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TekniPlex Healthcare expands Costa Rica facility

November 3, 2023 By Jim Hammerand

NEWS RELEASE: TekniPlex Healthcare Celebrates Costa Rica Facility Expansion with Ribbon-Cutting Event

The 55,000-sq-ft expansion includes new medical tubing extrusion equipment, as well as additional room for warehousing and assembly operations.

(From left) TekniPlex Healthcare CEO Chris Qualters, TekniPlex ​​​​​​​Chief Corporate Development Officer Suj Mehta, and Juan Pablo Jimenez, representative of COMEX, the Costa Rica Ministry of Foreign Trade, at the ribbon cutting event in Cartago [Photo courtesy of TekniPlex Healthcare]
Wayne, PA – TekniPlex Healthcare, which utilizes advanced materials science expertise to help deliver better patient outcomes, celebrated the recent expansion of its production facility in Cartago, Costa Rica. Comprising 55,000 square feet, the additional room is being utilized for new medical tubing extrusion lines, downstream equipment for assembly and other operations, and warehousing space.

For TekniPlex Healthcare’s Cartago facility, the October 26 ribbon-cutting commemorated the third stage of a multiphase expansion. For this phase, a new building allows manufacturing to be segregated from warehousing, and provides additional capacity for both. Highlights to date include new medical tubing extrusion equipment installed in a cleanroom environment; the continuous closed-loop feedback extrusion system will help drive tighter tolerances at high manufacturing speeds, allowing TekniPlex Healthcare to increase its medical tubing and profile capacity amid a growing medical device components market.

The Phase 3 expansion also helps further improve TekniPlex Healthcare’s business continuity capabilities – often a key factor in strategic partner selection where dual validation is critical – by building upon existing medical tubing manufacturing operations in the United States, Mexico, Europe and China.

For TekniPlex Healthcare, the investment and expansion at its Cartago plant further extends its ability to produce and deliver complex medical device assemblies that meet and exceed stringent requirements. Upon completion, the project will add new extrusion lines, essentially doubling TekniPlex Healthcare’s capacity for micro-extrusions, quad tubes, thermally bonded paratubing, and advanced multilayer coextrusions for complex drug delivery applications. It will also include a dedicated cleanroom to perform other value-added activities and assembly.

About TekniPlex Healthcare

TekniPlex Healthcare utilizes advanced materials science expertise and technologies to develop and deliver critical solutions for medical and diagnostic devices, drug delivery systems and healthcare packaging applications. With a global reach, the division’s deep understanding of the greater pharmaceuticals and medical landscape helps it produce exemplary barrier properties for drugs and precision medical devices for interventional and therapeutic procedures. TekniPlex Healthcare’s ever-evolving portfolio helps meet demands for high-leverage medicines and mission-critical healthcare products that benefit care providers and patients. For more information visit www.tekni-plex.com/healthcare.

The opinions expressed in this news release are the author’s only and do not necessarily reflect those of Medical Tubing + Extrusion or its employees.

Filed Under: Assembly, Extrusions, Tubing Components Tagged With: TekniPlex Healthcare

About Jim Hammerand

Jim Hammerand is the managing editor of Medical Design & Outsourcing. He has more than 15 years of professional journalism experience spanning newspapers, magazines, websites and broadcast news. For nearly a decade, he reported and edited business news for American City Business Journals as a reporter and digital editor at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and then managing editor of the Puget Sound Business Journal in Seattle. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. He is based near Seattle in Edmonds, Washington, where he and his family live. Connect with him on LinkedIn or by email at jimhammerand@wtwhmedia.com.

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