GR medical manufacturer forms alliance with $10 billion electronics giant
Market trends for medical devices indicate global demand will triple over the next few years. Two Grand Rapids manufacturers, Atek Medical and Sterile Systems, Inc. are poised to tap the market.
According to excerpts from the story:
In the booming business of medical devices, a new alliance is forming between Atek Medical Manufacturing and Solectron Corp., a California electronics giant with $10 billion in sales.
Atek Medical, formerly Medtronics Cardiac Surgery, employs 245 and views the coalition with Solectron Corp.’s medical segment as a way to quickly tap a global market.
“Most of the large medical-device companies need both things: those that are electronic in nature, and the disposable type of devices,” said Christy Bieber Orris, chief executive of Atek Cos.
“We’re the first to come forward with this one-stop shop.”
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