Medical Textiles

1st Feb 2023

Berry, a leader in the design, development, and production of patient-centred healthcare solutions, will begin production at its new manufacturing facility and healthcare centre of excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, India as early as April 2023. The Greenfield expansion project will create local jobs and improve global access to health products.

20th Jan 2023

US’ Standard Textile, a leader in the healthcare and hospitality textile markets, has announced Alex Heiman will assume the role of president. Heiman succeeds his father, Gary Heiman, as the fourth-generation president of Standard Textile. Gary Heiman continues a leadership role at Standard Textile as chairman and chief executive officer.

30th Dec 2022

Jehong Medical Products (BD) Co Ltd, a China-based company, is setting up a new factory in the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Economic Zone in Chattogram to double its monthly production capacity to around 8 lakh pieces. The new factory will come up on an area of 21,000 sq ft is expected to start operation by the end of next year.

17th Nov 2022

Medline, a medical product distributor, and US’ Hologenix, a materials science innovator, have unveiled a line of Curad Performance Series orthopaedic products powered by Celliant infrared technology. Celliant is a science-backed infrared (IR) technology that improves health and wellness by promoting restful sleep and enhancing performance and recovery.

13th Nov 2022

Germany’s BASF has launched orthopaedic insoles with Elastollan, BASF's thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The TPU is used as a filament by the duro3D paver in the production of individual shoe insoles using 3D printing processes. In sole applications, the material is characterised above all by its excellent vibration damping and resilience.

5th Nov 2022

Swiss Precision, US’ apparel brand for the medical scrub, uniform, and accessories markets, have unveiled their StartEngine Crowdfunding campaign. It offers investors opportunities to disrupt the medical scrub, uniform, and accessories markets with Swiss Precision’s copper + natural patented materials, which kills or slows the spread of microorganisms.

4th Nov 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has collaborated with multinational tech company 3M to develop a technique to drastically reduce the amount of energy required for melt blowing the materials needed in N95 masks and other applications. Many of the materials in these masks are produced by a technique called melt blowing.

29th Oct 2022

Freudenberg Performance Materials has launched an elastic variant of its flexible superabsorbers for modern wound dressings. Freudenberg will be debuting the elastic superabsorbers at Compamed 2022 in Dusseldorf. The superabsorbers increase the comfort level of patients as well as enable longer wear time, thus reducing the frequency of dressing changes.

28th Oct 2022

US’ Sensoria Health and Padula Rehabilitation Technologies have announced their collaboration to develop NeurOpTrek, the first and only truly wearable solution for Risk of Fall (ROF) assessment to prevent and rehabilitate patients from fall injuries. Sensoria Health is a developer of wearable remote patient monitoring and artificial intelligence...