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Send questions about site content and general comments to purchasingpro@digikey.com.Flextronics expands Romanian medical equipment facility
The EMS provider‘s Eastern European facility will offer medical OEMs more services
11/23/2011
Electronics manufacturing services provider Flextronics has expanded its facility in Timisoara, Romania to include a dedicated medical operation to better serve medical equipment OEMs, the company reported.
The expansion includes a newly refurbished production area and 1,300 square meters of class-eight clean room which increases existing manufacturing capabilities. Additionally, it will allow Flextronics to provide a complete portfolio of manufacturing services from a single location in Eastern Europe.
Bill Flaherty, president of Flextronics Medical, said the investment reflects the EMS provider’s expanding business as well as “growth opportunities in emerging markets for medical equipment and medical disposables products.”
Globally, Flextronics Medical has a team that includes more than 300 design engineers. The business unit focuses on providing design, manufacturing, and logistics services to medical in five sectors including drug delivery such as insulin pumps, consumer health products (blood glucose meters), disposable products (single-use sterile devices, heart catheters, guide catheters, wound care products), imaging and monitoring equipment, and laboratory equipment.
