I am looking for units that use bibag and gambro or braun cartriges. I have developed a reuseable container for bicarb and the cost is about 90% less than origanal product.
Posts: 47 | Location: Johannesburg South Africa | Registered: 04 June 1999
Originally posted by Kevin: I am looking for units that use bibag and gambro or braun cartriges. I have developed a reuseable container for bicarb and the cost is about 90% less than origanal product.
Posts: 4 | Location: Kansas City, KS USA | Registered: 23 October 2003
Hi Guys, Over here in the UK the average price for a Bicart is now as low as $2.75. These are being sold mainly by Sorin but most EU manufacturers are in that sort of ball park. We had one company selling a re-fillable Bicart but they gave up when it became un-economic in terms of disinfection and staffing to refill. What sort of prices are you paying over there?
Hi Kevin and Dennis, That price is just incredible when you think the manufacturing costs must be in the region of a dollar. What is RSA ? Do bicarts have to be FDA approved and if so would the re-use container have to be FDA approved as well, or is there a way round it? We could get companies in Europe to row a boat over the Atlantic for $12 per bicart !!
Hi UKtech RSA=South Africa bicart=R80 reuse bicart should not be FDA approved as the bicarb that u use is the same as you find in the manufactures cart.
Posts: 47 | Location: Johannesburg South Africa | Registered: 04 June 1999
Other companies have tried but were unable to get around Gambro's patents for the Bi-Cart. The ORIGINAL bi-cart had a removable lid which in essence made it "re-usable", that patent is probably still valid.
Chuck
Posts: 1095 | Location: Baltimore, MD USA | Registered: 24 October 2001
