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Mirandola Biomedical District | |
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Industrial district | |
| Distretto biomedicale di Mirandola | |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Emilia-Romagna |
| Province | Modena |
| Core city | Mirandola |
| Municipalities | List
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| Time zone | UTC+1 (Central European) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
The Mirandola Biomedical District (Italian: Distretto biomedicale di Mirandola)[1] is an industrial district in the biomedical engineering, specialised in the production of medical devices such as equipment and disposable products for therapeutic applications, located in the Mirandola area and in some neighbouring municipalities such as Medolla, Concordia sulla Secchia, Cavezzo, San Felice sul Panaro, San Possidonio, San Prospero, and Poggio Rusco.[2]
The Mirandola Biomedical District is considered the most important in the sector in Europe and third in the world, after Minneapolis and Los Angeles in the United States of America[3] for this reason the area is called as the 'Italian Silicon Valley of biomedicals'.[4]
In the 1970s, the Mirandola area saw a great influx of industry in the biomedical field, witnessing the birth of numerous companies specialising in the production of disposable biomedical devices: the area of great industrial density that was coming to life became the soul of the current biomedical district, which is still expanding. During the eighties and nineties, the number of companies in the area grew considerably, bringing production specialisation to very high levels.
In 2012, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the first biomedical company, a museum specialising in the history and early products of Mirandola Biomedical District has been set up in the city's historic centre.
The numerous companies in the district now cater for a very wide range of healthcare areas, including haemodialysis, cardiac surgery, anesthesia e intensive care medicine, apheresis e plasmapheresis, blood transfusion, nutrition, gynaecology. The production specialisation of the companies in the Mirandola Biomedical District concerns disposable plastic products for medical use and equipment for dialysis, cardiac surgery, transfusion and other healthcare applications. The production of disposables accounts for more than 80% of the total, while biomedical equipment accounts for 13%. The district produces both finished products and the components needed to make disposables.
- ^ Distretto industriale entry (in Italian) in the Enciclopedia italiana
- ^ "Distretto Biomedicale Mirandolese" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
- ^ "Biomedicale, che ripresa!". Borsa Italiana. 2016-10-04. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- ^ Antonio Mascolo (2012-05-29). "Mirandola, la Silicon Valley d'Italia". La Repubblica. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.