As we get ready to celebrate Earth Day, Gordon Styles, founder and President of Star Rapid, shares thoughts on why manufacturers bear a responsibility to continuously improve services and efforts that benefit communities.
Protolabs (Maple Plain, MN) has purchased a new manufacturing facility in Brooklyn Park, MN, which will be used primarily for its CNC machining services. The company has also been recognized by Frost & Sullivan for operational excellence.
Materialise (Leuven, Belgium) is the first company in the world to develop software for 3D printing patient-specific anatomical models in compliance with FDA regulations.
The scarcity of medical supplies in poor parts of the world led a doctor to develop a low-cost, plastic stethoscope for clinical use. To his knowledge, it is the first open-source medical device that has been clinically validated.
