The American company Conductive Technologies will present itself for the European market at the MEDICA fair in Dusseldorf, 20-23 November. Since the late-1990s, the company has been a US-market-leading manufacturer of disposable biosensors for medical diagnostics and other applications. The technology has developed rapidly in recent years in response to growing demand for faster, safer, easy-to-use and inexpensive diagnostics. This analysis technique has also been adopted within the chemical and foodstuffs industries.

The sensor elements are screen-printed with conductive and non-conductive materials. Reagents can also be deposited on the sensors using printing or microdeposition techniques. Sensor elements are printed with exacting precision according to the performance specifications of the particular analysis application. When the sensor is exposed to the sample fluid, an electro-chemical process begins. In the presence of the detected substance the analysis instrument registers an electrochemical signal. Biosensors can be used both in stationary analysis equipment in laboratories and in small, handheld personal devices. The sensor is disposable, therefore hygienic and always reliable.

Conductive Technologies has built up a production line that produces many hundreds of millions of entities for delivery to major instrument manufacturers in the USA yearly. Each sensor type is developed in close co-operation with the customer. The company has a team of qualified scientists and engineers who, together with the customer’s specialists, experiment to determine which electronic sensor element is most appropriate with respect to reliability, cost effectiveness, ease of use and, of course, mass production, which is essential for maintaining a low cost.

Biosensors facilitate rapid diagnosis, enabling medical staff to act quickly in the event of acute illness. The technology for mass producing biosensors has made this simplified analysis procedure widely available at a low cost, thus helping to free value healthcare resources. This need is evident throughout the world.

In Europe, Conductive Technologies’ sensors are already used in many American-made analytical devices. Since the company is receiving an increasing number of enquiries from European instrument manufacturers, it has decided to establish a subsidiary in Europe.

Fabricon AB, in Angelholm, Sweden, will represent the American parent company Conductive Technologies and provide interested companies in Europe with information.