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...Alphabet; Amgen; BP; Centene; Ecolab; Eli Lilly; Fiserv; General Electric; HSBC; Illumina; Marsh & McLennan Companies; Microsoft; Mondelez International; Roper Industries; Sherwin-Williams; Starbucks; Stryker...
..., Texas Instruments, UPS, Vale, Visa, Waste Management, Focusrite and PZ Cussons....
...UBS Wednesday Abbott; ADP; Anthem; Apple; AT&T; Blackstone; Boeing; Crown Castle; International Edwards; Lifesciences; Facebook; Lam Research; Las Vegas Sands; Norfolk Southern Progressive; ServiceNow; Stryker...
...First, we reported on its early stage discussions with a US company called NuVasive that made instruments for spinal surgery....
...For now, the future is machines performing medical procedures, with Intuitive Surgical and Stryker leading the way....
...Mako Surgical was bought by medical equipment maker Stryker for $1.65bn in 2013....
...In other kinds of 3D printers, layers of powder are fused using lasers to create components that may end up in anything from boat seats to optical instruments....
...Leading the mid-cap risers, Oxford Instruments jumped 14 per cent to 960p after its interim results beat forecasts....
...Renishaw , the precision instrument maker, gained 10.7 per cent to £14.10 as a bid rumour did the rounds....
...Stryker was set up in 1941 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, by Homer Stryker, a surgeon-cum-inventor who was born in a nearby farming community....
...That marked a shift into “see and treat” instruments that allow the surgeon to view as well as cut, often with a single instrument....
...S&N, which also makes treatments for wounds and instruments for keyhole surgery, said pre-tax profits rose from $258m to $289m (£142m) in the three months to June 30 as sales increased from $1.3bn to $1.5bn...
...Spectris, the maker of precision instruments, fell 2.2 per cent to 672½p on news that Steve Hare, finance director, was leaving the company to join Invensys, up 4.4 per cent at 24p....
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