MIPM celebrates Chinese New Year in Hawaii

That this journey would not be the last and that long nights lay ahead for MIPM was not expected. In 2014, the first device was sent to China, followed by a total of 9 employees from management, development, and regulatory affairs between 2014 and 2019. "The questions kept starting over, and the enormous language barriers didn't make it any easier," said Adrian Freitag, project manager at MIPM. "The trip to China brought interesting food, but also many exhausting discussions with authorities and testing labs," said David Huppertz, development engineer at MIPM.

However, the MIPM team was repeatedly motivated by positive feedback from demo setups in China: "The doctors want the highly qualified TeslaM3 device from Germany, and the competitors can't overcome the approval barrier either."

Then the news in December 2019: "All documents are complete and submitted. We are just waiting for the OK from the health authority (CFDA)." "We wanted to be happy, but we had heard this sentence so many times before," said Andreas Klement, head of development, who also supported on-site. In constant contact with the Chinese partner, he suggested that Michael N. Rosenheimer meet on a business trip in February.

That this meeting was to take place in Hawaii was peculiar. But what wouldn't you do for your partners? Then the big surprise: The Chinese partner had brought the long-awaited approval for the MRI patient monitor TeslaM3.

"Of course, I appreciate our dealer very much and had hoped he could tell us something new about the approval," reported Rosenheimer, "But I didn't expect the certificate for the approval." Rosenheimer is planning a joint MIPM celebration with his entire MIPM family. After all, everyone stuck together all these years and deserved a little "New Year's party." Whether it will be Peking duck or the typical Bavarian roast pork is not yet decided, only that everyone will get to try the chopsticks.

The MIPM family is now gearing up for sales in China. Not only is German quality in high demand there, but MIPM is also the only company in this niche represented in China.