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MTD Micro Molding opens expanded facility

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On May 27, MTD Micro Molding celebrated the grand opening of its expanded medical micro injection molding facility. The exterior of the expansion — which was completed last fall — effectively doubles the manufacturing space.

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The new interior space required a few more months to finalize details, more equipment, and move new cuttingedge machinery into place. The new space has been planned to ensure project flow and tracking, improving time and efficiency, which will help customers achieve faster speed-to-market.

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The company is continuing to respond to the demand for custom packaging and assembly services for micro medical components.

ENvizion Medical scoops innovation award for its feeding tube navigation system

Based on its recent analysis of the North American enteral feeding tube navigation market, Frost & Sullivan has recognized ENvizion Medical with the 2021 North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award.

Addressing the limitations of blind insertions and radiography-based adjuvant method, ENvizion Medical has developed a revolutionary feeding tube navigation system for accurate enteral tube placement in adult patients.

The FDA 510(k)-cleared ENvue system consists of an electro-mechanical device with embedded software and enteral feeding tubes. Leveraging the power of electromagnetic technology, the device creates a personalized body map of patients, allowing the medical staff to precisely place the tube in the stomach or small intestine through the oral or nasoenteric route.

“Unlike competing products, the ENvue system creatively displays a frontal, lateral, and axial view of the patients’ body contours simultaneously, while also highlighting the enteral feeding tube’s direction in real time,” said Neeraj Nitin Jadhav, Senior Research Analyst.

“Such real-time and multifaceted visualization and directional guidance provides increased confidence to healthcare support staff when inserting the feeding tube, eliminating the risk of placement in the patients’ lungs, and, therefore, associated complications.”

BTG Labs earns ISO 9001:2015 certification

BTG Labs, a specialist in industrial cleaning, surface treatment, and adhesion process control, has earned ISO 9001:2015 Certification. Internationally recognized as the standard for quality management, ISO 9001:2015 certification signals to customers that BTG Labs’ entire organization is committed to maintaining rigorous quality standards.

The company relies on stringent internal quality standards to develop innovative and one-of-akind surface quality and inspection equipment for manufacturers who are bonding, coating, painting, printing and cleaning.

“Process control is a critical part of the adhesive bonding and material cleaning success BTG Labs helps customers achieve. It was a natural fit for us to pursue ISO 9001:2015 Certification so that we would have a common framework and shared vocabulary for pursuing quality objectives,” said Mike Geren, Product Manager at BTG Labs.