Valtronic’s Orthopaedic Spinal manufacturing division is establishing itself as a global supplier of medical implants by partnering with spinal companies for the entire product design and manufacturing cycle. To address the needs of their customers in this market and to become a complete full service supplier, Valtronic is expanding into a new state-of-the-art facility which will be located at the company’s main headquarters in Les Charbonnières Switzerland.
Micro electronics for artificial spinal disc, spinal hook, retinal implant and many more application are daily challenges at Valtronic’s.
“The new building will provide us with the strategic opportunity to increase our capabilities and capacity as an already high quality medical implant supplier,”
states Bertrand Gabry, VP of the Spinal Implants Business Unit. The initial groundbreaking is planned for the second quarter of 2011. The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of the first quarter of 2012.
“At this time, we will introduce new manufacturing and surface finishing equipment that will reduce our need for outsourcing. Vertically integrating our operations will give us more control over the complete manufacturing process as well as allow us to reduce time and costs, a benefit which will be passed on to our customers,”
Mr. Gabry proclaimed.
“Additionally as part of this expansion, we will add more equipment for medical implant grade plastics such as PEEK, preparing us to meet the present and future needs of our customers.”
To offer more to customers Valtronic is taking this opportunity to also restructure product flow through the workshop by standardizing equipment, tooling, and processes which will improve efficiencies. “
We are confident that our changes and physical expansion will offer our customers the services and manufacturing bandwidth they seek to increase their marketshare in this highly competitive market,”
Mr. Gabry concluded.
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