New approach to medical device
product
development
in Brescia

  • Medical device companies in Brescia and the University of Brescia collaborate to offer product development services

  • Vertically integrated production technologies shorten design iteration cycles and reduce costs

  • Transparent access to production technologies preserves future supply chain options

  • Accelerate innovation through knowledge sharing within a collaborative medical device ecosystem

Why Brescia

Building on its entrepreneurial and academic heritage, Brescia is a well established center of innovation.

Recent medical inventions coming from Brescia include Isinnova’s retrofitting of snorkeling masks into ventilators for Covid patients and 3D printed leg prostheses for persons who lost a lower limb in the war in the Ukraine.  Meanwhile, Antares Vision is driving digitalization of products and supply chains with new data management solutions.  Prominent catheter system innovations from Brescia include the first commercial drug eluting angioplasty balloon, the first below the knee stent and the first proximal carotid artery protection catheter.

MedInBrix taps the know-how and technologies that drove and grew out of these and other innovations to create service solutions for our customers.

Collaborative ecosystem

MedInBrix partner companies and academic institutions co-create service solutions and openly share know-how to support customers with product development.

Contributions from individual partners are organized into integrated services provided through MedInBrix. External suppliers complement in-house capabilities.

MedInBrix was founded in June 2023 and today partner companies collaborate to provide contract services.

The MedInBrix network will grow through the engagement of additional partners.

Addressing a market gap

Market trend

Consolidation in the medical device services industry is limiting supply chain options for start-ups

Start-up needs

The collaborative ecosystem in Brescia creates service solutions tailored to the needs of start-ups

Value

Accelerated product development and supply chain flexibility for innovators

Commitment

Customers and MedInBrix share a common mission and incentives

Understanding needs of start-ups

“Access to vertically integrated production technologies shortens design iteration cycles and creates better first generation products.”
— Andrea Venturelli, Founder Invatec
“Providing customers and their future contract manufacturers full access to production processes makes 1:1 production transfers a reality and preserves supply chain options during commercialization.”
— Martin Schachenmayr, Managing Director

MedInBrix and our partners offer a broad range of services and technologies for the development and manufacture of catheter-based medical devices

Our services

Product development

  • Rapid prototyping

  • Design development

  • Manufacturing process development

  • Verification and simulated use testing

  • Regulatory submission and IP documentation

  • Project management

Tooling

  • Silicone molding, coating and bonding

  • Metal and polymer 3D printing

  • Electropolishing

  • Pin and die manufacture (extrusion)

  • Balloon tooling

Component manufacture

  • Extrusion (multilayer, -lumen)

  • Balloon forming (dipping and blowing)

  • Braid and coil manufacture

  • Metal and polymer laser cutting and welding

  • Nitinol heat treatment

  • Electropolishing

Assembly

  • Clean room assembly (ISO 13485)

  • Injection/over- molding

  • Printing (ink and laser)

  • Handle manufacture

  • Soldering and point welding

  • UV and epoxy gluing

  • Tip forming

  • Lamination

  • Shape setting

  • Swaging (marker band fixation)

  • Balloon folding

  • Pouch sealing

  • Packaging