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Swedish moulding company Nolato gains a foothold in the US medical market with the acquisition of Contour Plastics. 27 July 2010

German holding company Farmar is planning to set up a 150m unit a year disposable syringe facility in the Omsk region of Siberia. 27 July 2010

The Asia Pacific medical devices market will experience a compound annual growth rate of 10.2% between 2009 and 2012, making the sector worth a massive $62.3bn (€51bn), according to a new report 29 June 2010

The value of the global market for home medical equipment is expected to be $17.7bn (€14.8bn) in 2010, according to US-based BCC Research 8 June 2010

Gerresheimer, of Regensburg in Germany, has designed a lancing unit that automates and eases operation of a new generation of blood sugar measurement devices for a customer in the medical diagnostics sector 8 June 2010

Colour specialists Clariant are set to unveil a new brand medical and pharmaceutical masterabatches and compounds to the plastics industry at this year’s K show in Germany 4 June 2010

The US market for plastic healthcare packaging is expected to reach 3.8 billion pounds (1.7 million tonnes) of products in 2010, according to BCC Research 25 May 2010

Plas-Tech, a US-based moulder of medical devices, says it is replacing glass in its single-dose syringes for cosmetic facial drug treatments, with the Topas cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) from Topas Advanced Polymers 22 April 2010

The investment in the Irish medical device maker is the latest in a string of medical technology investments by the family-owned German industrial group. 7 April 2010

Many of the changes enacted in the contentious health care bill - and the companion reconciliation act that amended it, paving the way for President Barack Obama to sign the measure into law March 23 - won’t go into effect until 2013 or 2014 26 March 2010

Chemical company Eastman has commissioned a Californian design company to show the benefits of its BPA-free Tritan grade in the medical sector in a new double-dose cup 23 March 2010

Auxiliary equipment supplier Conair has designed a new range of flood-cooling tanks especially for medical tubing manufacturers 16 March 2010

Packaging group Gerresheimer has created a new type of high barrier vial for medical applications by layering cyclic olefin polymer (COP) with polyamide 12 March 2010

The investment will double the capacity of its MediTech injection moulding and cleanroom assembly operation at Hörby in Sweden. 2 March 2010

Colour specialist Clariant Masterbatches is providing polyamide 6/6 for a new range of very small, flesh tone-coloured hearing aids 26 February 2010

• Reckitt Benckiser buys SSL International 27 July 2010
• Amcor sells Tobepal units to Constantia Flexibles 27 July 2010
• US researchers design shape-shifting polymers 27 July 2010
• Nolato grows in US with Contour acquisition 27 July 2010
• Invista considers sale of US PET resins business 27 July 2010

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