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2,500+ different medical devices produced
20,000 direct jobs in medical device manufacturing
Local operations
7 of world’s Top 10 medical device companies
15 of the world’s Top 20 Class 3 manufacturers
Highest concentration of medical device expertise (5.5x national average)
Produces 90% of world’s pacemakers
Medical devices produced
- Pacemakers
- Defibrillators, pulmonary artery catheters
- Bandages
- Insulin pumps
- Hernia patches implants
- Contact lenses
- Stents
- Glucose monitors
- Blood collection systems
- IV saline bags
- Diagnostics
- Hemodynamic monitoring catheters
90% of all air cargo leaving Puerto Rico comprised of life science products
Companies with operations around the island
- Abbott Laboratories
- Abbott Medical Optics
- Angiotech
- Aspen Surgical
- Bard
- Becton Dickinson
- Boston Scientific
- Cardinal Health
- C-Axis
- CDI
- Coopervision
- Edwards Lifesciences
- Ethicon
- Fenwal In’l
- GVS SpA
- Integra LifeSciences
- LifeScan
- Medtronic
- Promed Haraeus
- Roche Diagnostics
- Santorious Stedim Biotech
- St. Jude Medical
- Stryker
- Zimmer Biomet
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