Category: MWE News

Welcoming Dean Uddin, our new UK Sales Manager, bringing 15+ years of commercial experience to support growth and customer success at MWE.

Insights from IPC 2025: Exploring proactive infection prevention and control with POLYWIPE and tools like U-SWAB® MRSA screening easier.

Hannah and Ella Broggio ran the 2025 London Marathon, raising £2,000+ for Get A-Head. Read how they trained, coped with the heat, and crossed the finish line.

MWE highlights from ESCMID 2025, including SampleSUITE™, U-SWAB™ Self-Collection, and innovations in infection prevention and diagnostics.

Medical Wire & Equipment Co Ltd (MWE) has partnered with ConceptoMed AS to launch a new era of swab-free self-collection devices. Combining MWE’s trusted specimen media with ConceptoMed’s innovative SampleSuite – including SalivaPOD™, StoolPOD™, and CapillaryPOD™. The partnership delivers scalable, sustainable, and patient-friendly diagnostic sampling for labs and point-of-care worldwide.

Ensuring M40-A2 compliance in specimen transport is key to accurate diagnostics. Learn how validated systems uphold quality, reduce risks, and meet regulatory standards. Visit us at ESCMID 2025 to discover why M40-A2 matters for your lab.

Four team members from Medical Wire & Equipment took on the Bath Ultra Challenge, walking a combined 78km to raise £235 for Julia’s House Children’s Hospice. Discover how their efforts will make a meaningful difference to local families in need.

Our innovative self-collection range empowers individuals to provide high-quality diagnostic samples without in-person visits. Designed for healthcare professionals, it ensures reliable, lab-ready results with convenient, patient-centered solutions. Explore the future today!

With 10+ years of experience in logistics & operations and a people-first leadership style, Scott is set to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and build high-performing teams at MWE.

MWE proudly supports Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance, a life-saving charity providing critical emergency care. WBAA operates 24/7, relying on donations to keep saving lives. As business club members, we visited their airbase to witness their vital work.

Discover how the SIGMA Range enhances diagnostic accuracy, ensuring better samples, better data, and better decisions. Learn how high-quality specimen transport supports reliable diagnostics, trend analysis, and antibiotic stewardship.

Ensure accurate diagnostics with M40-A2-compliant specimen transport. Learn how it preserves integrity, reduces risks, and meets lab quality standards.

SIGMA TRANSWAB® is now validated for use with the eazyplex® molecular diagnostic system, ensuring seamless specimen collection and reliable results.

Medical Wire & Equipment supports local charity: Julia’s House Children’s Hospice, a vital charity providing care for children with life-limiting conditions.

Be Flu-Season Ready with SIGMA VIROCULT®

Protect your loved ones with the safety and comfort of home testing

Ensure accurate diagnostics by selecting swabs and transport media that meet CLSI M40-A2 standards, designed to maintain specimen integrity from collection through automation.

Offering innovative sampling solutions, pathogen detection, and eco-friendly packaging for surface sampling challenges.

SIGMA VIROCULT® is now validated for the Bosch Vivalytic Analyser, enhancing flexibility and performance in viral testing.

SIGMA VIROCULT® is now validated for the Bosch Vivalytic Analyser, enhancing flexibility and performance in viral testing.

Making sustainable changes with sustainability-driven packaging made from crop waste, reducing tree-based materials

SIGMA VIROCULT® enables early RSV detection, improving patient care and health outcomes through reliable virus specimen transport.

Study shows SIGMA MM™ enables rapid Mpox virus inactivation and comfortable swab collection for safer, efficient testing.

We are excited to welcome Richard Farmer as our new Export Sales Manager. With 25 years of experience in sales, distribution, and project management, Richard brings a wealth of industry knowledge. He looks forward to driving global collaborations and connecting with customers.

Dr. Brad Spiller’s report highlights the effectiveness of SIGMA VCM™ in preserving Ureaplasma and Mycoplasma species for over seven years, demonstrating its reliability for long-term microbial storage and potential for cost-effective ambient shipping.

We are excited to introduce our team of expert Account Managers at MWE, strategically aligned to provide unparalleled support across the UK. Meet Sophie Price, Thomas Robinson, and Katerina Evangali, who bring extensive experience in microbiology and customer support to ensure your laboratory operations are optimized and efficient.

With a strong background in microbiology and extensive experience in clinical sales, Katerina is eager to enhance laboratory workflows across various industries. Her expertise and enthusiasm make her a valuable addition to the MWE UK sales team as a UK Account Manager.

The re-designed composition neatly combines our famous POLYWIPE™ sponge swab with a stomacher bag to enhance sampling convenience.

MWE Recognised as a Growing and Purposeful Company within Growth Index Report

MWE are delighted to welcome back our UK Sales Manager, Sophie Price, after her maternity leave.

MWE product found and returned home.

Σ-VIROCULT now has an extended shelf life of 24-months from the date of manufacture.

UK NEQAS Microbiology / Microbiology Scientific Friday 24th November 2023.

Product identification changes to improve traceability, reducing the time it takes for MWE to react to any potential user/patient risk.

MWE’s ranges have been the products of choice globally, and are being used as inactivation and liquid transport media for Monkeypox. Please refer to your own country’s guidelines for more information on the type of product being used.

Latex comes from the rubber tree and is widely known to cause allergic reactions. An allergic reaction is when your body overreacts to a particular substance (such as latex, kiwis or pollen). Most clinical environments will routinely substitute out latex products as a precautionary measure if possible. MWE’s products do not contain latex.

Established for over 70 years, Medical Wire (MWE) has grown into a global enterprise supporting organisations and governments worldwide, in industries including food, forensics, clinical, pharmaceutical, laboratories, and even veterinary.

MWE has been established for 70 years and has always been known for providing pre-analytics that are compliant, excellent quality and manufactured to international standards, to the clinical, food, pharma, forensics, research and veterinary industries.

MWE supports three charities – Group B Strep Society, Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Julia’s House Children’s Hospice. We are proud to work with them and support them so they can meet their goals.

MWE is back exhibiting at conferences globally and 2022 has been a great start for face to face meetings, especially after 2 years of virtual events. Stay up-to-date on the conferences we will be attending in the events section of our website.