VistaMed has positioned itself as a leading provider of complex extrusions and finished medical devices. The company provides novel catheter solutions to its customers, enabling them to deliver leading edge technologies to the marketplace.

Products & Services
• VistaMed Offers: Comprehensive package in medical device innovation, from design concept to device assembly and packaging.
• Processes carried out in-house: fast project turn-arounds are achieved.
Capabilities include:
• Range of: Extrusions, moulding and insert moulding, tip forming and welding, laser machining of catheter tubing,balloon blowing, Nylon and thermoplastic polyurethane (PUR) balloons.
• Complete assembly and packaging .
• Assistance with technical files for CE or 510K submissions.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 13485:2003

Additional Languages
German

Contact Name / Title
Ann-Marie Shivnan

Email ashivnan@vistamed.net

Web www.vistamed.net

Tel +353 71 9638833

Address
IDA Business and Technology Park, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

Trustwater offers state-of-the-art technology for water and general disinfection requirements. Trustwater patented Ecaflo technologies produce activated mixed-oxidant solutions which destroy all forms of microbes including cryptosporidium.

Products & Services
Trustwater water disinfection systems have been successfully installed worldwide for applications such as:
• Legionella prevention in water systems and cooling towers.
• Clean-in-Place in food and beverage processing environment.
• Food industry and industrial process water treatment biofilm removal and prevention.
• Trustwater solutions are more effective than advanced oxidant techniques such as chlorine dioxide and ozone and more effective than conventional biocidal chemicals, yet are completely harmless to the environment.
• Trustwater offers significant efficacy, health and safety and environmental advantages over conventional disinfection methods.

Clients
Health Service Executive; Mercy Hospital Group; Dublin Dental Hospital; Quelly Group (food processing) and local authorities. Coca Cola, Abbott, Roche, NHS UK, Shell Chemicals, Virgin Active, Bibby Line.

Standards & Certifications
All Trustwater systems are CE and TÜV certified.

Contact Name / Title
Edmond O’Reilly, CEO

Email eor@trustwater.com

Web www.trustwater.com

Tel +353 52 6170818

Address
Unit 1, Gurtnafleur Business Park, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

Trend Technologies is a manufacturer of complex injection moulded components and assemblies.  They offer design, development, engineering and manufacturing services to the medical device, diagnostics and pharmaceutical industries. .

Products & Services
• Products manufactured include finished devices, surgical device components, printed syringes, wound care products, respiratory components and pharmaceutical packaging products
• Injection Moulding Technologies and Technologies: Including multi-component moulding, insert moulding, overmoulding, and IML/IMD.
• Downstream services including pad printing, painting, ultrasonic welding, manual and automated assembly, are also available.
• All Aspects of the Project Are Managed: Including design, tooling, finishing, assembly, testing, packaging, vendor management and logistics.
• Manufacturing activities are carried out within Trend’s large class 10,000 (Class 8 ) cleanroom facility.

Clients
Covidien, Schering-Plough, Gyrus Medical, Waters Technologies, and Johnson & Johnson.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14001.

Contact Name / Title
Brendan Murtagh, Business Development Manager

Email bmurtagh@trendtechnologies.com

Web www.trendtechnologies.ie

Tel +353 44 9334360

Address
Zone C, Mullingar Business Park, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Tegan Innovations Ltd. specialises in the design and build of special purpose equipment, predominantly for the medical device industry. All research, development and manufacturing are carried out in in-house.

Products & Services
• Typical projects include: Assembly machines for the medical industry, specialised fixturing, packaging systems, high volume pad printing of injection moulded parts and component feeding and handling systems.
• Tegan Have Developed the Following Expertise: 3D design, PLC and PC controls, vision systems, Scada, GAMP and CE marking of own equipment.
• Tegan Uses the Following Resources: 3D solid modelling (4 sets of SolidWorks), rapid prototyping (3D printing), two seats of CAM, two 4-axis CNC-milling machines, CNC-lathe, wire machine and AutoCAD electrical.

Standards & Certifications
All equipment is built to meet CE regulations and for the medical world the company works to good automated manufacturing practice (GAMP) standards.

Contact Name / Title
Paul Walsh, Principal Design Engineer

Email paul.walsh@tegan.ie

Web www.tegan.ie

Tel +353 51 590270

Address
Unit 12A, Six Cross Roads Business Park, Waterford.

Technical Engineering specialises in providing engineering services to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. These services include design, precision engineering, mould tooling and automation and machine building. A particular strength of the company is its ability to provide innovative solutions.

Products & Services
• Automatic robotic necking machine: for use in the manufacture of balloon catheters.
• Revolutionary hub for multi-lumen catheter.
• Washer/dryer for brushes: used in the pharmaceutical industry.
• The company has highly skilled designers, tool makers and mould tool makers using high specifications hardware and software capable of bring products from design to final assembly.
• Fast delivery service as a result of operating 24 hours per day with three shifts.

Clients
Wyeth, Glaxo SmithKline, Akzo Nobel (Organon), Medtronic, Abbott, Tyco, Eli Lilly, Hewlett Packard, Servier.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000

Additional Languages
German, Polish, French.

Note
The company is actively seeking partners for each of the projects mentioned, all give a very consistent and uniform product.

Contact Name / Title
John Hunt, Managing Director

Email jhunt@techengtool.com

Web www.technicalengineeringgroup.com

Tel +353 44 33680

Address
Forest Park, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Takumi Precision Engineering is a sub contract precision engineering company which manufactures medical implants, surgical instruments, production aids and a variety of specialised tooling.

Products & Services
• Machining and Finishing Orthopaedic Instruments and Implants: Has a dedicated air conditioned area for the dry machining of polyethylene bearing inserts and other plastic components.
• Assembly Aids and Specialised Tooling: For the Cardiovascular industry including balloon forming moulds and related tooling, complex wire shaping mandrels and micro-wire forming devices.
• From initial concept through prototyping and into production, Takumi is a proactive partner, with a proven ability to develop and maintain stable manufacturing processes facilitating faster time-to-market.
• Takumi collaborates with customers to produce innovative solutions to engineering problems.

Clients
Abbott, Boston Scientific, Clearstream, Creganna, Cook, Cordis, Vistakon, Depew, Endosence, Stryker, Symmetry, Lake Region, Medtronic, Merit Medical, Tornier.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001, ISO 13485.

Additional Languages
Polish, German, Japanese.

Contact Name / Title
Gerry Reynolds, CEO

Email gerry@takumiprecision.com

Web www.takumiprecision.com

Tel +353 61 308686

Address
Raheen Ind Estate, Raheen, Limerick.

Smithstown Light Engineering is a precision engineering company offering services in design, manufacturing and inspectio. Quality is the cornerstone of everything the company does. Focus is primarily on the medical industry, specifically orthopaedics and the medical devices sector, including manufacture of paediatric filter and check valve moulds.

Products & Services
• A company policy of investment in new technology every year means that the most modern and technologically advanced services are always available.
• A full range of manufacturing services are available, including all manner of CNC–milling, including 5-axis, CNC-turning including mill/turn, CNC-grinding, OD/ID-grinding, wire-EDM, spark-EDM, CMM-inspection, laser-welding, and high-speed milling.
• Full design capability using Unigraphics is available, enabling compatibility with all design systems and formats.
• The company also has a dedicated inspection department utilising two Zeiss CMM’s and a Smartscope, along with various types of inspection equipment.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003.

Contact Name / Title
Gerard King, Executive Director

Email gking@sle.ie

Web www.sle.ie

Tel +353 61 362111

Address
Smithstown Ind. Estate, Shannon, Co. Clare.

The company consists of two distinct divisions: (1) Realtime Technologies offers sub-contract manufacturing and design services to the non-invasive medical electronics device sector, while (2) SHIMMER Research designs, manufactures, markets, sells and distributes SHIMMER, a hardware research platform designed explicitly for wearable health sensing.

Products & Services
• SHIMMER Platform: Enables researchers to reduce the time spent on developing foundational technologies for health sensing – its TinyOS based open platform coupled with low power consumption, dual radio and MicroSD storage facilitate wearable wireless sensing.
• Services Provided: Prototyping and Automated printed circuit board assembly, AOI, ICT and functional testing, burn-in and environmental stress screening, configure to order, unit assembly, supply chain management, design and development, DFM.
• Realtime: Has a wealth of engineering knowledge accumulated from many years of industry experience which ensures products are introduced in a swift and structured fashion.
• Realtime: Rated as an A supplier by several customers based on quality, delivery and service.

Clients
The company’s portfolio is drawn from the life sciences and high-tech sectors including multinational OEMs, institutional and academic customers, and Realtime currently ships to over 20 countries.

Standards & Certifications
ISO EN 9001:2000, ISO EN 13485:2003, UL listed.

Note
The company has also received the ‘excellence through people’ award.

Contact Name / Title
Kieran Daly, VP Business Development

Email kdaly@realtime.ie

Web www.realtime.ie, www.shimmer-research.com

Tel +353 1 8486112

Address
Clonshaugh Business and Technology Park, Dublin 17.

ProTek Medical is a full service outsourcing partner to the global medical device industry with world class operations in the USA, Europe and Asia. Advanced product innovations are possible by leveraging off a comprehensive portfolio of injection moulding and manufacturing technologies.

Products & Services
• Research: Materials research and injection moulding technologies.
• Design: Clinical investigation, user studies, exploration, design and development, on-line prototyping database development, design verification and validation, rapid tooling and production tooling.
• Cleanroom Moulding: Thermoplastic, micro, multi shot, LSR, over and insert moulding, metal, ceramic, magnesium and bio absorbable.
• Cleanroom Manufacturing: Automated assembly, drug repackaging, metal forming, fine wire welding, pilot production and testing.

Clients
Boston Scientific, Covidien, Stryker Howmedica, Smith Medical, Micrel Medical Devices.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 13485, FDA ~ 21 CFR Part 820 and CFR (Parts 210 and 211).

Additional Languages
German, French.

Contact Name / Title
Eamon O’Connell, Engineering and Business Development Manager

Email eoconnell@protek.ie

Web www.protek.ie

Tel +353 71 9151438

Address
Finisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo.

Pressco Ltd. supplies precision components and fully certified electro-mechanical assemblies to the medical device industry. The life sciences division machines LSG polymers in a dedicated white room facility. Assembly takes place in an ESD protected assembly plant and all piece parts are fully traceable.

Products & Services
• CNC-milling (5-axis 3D)
• CNC-turning
• Swiss turning (13-axis)
• Surface finishing and heat treatment
• High level fully certified electro-mechanical assemblies
• White-room LSG plastics machining
• Supply chain management
• Design and development

Clients
Multinationals in the life sciences and high-tech sectors.

Standards & Certifications
I.S. EN ISO 9001:2008, I.S. EN ISO 13485:2003.

Contact Name / Title
John Hayes, Business Development Manager

Email john.hayes@pressco.ie

Web www.pressco.ie

Tel +353 1 8301733

Address
66/67 Moyle Road, Dublin Industrial Estate, Glasnevin, Dublin 11.