Raumedic Begins Construction on U.S. Headquarters

Raumedic, a polymer specialist in the medical and pharmaceutical industries, is investing $27.1 million to construct a new production center in the United States.

The German company’s new U.S. headquarters, which will include a development center and clean-room production, will be located in Mills River, N.C. (not far from Asheville, in the western part of the Tar Heel state).

Raumedic has been distributing tubing, molded parts and catheters— which until now had been produced exclusively in Germany—to North America for more than 10 years.

“Our new production center in the U.S. will combine the strengths of our German and American engineering. This will give rise to high-quality polymer extrusion, injection molded and assembled products for our North American customers. Henderson County in northwestern North Carolina offers us experienced and skilled employees and the ideal business environment for our investments,” said Martin Bayer, CEO of Raumedic AG.

Raumedic has more than 60 years of experience in plastics processing, with technologies including micro extrusion with an interior diameter of 0.004 inches and multi-layer structures including encapsulated radiopaque stripes, multi-component injection molding with hard/soft combinations, film blowing and the fully-automated assembly processes including 100-percent camera control.

Raumedic processes all common medical-grade thermoplastics and silicones. Based on demand, according to company officials, these technologies will be available in the new U.S. plant.

The company’s plan is to invest $27.1 million by 2022. A total of $10.6 million will go toward the construction of the new building, including a clean room production facility. A two-story administration and production building with a total area of 60,000 square feet will be built, with up to 22,000 square feet available for production.

Raumedic will start in January 2016 with more than 50 employees and increase this number gradually to more than 100, according to company officials. Jobs will include specialists in the areas of clean-room production, engineering, research and development, laboratory work, logistics, marketing and sales and administration.

As a part of the Rehau Group, a family company for polymer solutions active worldwide with 18,000 employees, Raumedic already is expanding its German headquarters in Helmbrechts, Bavaria, at a cost of around $32 million. This will create another 190 jobs in the coming years.