MPN’s most read stories of the festive season

As the festive season is drawing ever closer to its gift-wrapped climax we look at our most read stories of the Christmas period

DuPont and Dow merger 'a game changer'

This article covered the news that Dow Chemical Company and DuPont are to merge. The new company, which will be called DowDuPont, will split into three independent, publicly traded companies in the areas of agriculture, materials science and speciality products. 

To read this article click here.

From project to production: nicotine therapy spray

Phillips-Medisize has used its expertise to create a nicotine therapy spray device. This article looks at the project, which used automatic assembly through indexing machines, to create a nicotine therapy spray that starts to act in 60 seconds.

To read this article click here.

In Profile: Tom Kinisky, president and CEO, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics

In this interview with MPN, Tom Kinisky, president and CEO, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics explained what is so special about the company’s manufacturing capabilities for the medical sector.

To read this interview click here.

Have I got (medical plastics) news for you

In this feature we challenged our readers to take the MPN quiz and see if they were an Xmas star or something of a scrooge when it came to knowing what was going on in the 2015 medical plastics world.

To take this quiz click here.

Almost 100,000 pacemakers recalled by Medtronic

At the beginning of December Medtronic identified a problem related to long-term battery performance in its InSync III pacemakers. This article covered the news that although only 30 devices worldwide had been impacted by a battery issue Medtronic had to release a recall for 96,000 devices.

To read this story click here.