Articles Tagged with ''medical device manufacturing''

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned Zimmer Holdings Inc. about its practices for manufacturing and testing hip implants at an assembly plant in Puerto Rico.

MENTOR, OH— Medical device manufacturer Steris Corp. is building a new, $11 million assembly plant here.

LITHIA SPRINGS, GA—Medline Industries is spending $35 million to expand its assembly plant here by 50 percent, less than a year after it opened. The company plans to hire additional workers to support the new assembly lines.

LAKE FOREST, IL—Hospira Inc. has received a warning letter from the FDA stemming from an April inspection of the company’s medical device assembly plant in La Aurora de Heredia, Costa Rica.

CANTON, IL—Cook Medical has opened a new, $19 million factory here to make PTFE tubing for medical devices. The plant will employ 60.

FORT WAYNE, IN—Greatbatch Medical has opened a new, $17 million assembly plant here to make orthopedic implants.

VERSAILLES, OH—Midmark Corp., a producer of medical, dental and veterinary equipment, is expand its assembly plant here.

As these case histories illustrate, medical device manufacturers are using presses to solve diverse assembly challenges.

JACKSONVILLE, FL—Medtronic’s Surgical Technologies Div. broke ground on a $14 million, 75,000-square-foot, expansion of its assembly plant here. The medical device manufacturer plans to add 175 high-wage jobs.

BOSTON—Half of medical device manafacturers would absorb the cost of the new medical device excise tax by cutting R&D expenditures, according to a new survey by the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council.