Our editor Laura Hughes highlights her five must-read articles for this week.
1. DuPont announces new partnership
DuPont Transportation and Industrial, a business unit of DuPont, has partnered with Knowde, an online marketplace for polymers.
2. Davis-Standard reclaim extruders used to help ‘reduce the waste of resources across the entire value chain to zero’
ACI Plastics, a specialist in post-industrial plastics reprocessing, plans to install two Davis-Standard reclaim extruders at its new South Carolina plant in early 2020.
3. Medtronic publishes ventilator design specifications to aid rapid manufacturing
Medtronic is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett 560 (PB 560) ventilator, to enable participants across industries to evaluate options for rapid manufacturing to help doctors and patients dealing with Covid-19.
4. Healthtech company hopes patent will enable a 'digital and connected community'
Swedish healthtech company, Brighter, has been granted a patent for computer driven supervision of the health of portable medical devices in Indonesia.
5. Survey results suggest medtech companies are not ready for EU MDR
Software company Climedo Health has announced the results of its EU Medical Device Regulation (MDR) Readiness Survey.