Bill Ellerkamp

ExtruMed, Inc. produces catheter tubing for vital medical and non-medical applications. The firm's products include multi-lumen, heat-shrink, and balloon tubing products. Its services include annealing, tipping, mechanical & pressure testing, and inventory management services. The company was founded in 1990 by Vraj A. Lathiya and is headquartered in Placentia, CA.

ExtruMed was founded in 1990 with the express purpose of providing custom thermoplastic extrusions to the medical industry. In 2005, ExtruMed embarked on a strategic growth plan to become the market leader providing precision tubing solutions to the industry, serving customers with critical applications in minimally invasive, interventional and implantable therapies. Its core markets include Vascular Intervention, including coronary, peripheral and neurovascular, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Neurostimulation, Endosurgery and Vascular Access. ExtruMed has been serving a wide variety of medical device OEMs, ranging from venture-backed start-ups to leading global medical device companies. They understand that customers have unique needs and they are ready to serve these demands by establishing unique outsourcing relationships with each customer. In addition, they have the capability and resources to support projects at any stage in the product lifecycle, from prototype development through full scale production volume. Its range of precision tubing solutions includes catheter, lead and device tubing manufactured to exacting tolerances from virtually any thermoplastic and is available in many configurations, including co-extrusions, multi-lumens, and tapers. In addition, they offer irradiated balloon tubing and polyolefin heat shrink tubing. They also complement its precision tubing solutions with value added services for its customers. These services include secondary operations such as annealing, tipping, mechanical testing, pressure testing, process validations and inventory management. Its Operations team has over 100 years of experience in the custom extrusion industry. Its staff is able to provide the design and technical expertise required to support your advanced extrusion needs for innovative solutions to product development challenges. Its staff is also equipped to manage continuous improvement projects to support quality and cost engineering objectives. Its Management team also has extensive experience in the medical device outsourcing business and is able to offer innovative and effective solutions for a wide variety of business challenges. All its facilities are ISO 13485:2003 certified and have employees and culture that are dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations for quality, lead times and pricing. It is this devotion to quality and customer service that has enabled each of its individual facilities to be on the approved supplier list at both large and small medical device OEMs. Its commitment to a common Quality System for all its facilities and a company-wide Continuous Improvement program enable them to implement best practices throughout the organization, while still allowing individual facilities the freedom to respond rapidly and flexibly to the customer.

MedSource Technologies Holdings LLC provides engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain management services for the medical device industry. The company was founded by Andrew D. Lipman, Richard J. Effress, and William John Kidd on April 1998 and is headquartered in Wilmington, MA.

Ranier Technology Ltd. manufactured spinal implant products. The company was founded in 1995 and was headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.