we know Merck have a smaller membrane manufacturing facility in Ireland and are building a new huge factory in the US.
"We just broke ground on our state-of-the-art, €115 million lateral flow membrane production facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, increasing our global production capacity for these critical products. Once it is fully operational, we will supply enough membrane for customers around the world to create more than one billion rapid diagnostic tests per year."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matt...tm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktopwe are involved in the Merck POC development workshop 2023 in Ireland and the IVD conference in Rome
I find it interesting who is presenting for Merck on POC at the IVD event.
Lateral Flow assay Development Services Eileen Hannigan, Merck, Ireland
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eileen-hannigan-4b246a2b/?originalSubdomain=iescientific director global assay development services Merck life science, county cork Ireland
was interviewed in this article
https://www.selectscience.net/edito...st-line-of-defense-in-a-pandemic/?artID=54242"The team is currently focused on resolving assay preparation challenges such as improving test sensitivity
by using europium in place of colloidal particles, preventing detection failures by reducing buffer propensity to denature proteins of interest and developing reference tests to reliably measure kit performance."
what is Ian presenting
"Develop Lateral Flow Assays using High-Performing Anteobind activated
Estapor Europium Microspheres"most of the Merck employees in that article are very high ranking and presented with Charlie.
https://www.axxin.com/files/30604-RPOC Flyer with Agenda-MSIG-WEB.pdfMichael Moehlenbrock - Immunoassay Business Development Specialist at MilliporeSigma
Shawn Gaskell - Head of Product Management, Diagnostic Manufacturing Materials at MilliporeSigma
Michael Mansfield - Applications Development Scientist at EMD Millipore Corporation
Katie O'brien - Research And Development Scientist at Merck Group, previously Head of Rapid Immunoassay development, cork, Ireland
Terri Borree - senior portofolio manager
Anteotech have been thick with Merck in many workshops, seminars and conferences discussing using High-Performing Anteobind activated Estapor Europium Microspheres.
when the US membrane factory comes to production with their billion volume, wonder if Anteotech will be a partner with them ??? plenty of breadcrumbs to say maybe !!!
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