INDUSTRY NEWS
To meet current production needs and to add some elbow room for new product development, Teleflex Medical OEM has spent US$500,000 to expand its facility in Annacotty, Co. Limerick, Ireland. The initiative is described as the first installment in a long-term strategy for expanding production capabilities.
The expansion will allow the firm to create additional extrusion platforms and to provide more broad-based tubing products, according to plant manager Jerry Kiely. Furthermore, it will accommodate the company’s planned growth in the production of high-value devices that focus on intervention procedures, he adds.
The company’s US headquarters in Jaffrey, NH, also recently announced the acquisition of Specialized Medical Devices Inc. (SMD; Lancaster, PA, USA), part of its purchase of the assets of HDJ Company, Inc., also based in Lancaster. SMD was a wholly owned subsidiary of HDJ, and it provides engineering and manufacturing services to medical device OEMs. The transaction adds a line of medical components, devices, implants, and instruments used primarily in orthopaedic procedures to the Teleflex Medical portfolio.
For more information about either of these developments, contact Teleflex Medical OEM, Unit 7-9, Annacotty Ind. Est., Annacotty, Co. Limerick, Ireland; phone: +353 61 331906; fax: +353 61 330725; e-mail: info@tfx.com [7]; Internet: www.teleflexmedicaloem.com [8].