By: Deborah Johnson Wood
The leaders at Surge Medical in Grand Rapids still consider the two-year-old medical device manufacturer a start-up. But since acquiring a product line 12 months ago, the company has been on an upward climb on the sales charts.
Surge Medical makes disposable cardioplegia perfusion cannula and associated accessories—surgical devices that administer medicine directly to a patient’s heart during open-heart surgery. The company purchased the product line last year, after a year of research and building the company to eight employees.
The focus now includes improving sales—to the tune of some $1.5 million. Surge produces and packages the devices, then delivers them sterilized and ready to use to hospitals throughout North America, Central America, Europe, and Asia.
“I anticipate adding one or two assembly jobs,” says Ted Chittenden, company spokesperson. “We also have two new products in development for open heart surgery. We expect those to go to market early next year.”
Surge Medical is a founding member of the West Michigan Medical Device Consortium, a coalition of medical device manufacturers, brought together by the West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative to leverage strengths and market West Michigan as a global player in medical device manufacturing.
“Surge has a depth of knowledge for developing and distributing products domestically and internationally,” Chittenden says. “These are skills we can bring to other manufacturers who may not have those skills. We can plug into the supply chain, and that helps us and it helps West Michigan with jobs, and that’s what it’s all about.”
Source: Ted Chittenden, Surge Medical; Kim Bode, West Michigan Science and Technology Initiative
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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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