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US-based Chronos Imaging sets up X-ray Tube facility at Andhra Med Tech Zone
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Shardul Nautyal, Mumbai
February 01 , 2019
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US-based company Chronos Imaging which focuses on development,
manufacturing and distribution of diagnostic imaging medical devices has
recently set up an X-ray Tube facility at India's first medical device
park – Andhra Med Tech Zone (AMTZ), Visakhapatnam. The company is
planning to invest more on such facilities.
Equipped with world
class equipment sourced from internationally leading firms, the X-ray
Tube facility at AMTZ has a team of highly qualified and experienced
scientists, engineers and physicists working meticulously on this
national project.
Initially, X-ray tube will be manufactured
with its assembly for both general radiography and CT machines by 2020
from the facility established at AMTZ. Further this facility would help
to manufacture customised X-ray Tube for the dedicated machines used in
various science, engineering, paramedical and other industries namely-
nano-technology, veterinary, pharmacology, agro, metallurgy, space and
electronics.
AMTZ has also evinced interest from a major player
in the field of energy - Energy Vault, an Idealab company that develops
renewable energy storage products. The company brings an experience of
over 30 years in technology innovation and turning ideas into practical
and scalable solutions. Energy vault has also proposed to bring its
expertise to set up renewable energy facility at AMTZ
Chronos
Imaging represented by Robert Piconi and Energy Vault represented by
Bill Gross held discussions regarding future investments with Dr
Jitendar Sharma, MD & CEO, AMTZ and Special Chief Secretary Dr
Poonam Malakondiah in the presence of Information Technology (IT)
minister of Andhra Pradesh Sri Nara Lokesh during the three-day World
Economic Forum summit which was held at Davos-Klosters, Switzerland from
22 January to 25 January 2019.
Kalam Institute of Health
Technology (KIHT), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
and Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata have
also collaborated at AMTZ, Visakhapatnam to reduce import dependency in
the biomedical implant and biomaterial sector.
As part of the
collaboration, KIHT will facilitate innovations of CSIR-CGCRI using its
e-Auction portal where interested Indian manufacturers can bid for their
technologies and start indigenous manufacturing.
CSIR-CGCRI is a
national lab which carries out applied research in the fields of bio
active coating for orthopaedic and dental application, ceramic based hip
joint prostheses and hydroxyapatite based integrated orbital implants.
As of today glass and ceramics are widely used in bio-implants.
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