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Another site for the Magnetic Resonance Outcome (MRO) study in Europe (07/06/2023)
Overseen by Professor Dixon and Dr Kulkarni, the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh is joining the effort to evaluate the ClearCoast™ MRI system as another European site. The study was launched in June 2021 with its first site in Frankfurt am Main headed by Professor Dr. Marc Thill. The ClearCoast™ MRI system enables the intraoperative assessment of the surgical margin during breast-conserving surgery. This makes it possible to identify…
University Hospital of North Tees buys PathLite Compact systems (03/02/2023)
The University Hospital of North Tees has purchased two PathLite Compact systems for macro imaging to improve its Cellular Pathology digital operations. pfm medical UK, as the distributor for Cirdan UK, not only delivered the systems but also provided training on the system. One member of the University Hospital of North Tees stated that 'Installation was easy and smooth, with excellent communication. The training from pfm[medical] was really…
Innovation: combining the advantages of meshes and surgical sutures (07/14/2022)
pfm medical ag is expanding its product portfolio to include DURAMESH™ Suturable Mesh. This innovative suturable mesh combines the advantages of mesh reconstruction with the accurate placement of surgical sutures for the first time. DURAMESH™ can replace surgical sutures when high forces need to be transferred. While meshes have the advantage of distributing forces over a large area and transferring the associated high forces, sutures have the…
Financial performance in 2021: Core business sees continued growth despite Covid restrictions (07/13/2022)
The 2021 reporting period was again dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions. This had varying effects on the individual companies of the pfmmedical group. While pfm medical tpm gmbh was severely impacted by the measures, revenue in China actually exceeded expectations by growing almost 40 per cent on the previous year. Overall revenue grew by EUR 7.9 m (+6.6 per cent), without accounting for the one-off additional…
Happy anniversary – pfmmedical celebrates 50 years of success (01/19/2022)
Just before Christmas in 1971, a company called pfm Plastik für die Medizin GmbH came into being. Now called pfm medical ag, it has been growing ever since – while the company still has the same head office in Cologne, it now boasts production facilities and sales outlets at twelve locations in eight countries around the world. Operating on an international scale and yet still family owned, this medium-sized company employs around 660 people and…
