New bid to target medical devices investment

The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) today announced that it will be targeting the €115bn global medical devices industry in a bid to increase foreign direct investment into Ireland.

Speaking at the first medical devices conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, Maurice Buckley, CEO, NSAI announced that NSAI is investing in building technical expertise to target the medical devices industry.

He said the NSAI is in the process of streamlining the certification process to provide high tech firms with one of the speediest accesses to the European market through CE marking.

NSAI has certified more than 100 medical device products in the past 12 months and is set to establish a European Headquarters for medical devices certification.