VitalPath Opens New Design Center

VitalPath, manufacturer of custom, complex catheter solutions, has opened a new Design Center in New Hope, Minn., a Minneapolis suburb.
 
The vertically integrated facility combines the resources and capabilities for early product development under one roof. The company plans to hire 50 engineers and technicians in the next three to five years.
 
The Design Center has 28,000 square feet of space with 4,200 square feet of cleanroom space. VitalPath is expanding its ISO certification to include design and development. The facility will serve customers in the cardiovascular, electrophysiology, neurovascular, peripheral vascular and structural heart markets.
 
“Our customers are looking to speed time to market by streamlining their supply chain with partners that offer broad capabilities,” VitalPath CEO Randall Sword told the press. “We opened this Design Center to meet this customer need. In addition to adding design services, we’ve brought state-of-the-art capabilities from all three of our sites together in one facility. These focused resources at prototype scale will help customers get to market faster.”
 
“In the past, customers have come to us with finalized specifications for complex catheters,” added Scott Olson, VP of engineering at VitalPath. “Now, we can add value by actually helping them develop their specifications from the earliest design stage. We have everything they need to do the job, which helps us to move more quickly and streamline early development programs.”
 
 
“Our new Design Center takes our capabilities to the next level,” Sword said. The facility’s capabilities include dedicated cleanrooms for pilot and pre-production builds, wet labs for internal verification testing, 3D printing, tabletop injection molding, extruding, laser cutting and laser welding.