Realizing the significance and the future potential of nuclear medicine, and that the attendant requirements for highly specialized hardware and devices would be expanding at a tremendous rate, the newly formed Medi-RayTM corporation proceeded to design and produce an entire product line of remarkably high performance products heretofore unequaled in nuclear medicine. Medi-RayTM produced specialized packaging, vial shields, syringe shields, shielded storage and waste containers and shielded, diagnostic radioisotope preparation kits.
With an eye towards the future, Medi-RayTM sought to ensure that the world of nuclear medicine advanced with confidence, and formed the Medi-RayTM Consulting Service to meet and overcome the growing challenges in the provision of professional training and guidance to personnel involved in the practical applications of radioisotopes, diagnostic radiology and therapeutic radiology.
Never before had anyone seen anything like Medi-RayTM's unique blending of metallurgical expertise with radiation physics; producing the safest radiation protection products and services ever seen... a true breakthrough in safety and performance. To this very day, Medi-RayTM remains truly unique. 
Medi-RayTM has been awarded numerous medical packaging awards for its many contributions to the safe transport and clinical handling of radiopharmaceuticals. In June of 1993 the DuPont/Merck partnership awarded Medi-RayTM their highest form of supplier recognition for Medi-RayTM's unrelenting pursuit of quality and service over the years.
Innovation, Medi-RayTM's reason for being, continues in earnest to afford our customers, our community and future generations the lead casting products they need at an unprecedented price while maximizing the safety of our environment.
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1970: Fluxless Aluminum Solder
1971: Medi-RayTM Electronics
1971: Nuclear Monitoring Badge Services
1972: Minitec(r) Technetium Generators
1973: Mobile X-Ray Shielding Platforms
1974: Disposable Syringe Shields
1975: Lead Container Recycling Program
1977: State-of-the-Art Quality Assurance
1980: Implanted Prosthetic Device Development
1983: Orthopedic Cast Padding
1985: HIV De-Contamination Pads
1988: Multi-Layered Desiccant Sponges
1993: Advanced Environmental Standards
1994: Safety Coatings for Lead
1994: Separate Recycling Facility
1995: Just-in-Time Inventory Facility
1998: Ergonomic Research and Development
2000: Designing for Automation
2001: Industrial Water Filtration Systems
2005: Production Advancements
2006: Introduction of Medical Radiation Accessories, Ltd.
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Medi-RayTM's continuing search for better alloy performance for highly specialized heat exchangers and other custom aluminum fabrications resulted in the metallurgists of Medi-RayTM developing and producing a unique, fluxless aluminum solder that allowed new levels of performance to be achieved for these products.
1971: Medi-RayTM Electronics
By the following year nuclear medicine had grown to the point where the need for professional expertise in the critical area of service for sensitive nuclear and x-ray medical instrumentation was becoming an issue. Medi-RayTM responded by forming the Medi-RayTM Electronics subsidiary, providing not only exceptional service but also a marketing resource for new and reconditioned nuclear and ultrasound instrumentation and equipment.
1971: Nuclear Monitoring Badge Services
With safety foremost in mind from the start, it became apparent that medical personnel needed to be more aware of potential exposure to radiation, so the team at Medi-RayTM took it upon themselves to develop and produce the TLD Badge Service, allowing nuclear medicine personnel to easily monitor and record radiation exposure levels.
1972: Minitec(r) Technetium Generators
1972 saw the start of a relationship with medical giant E. R. Squibb, co-developing with Medi-RayTM's unique expertise the very first Mintec(r) Technetium generator. This device's design is of such an advanced level that even today, thirty-four years later, it is still regarded as a premier design achievement.
1973: Mobile X-Ray Shielding Platforms
As x-ray instrumentation began to go mobile it afforded unprecedented x-ray diagnostic access to areas previously thought to be impossible to service. With this new mobility a new need arose to provide protection for the people involved in these novel locations; and once again Medi-RayTM met that need by developing, patenting and producing an x-ray shield platform specially designed for mobile x-ray applications.
1974: Disposable Syringe Shields
Nuclear medicine's efficacy, accessibility and practice continued to grow, bringing about in 1974 a growing concern over how best to deal with spent shielded syringes. The alliance of expert talent at Medi-RayTM quickly realized the importance of this issue and proceeded to conceive, develop, patent, and then produce a disposable shielded-syringe for applications in nuclear medicine. The multi-disciplinary approach afforded Medi-RayTM the ability to provide an innovative solution, relieving a growing burden on the community of nuclear medicine.
1975: Lead Container Recycling Program
With environmental issues concerning lead always an important consideration and with the continuing growth of nuclear medicine, by 1975 it was time to address the problem of increasing stockpiles of old, out of service, lead containers. Once again working with E. R. Squibb, Medi-RayTM's team developed the first Lead Container Recycling Program for spent Technetium generators under licenses issued by New York State. Shortly thereafter the Medi-RayTM program became the accepted environmental standard for the recycling of all used radiopharmaceutical shipping containers. Thirty-one years later in 2006, the program remains fully in effect with Medi-RayTM continuing to operate it; effectively safeguarding the public from the dangers of mishandled, spent radiopharmaceuticals, thus allowing radiopharmaceutical users and manufacturers to easily follow proper environmental procedures and safeguards. Medi-RayTM continues to be the acknowledged leader in lead container recycling.
1977: State-of-the-Art Quality Assurance
The Medi-RayTM team then turned its attention to being able to guarantee that the level of quality and performance it had achieved so far would never falter. Highly specialized, proprietary quality control procedures to test the solidity of lead castings and lead containers of all sizes were developed. These procedures were of a nature that required Medi-RayTM to design and construct its own custom quality control instrumentation and testing equipment. Still in active use today and under continuing development, these high-level procedures and tools are fully integrated, permanent parts of Medi-RayTM's Quality Assurance program. In turn they help Medi-RayTM offer state-of-the-art product at off-the-shelf pricing.
1980: Implanted Prosthetic Device Development
The continuing need to innovate took Medi-RayTM into new areas in 1980, when the team decided to assist physicians' and patients' needs in prosthetics. Medi-RayTM developed and produced patented orthopedic surgical instruments which finally enabled surgeons to properly and very precisely "size" implanted prosthetic devices to each individual patient, with rewarding improvements in those patients' quality of life as a satisfying result.
1983: Orthopedic Cast Padding
Another interesting project came about in 1983, when Medi-RayTM returned to the world of orthopedics, this time developing production machinery designed to produce patented orthopedic cast padding for fiberglass casts. The level of performance of this padding has led to it being used in sports wraps and for military applications as a combat padding material.
1985: HIV De-Contamination Pads
Responding to the needs of hospital facilities in the on-going fight against HIV, Medi-RayTM developed custom production machinery designed to produce HIV decontamination cleansing pads in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
1988: Multi-Layered Desiccant Sponges
Medi-RayTM looked for solutions to potential difficulties in its entire process once again, and research and development turned to shipping in 1988, when an R & D program was instituted to deal with the absorption of radioactive pharmaceuticals while they were in shipment. By the latter part of the year, this development program had created a breakthrough, multi-layered desiccant sponge material that met the stringent approval requirements set by Medi-RayTM's health physicists. This remarkable desiccant material was quickly adopted and utilized as an important safety component in Medi-RayTM's various radiopharmaceutical packaging systems.
1993: Advanced Environmental Standards
Our environmental engineers decided in 1993 to raise the bar of Medi-RayTM safety once again. These experts looked at our manufacturing plant and designed, developed and installed an air filtration system that cleanses our in-plant air through the use of HEPA filters before any of the air can exhaust into the outside atmosphere, dramatically improving safety for both our plant personnel and our community. This system's performance easily surpasses any known air filtration procedures required by the U. S. government.
1994: Safety Coatings for Lead
A major effort to increase safety in the everyday handling of lead castings, lead extrusions and other lead products was instituted in 1994. Medi-RayTM realized that this goal could be realized if lead products had a suitable safety coating. Intense research and development resulted in the same year with the development of a proprietary, water based, low V.O.C. coating which adheres itself to lead. This revolutionary product reduces the V.O.C. levels that were previously present in coating applications and greatly enhances the safe handling of any lead product to which it is applied.
1994: Separate Recycling Facility
The recycling program for spent Technetium generators that Medi-RayTM had developed previously had grown to such an extent that an entirely separate facility was designed and constructed to comfortably house the processes in use for not only the Technetium generators but also other lead containers and the rapidly expanding commercial recycling operations.
1995: Just-in-Time Inventory Facility
In the following year Medi-RayTM designed and built another separate facility, this one a warehouse, to efficiently accommodate expanding requirements for inventories of both components and finished products, vital for our highly acclaimed expense- and labor-saving Just-In-Time inventory services.
1998: Ergonomics Research and Development
In 1998, Medi-RayTM personnel, along with analyses performed by physical therapists and other manufacturing consultants, reviewed all of Medi-RayTM's processes in terms of worker muscular demands. This evaluation generated the in-house development of proprietary manufacturing and assembly machinery which enabled Medi-RayTM to further increase product quality, production efficiency and personnel safety through the application of state-of-the-art ergonimics.
2000: Designing for Automation
Beginning in early 2000, Medi-RayTM undertook a project to adapt all of its radiopharmaceutical packaging to the latest pharmaceutical packaging automation equipment. These efforts have enabled all Medi-RayTM lead shielded containers to be utilized in worldwide automated radiopharmaceutical applications.
2001: Industrial Water Filtration Systems
Innovation continued with the arrival of the 21st century, when in 2001 Medi-RayTM utilized its formidable environmental engineering abilities to design, develop and perfect a remarkable water filtration system, adopted by several Fortune 100 companies, that effectively cleanses both hand-wash and production waste-water, greatly enhancing and safeguarding the quality of the environment wherever it is in place.
2005: Production Advancements
In early 2005, numerous fabrication projects involving individual unit weights exceeding 25,000 pounds required the pouring of lead alloy over a few hour span with a guarantee of solidity with no porosity acceptable. Medi-RayTM engineers developed pouring and heating apparatuses making possible individual unit projects exceeding 50,000 pounds. Bridge construction and scientific oceanographic pursuits have benefited by these new capabilities.
2006: The Introduction of Medical Radiation Accessories, Ltd.
In 2006 Medi-RayTM introduced a new subsidiary named Medical Radiation Accessories, Ltd. to meet their clients growing needs for standardized, off-the-shelf, nuclear medicine shipping containers, storage and shielding devices, shielding materials,\ as well as an extensive range of laboratory accessories. These readily available products provide the perfect compliment to the unique and specialized custom products manufactured by Medi-RayTM Inc.