Spinal Tech

Four manufacturing companies announced that they have come together to form a strategic partnership aimed at reducing risk, ensuring a more streamlined supply chain for medical devices and reducing time-to-market by working together.

Tornier, a global orthopedic medical device company, announced that its president and CEO David Mowry and CFO Shawn McCormick will present at the Piper Jaffray 25th Annual Healthcare Conference.

San Francisco-based SpineGuard announced that its PediGuard platform has been adopted by spine surgeons in the department of orthopedic surgery at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan.

Minneapolis-based Medtronic announced its net earnings in the United States in the second quarter of fiscal year 2014 increased by 39 percent, from $646 million in the same quarter in 2012 to $902 million in 2013.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based ChoiceSpine announced the launch of TYPHOON Facet Screw Fixation System.

A unit of Limerick, Pa.-based Teleflex, a medical device company, will be relocating from Research Triangle Park, near Durham, N.C., to a new facility in Morrisville, N.C., according to a WRAL Tech Wire report.

OrthAlign, a privately held medical device company, announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration to market its ORTHALIGN PLUS system.

Mazor Robotics reported a net loss of $3.5 million during the third quarter of 2013 and ended the quarter with 30 Renaissance Systems installed in the United States and 56 installed globally.

The 100th robotic-control assisted partial knee replacement surgery with the Navio Orthopedic Surgical System from Minneapolis-based Blue Belt Technologies was performed this week.

Renovis Surgical received FDA clearance for its Tesera Standalone anterior lumbar interbody fusion cage.