Flextronic targets medical devices

Global logistics company Flextronics has secured high-level authorisation which it hopes will allow the company grow in to the medical devices sector.

The company’s Raheen site in Limerick has secured ISO 13485 certification, which demonstrates the existence of a highly effective quality management system which meets international regulatory, safety, and quality concerns specific to the medical device industry.

Flextronics, which employs 300 people in Ireland, hopes the medical devices industry will be key to growth in Ireland. As manufacturing has been moving away from Ireland and Europe, Flextronics has had to target new business areas.

The quality certifications enable the company to tailor specific solutions to customers in the med-tech and pharma industry such as the medical device sector, while also enhancing Flextronics’s ability to support customers in regulatory audits from bodies such as the FDA.

Tom Clancy, Flextronics general manager, supply chain solutions, said that the experience with pharmaceutical companies has made them the natural choice for medical devices companies.

“The combination of our 20 years of expertise and experience, the ISO certification, the recently awarded Irish Medicines Board wholesalers authorisation, and the fact that we were the first company in Ireland to achieve authorised economic operator status, it is clear that Flextronics is ideally positioned as a leading supply chain solutions provider for the med-tech and pharma sectors in Ireland.”

He said the company has already won a number of contracts in the area and are building on their experience with pharma companies.

“Our team in Limerick and Cork have been working within the pharma sector for a number of years, and have developed real insights and expertise in this area. As well as winning a number of key contracts with significant medtech organisations, we are widely acknowledged as the leading supply chain solutions firm to the sector in Ireland.”