Forefront Medical Technology will be on display at CompaMed 2024 to discuss its expanded network of contract manufacturing facilities at its stand in Hall 8b/E36-1.

This year, Forefront Medical added a fifth manufacturing facility, enabling it to provide its customers with locations in North America, Europe and Asia. This facility was established earlier this year in Juarez, Mexico for convenient access to the U.S.-Mexico border. 

The 68,000 square foot facility is now ISO 13485-certified, and FDA registered. Capabilities include injection molding, extrusion, clean room assembly and packaging, and automated high-volume production. European customers can now access Forefront Medical’s commercially competitive, quality production from both Asia and the Americas to improve their supply chains.

Headquartered in Singapore, Forefront Medical offers a comprehensive Asia-based manufacturing solution with factories in Singapore and JiangSu and Xiamen, PRC. Forefront Medical’s capabilities within Asia include selective laser sintering (SLS) and multi-jet modeling (MJM) systems, injection and blow molding, extrusion, metal fabrication, electromechanical assembly, and clean room assembly capabilities.

“Our goal in this multi-year effort to expand our network of manufacturing facilities has been to provide our global customer base with greater flexibility and choice in deciding where they want their products manufactured. Customers selling products into North America gain the benefits of nearshore pricing and the simplified logistics of a border location. Our Mexico facility combined with our comprehensive manufacturing capabilities in Singapore, China and the UK, gives our global customer base a variety of options for regional manufacturing strategies serving Asia and Europe,” said Walter Tarca, Forefront Medical Technology’s president.

Its European commercial office is in Kington, U.K., with a plant that also offers manual assembly and sterile packaging of instruments and critical devices in class 7 cleanrooms, medical textiles (RF welding, sewing and bonding) and silicone/rubber compression molding, with the ability to support start-up projects via liaison with multiple design and prototyping agencies.