Medical Plastics News attended OGP’s Metrology Day where Colby Finn, VP of marketing and Dave O’Connor, director of sales and marketing, OGP, highlight why non-contact measuring is optimal for medical plastics.
Is any job safe from the impact of artificial intelligence? According to a study on the impact of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market even specialist roles run the risk of being impacted by AI-based automation.
Over 40 MPs and Peers have rallied behind an open letter urging the Government to protect the production of medical device, equipment and healthcare products in the UK, or else risk essential items being removed from supply.
Steven Neill, chief technology officer at NIRI looks at the development of biopolymer technology and highlights the prototype-scale laboratory facilities helping to make novel materials commercially viable, with lower financial risk.
Medical Plastics News spoke to Kevin LaDow, medical products manager USA West, Junkosha, about the company’s peelable heat shrink tubing and PTFE liners.
The first prototyping device entered the market in the 1980s, making large-scale 3D printing feasible. This revolutionised many industries, Jasleen Kaur explains the importance of 3D printing in healthcare.
The Prime Minister’s recent boast that the UK will be a science and technology ‘superpower’ by the end of the decade was met with some measure of seriousness. Ivor Campbell discusses the future of life sciences in the UK.
