Medical innovators’ ideas into life-enhancing realities

Fort Worth, Texas – CoorsTek Medical is officially open, concluding the successful integration of IMDS and C5 Medical Werks, which began in late 2013. CoorsTek is a provider of high-performance engineered ceramic components and products to the medical technology industry and many others. CoorsTek Medical brings more than 50 years of experience in product development and manufacturing of implantable medical devices, creating a company with capabilities to turn great ideas into life-enhancing realities. The company is headquartered in Ft. Worth, Texas, and has R&D or manufacturing facilities in Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Oregon.

CoorsTek Medical’s five-stage CO-INNOVATION process has resulted in the successful launch of more than 150 medical devices, by incorporating services that go well beyond traditional product development including: expert engineering and marketplace counsel, intellectual property and regulatory assessments, and rapid prototyping capabilities. CoorsTek Medical also provides pre-clinical testing that reduces the lead time to clinical trials and simplifies the regulatory approval process. The company’s decades of experience spans a range of medical categories including joint reconstruction, extremities, trauma, spine, sports medicine, minimally invasive surgery, general surgery, cardiovascular, pulmonary, dental, dermatology, and other highly specialized surgical fields.

“The implantable medical device sector is a natural extension of CoorsTek’s business, as it depends on engineered ceramics and other advanced materials, and can leverage our company’s great strengths in materials engineering and very high-quality manufacturing,” said John Coors, chairman, president, and CEO of CoorsTek. “CoorsTek’s corporate vision is a measurably better world. Playing a larger role in making lives measurably better is a critical aspect of making that vision a reality, and our affiliate, CoorsTek Medical, has a lead role in making that happen.”

Materials engineering is a core competency of both CoorsTek and CoorsTek Medical, developing high-quality components and products using ceramics, metals, plastics, and specialty composites, with the ability to incorporate multiple materials into a single product. Scale, precision manufacturing is also a shared core competency. CoorsTek Medical’s manufacturing facilities are based in the United States and are tightly integrated into its overall development process. They incorporate state-of-the-art medical device manufacturing technologies, are ISO 13485-certified, and meet the stringent quality standards of several of the world’s best-known medical device providers. CoorsTek Medical is among the largest-scale manufacturers in the industry, producing over 1,000,000 medical components spanning more than 15 product sectors in a typical year.

“CoorsTek Medical is the only medical device company that provides medical innovators access to the full set of capabilities that span the product realization cycle,” said Jonathan Coors, CEO of CoorsTek Medical. “Our product development and manufacturing capabilities, coupled with our deep medical knowledge, unmatched materials engineering expertise, and core competency in partnering with our customers, further differentiate CoorsTek Medical from all others, and provide the environment for tomorrow’s medical breakthroughs to happen.”

Source: CoorsTek Medical