Brinter launches new medical printing heads with Puredyne

New precision in multimaterial 3D bioprinting solutions

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Brinter launches new medical printing heads with Puredyne to enable nearly zero dead volume and cut waste.

Turku, Finland – On 1 March 2022, Finnish bioprinting startup Brinter announced the release of its new extrusion-based Visco Biomedical print head for its Brinter bioprinters. The new modular print heads enable nearly zero dead volume, meaning that expensive medical grade material waste is cut to a minimal level.

The heads mean more material diversity for dispensing, repeatability with a continuous and precise printing process and zero cross-contamination due to the use of a single cartridge per material. Due to the dispensing geometry, a constant volume per revolution is always conveyed and precisely applied, meaning almost zero dead volume can be achieved. The programmable suck-back ensures clean start and finish points.

“The release of this print head means that basic requirements towards Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are met, for example, due to no cross-contamination with the use of a single cartridge per material, used together with the disinfecting blue light module we published in December. Likewise, researchers, pharma industry, and universities benefit from the repeatability of printing results being increased due to continuous and precise printing processes,” says Tomi Kalpio, chief executive officer of Brinter.

“The practical applications of the technology align with Brinter’s vision to improve our quality of life by shortening and enhancing the productivity of the scientific discovery process and bio-manufacturing. This pushes forward the ambition of printing human spare parts such as hearts and kidneys, as well as more personalized treatment through cancer research and drug testing,” he continues.

Brinter’s flagship model Brinter One is a modular bioprinter that is able to print multi-material and highly complex tissue structures in 3D, providing all the basic features needed for bioprinting. The device can print both stiff and soft materials, including but not limited to liquids and hydrogels with living cells, bio-paste, metal with binder material, and plastic while being easy to pack up and set up in a different lab or cleanroom in minutes.

Visco Bio was launched in close collaboration with Puredyne who provided the innovative market technology. “Brinter is an innovative and strong partner for us, with whom we already have had a close relationship for some years. The Puredyne print head with its involved progressive cavity technology enables a totally new precision in extrusion-based bioprinting. Moreover, our solution gives the operator the required process and material flexibility in the handling of low to high viscosity biomaterials,” says Felix Gruber, Business Development manager at Puredyne.

Customers of Brinter include bio and pharmaceutical companies like Nanoform, as well as research organizations like VTT, BEST group at the University of Glasgow, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, the University of Oulu, University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Tampere University, and the University of Helsinki.

Last month, Brinter announced its cooperation with LED Tailor to introduce a new disinfecting blue light feature embedded in its multi-material 3D bioprinting solution. The system enables the safe production of e.g. tissue models and drugs, and minimizes the need for separate cleanrooms, making bioprinters more portable and safe.

To date, Brinter is currently active in over 10 countries, including the USA, Germany, India, and the UK. The company recently launched its new entry-level model, Brinter Core to make bioprinting more affordable and accessible to researchers and manufacturers for uses that range from personalized drugs to human spare parts.

2023 promises an interesting ride for print in India

Indian Printer and Publisher founded in 1979 is the oldest B2B trade publication in the multi-platform and multi-channel IPPGroup. While the print and packaging industries have been resilient in the past 33 months since the pandemic lockdown of 25 March 2020, the commercial printing and newspaper industries have yet to recover their pre-Covid trajectory.

The fragmented commercial printing industry faces substantial challenges as does the newspaper industry. While digital short-run printing and the signage industry seem to be recovering a bit faster, ultimately their growth will also be moderated by the progress of the overall economy. On the other hand book printing exports are doing well but they too face several supply-chain and logistics challenges.

The price of publication papers including newsprint has been high in the past year while availability is diminished by several mills shutting down their publication paper and newsprint machines in the past four years. Indian paper mills are also exporting many types of paper and have raised prices for Indian printers. To some extent, this has helped in the recovery of the digital printing industry with its on-demand short-run and low-wastage paradigm.

Ultimately digital print and other digital channels will help print grow in a country where we are still far behind in our paper and print consumption and where digital is a leapfrog technology that will only increase the demand for print in the foreseeable future. For instance, there is no alternative to a rise in textbook consumption but this segment will only reach normality in the next financial year beginning on 1 April 2023.

Thus while the new normal is a moving target and many commercial printers look to diversification, we believe that our target audiences may shift and change. Like them, we will also have to adapt with agility to keep up with their business and technical information needs.

Our 2023 media kit is ready, and it is the right time to take stock and reconnect with your potential markets and customers. Print is the glue for the growth of liberal education, new industry, and an emerging economy. We seek your participation in what promises to be an interesting ride.

– Naresh Khanna

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