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Founded in October 2007, Tegra Medical is the combination of four trusted firms from the medical device manufacturing industry whose roots go back for decades. New England Precision Grinding, Holliston, MA, Accu-Met Laser, Cranston, RI, and American Medical Instruments, Dartmouth, MA, united in 2007 by Riverside Partners LLC, Boston, MA, and senior management. In December 2009, joining the group was CTW Inc., an orthopaedic-focused contract manufacturing company (Hernando, MS). In June 2010, the acquisition of a manufacturing operation in Costa Rica from Penn United was to ensure the ability to offer a low-cost country option to customers facing price pressures and those who have set up manufacturing operations in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Today, Tegra Medical provides premium quality contract manufacturing and assembly services for the medical device industry. Their markets include orthopaedics, minimally invasive surgery, interventional therapies, and others, such as diabetes and pain management, all of which require a high level of precision. With an exclusive focus on medical device manufacturing, Tegra Medical experts answer customers’ needs for Solutions, Speed, and Service.

Solutions – You need innovative problem solvers. You can rely on Tegra Medical’s manufacturing experts, from design for manufacturability and assembly, to prototyping, to final device assembly and packaging.

Speed – You need it fast. Rapid turnaround ensures you can turn prototypes into products quickly and get your medical devices to market sooner.

Service – You need a manufacturing partner that is flexible. Tegra Medical’s project managers and dedicated customer care teams will make your project their own.

To ensure the highest levels of quality for your medical device, these are some of the actions Tegra Medical take:

• Employ six Black Belt certified engineers that play a key role in driving our quality and continuous improvement focus throughout the organization
• Validate special processes to ensure repeatability, minimize inspection time, and reduce cost
• Train employees to ensure the continuous improvement of critical skill sets, integrating a quality discipline into everything employees do
• Examine first pass yields
• Deploy lean manufacturing/Six Sigma tools to eliminate waste and remove variation from our manufacturing processes
• Use real-time statistical process control (SPC)
• ISO 13485:2003 certified and compliant with FDA’s Quality System Regulations (QSR) in all facilities, and ISO 9001:2008 certified in Franklin, Dartmouth, and Costa Rica