To ensure the quality of their valves, Festo AG & Co. KG conducts comprehensive functional and durability tests across all their product lines. However, in order for the highly sensitive measuring devices to achieve the required accuracy of ± 5-7 µm, only minimal temperature and humidity fluctuation…

By acquiring Switzerland-based Sensile Medical AG in July this year, Gerresheimer is expanding its business model to become an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for drug delivery platforms with digital and electronic capabilities. Sensile Medical develops innovative drug delivery products and pl…

Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, has launched a completely flexible continuous pharma extrusion system suitable for research and development, as well as for small-scale production. This ZSK 18 MEGAlab extruder fulfills the requirements for both wet extrusion and hot melt extrusion (HME) processes…

Lab Innovations, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry, has announced the programme for its 2018 open conference streams, complementing its showcase of lab products, technologies and services. The laboratory industry is constantly evolving with new technologies, regulations a…

Little brother’s got some moves: OHB System AG, a subsidiary of listed space and technology company OHB SE, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA, has designed a mobile and certified mini clean-room cover for protecting particularly sensitive products i…

During Fakuma WINDSOR demonstrates unusual entrepreneurial diversity with three exhibits: The SD300SV from FCS further expands the company’s offer of servohydraulic injection moulding machines (IMM). Adjacent to it, a fully electric J100ADS from JSW works with an actuator mould for medical device ap…

Double premiere for Höcker GmbH. For the first time, the company will present itself from September 30 to October 3, 2018, at the Meatexpo in Kortrijk, Belgium. The manufacturer of high-quality products for the meat and food industry as well as pharmaceuticals will be represented on-site by Lucas Ha…

With their exposed cannulas, used syringes are a source of risk at physicians’ surgeries, laboratories, and hospitals the world over. Although existing needle protection systems reduce the risk of injury for the end user, they are more complex for pharma companies to fill and must be handled by medi…

Some 80 companies will be presenting their products and services at Cleanzone on 23 and 24 October 2018 in Frankfurt am Main (2017: 64 exhibitors). 34 percent more exhibition space has been booked than at the previous event, and nearly one third of trade visitors are coming to Frankfurt from abroad…

Family businesses in the Bavarian Oberland – these are not only rural farms and guesthouses. Of course, there are many around Lake Kochel. Less obvious is that the company "DITTEL Engineering" is also based here, a business that has been dealing with high technology for 25 years. Since the company's…