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ITALY
Emilia – Romagna :
Excellence for SMEs
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One
of the 20 Italian regions, Emilia-Romagna,
situated in the central-northern part of Italy, in
the heart of the most industrialized area of the
country. The small and medium size enterprises are
the driving force behind the regional economy, and
they have boosted an extra ordinary diffusion of
wealth throughout the territory. The oranization
like Sprint Emilia-Romagna and CONSOBIOMED working
for this region, has lead its growth globally. |
Emilia –Romagna is
situated in the central northern part of Italy, in the
heart of the most industrialized area of the country.
The efficient network of infrastructures and the
strategic geographical position make Emilia-Romagna an
important commercial node linked to all the Italian
cities and the main European cities. The small and
medium size enterprises (SME) are the driving force of
the economy and have given rise to an extra ordinary
diffusion of the wealth over the whole of the regional
territory.Knowledge, research and innovation are key
factors for the economic and productive development of
the region.
The Biomedical
Industry
It is field of activity
destine to acquire increasingly greater importance.
The construction of orthopaedic and prosthesis in the
Bologna area and the biomedical district in the
province of Modena are good examples: the centre
developed in the Mirandola district has, in fact,
about 70 companies with 3600 workers, developing sales
of more than 500 million Euro, with an export quota of
over 60%. The really strong point of the system is a
network of University hospitals. In fact, the region
has the most model transplant centres in Italy: over
10% of Italian liver transplants are carried out in
Bologna and Modena. In 2004, with 43 operations (more
than 12% of the national total), the heart transplant
centre in the capital of Emilia-Romagna is the second
of Italy. The pharmaceutical sector is also strong,
with giants of the calibre of Alfa Wassermann that
have been operating in the territory for decades.
Sprint
Emilia-Romagna
This is the name given
to the region department for the Internationalization
of companies, sponsored by the Emilia-Romagna region ,
by the ministry of productive activities, by ICE (the
Foreign Trade Institute), by SIMEST (Italian Society
for Companies Abroad) and by SACE (Foreign Trade
Insurance Services), whose purpose is to provide a
valid operational instrument in support of small and
medium sized enterprises that wish to enter Foreign
Markets. More information is available on the website:
http://www.sprint-er.it . The contacts detail : Sprint
Emilia-Romagna, Viale Aldo Moro 44, 40127 Bologna -
Italy(email:www.info@sprint-er.it), Phone
No.:0039-051-6396200, Fax : 0039-051-6396512
Mirandola Medical
District, Italy
Mirandola is an industrial
and agricultural town 30 kilometers north from Modena.
Since 1964, in Mirandola a thriving biomedical
industrial district has been developing. At first its
industries specialized in the production of plastic
disposables products for hemodialysis, plasmapheresis,
transfusion and infusion therapies; afterwards, in the
design and production of the machines used for the
above mentioned technologies.
The Modenese have
called this district “The Plastic Valley” making a
comparison, may be a little bit hazardous, with the
Californian “Silicon Valley”. Different multinational
and groups, the Didco, Bellco, Sorin, Gambro, Tyco
Mallinckrodt, Fresenius, B.Braul and others, attracted
by the outstanding technological background that the
district offered, have installed or brought companies
in this area contributing to the development on this
industrial field. During the last decades, the largest
industrial groups grew, but there has also been large
diffusion of this specific kind of production which
has brought to the birth and their development of many
small biomedical companies.
CONSOBIOMED
Consobiomed is a
consortium founded at the end of 1990 which gathers a
lot of these companies. It has been developed to
promote the implementation of all quality standards
and European rules (e.g.MDD 93/42/EEC) in all
associated firms. It also offers support and
coordination activities for the associates to
strengthen their market exchanges.More information is
available on its website: www.consobimed.it (Email:-
info@consobimed.it)
Services on export
offered by CONSOBIOMED are like national &
international trade shows, promotion and organization
of visits/meetings for foreign guests to Italy,
management of relationships with official entities,
consultancy ,training courses and assists in
validation, re-validation , and routine controls
relevant to clean room, laminar flow hood and
sterisation processes.
Companies currently
associated to Consobiomed , together can supply
services and develop a wide range of medical devices
and accessories such as:
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Production and
development of disposable medical devices
(Anesthesia, Cardiosurgery, Gynaecology,
Hemodialysis, Hemofiltration, Infusion, Medication
Kit, Transfusion, Radiology, Urology, Mesotherapy,
Sutures for cardiovascular surgeries, Irrigation
sets, Generic & Dressing kits, Polysulfone
hemofilters).
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Assembly of medical
products in ISO 7 or ISO 8 class clean rooms
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Paper and plastic
film pouches & blisters packaging
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ETO & Beta ray
sterilization
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Custom made moulds
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Moulded components
and tubings
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Equipment for
medical products assembly and testing
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Equipment of cardio
surgery and intensive care
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Machines for
urodynamics, cavernosometry, gastrointestinal
motility, vestibology and rhinomanometry.
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