Take You to Know the World's Top 5 Medical Device Clusters in One Article
01 90% of the world's pacemakers are produced on this island!
Puerto Rico is an island in the Caribbean Sea. This island exports drugs and medical devices to more than 80 countries around the world. It is the largest drug export region in the United States and also the main source of various best - selling medical devices. 90% of the world's pacemakers and hundreds of millions of soft contact lenses are produced in Puerto Rico.
Little known is that Puerto Rico is also a "life science island"! There are 32 medical equipment and 35 pharmaceutical bases on the whole island of Puerto Rico, making it one of the most important medical product manufacturing centers in the world. Puerto Rico is crucial to the medical device industry. It can produce more than 2,500 different types of medical devices that are very important for human health.
Seven of the world's top 10 medical device companies have factories in Puerto Rico, and 15 of the world's top 20 category - III medical device manufacturers have bases in Puerto Rico, creating about 20,000 direct jobs in total.
90% of the world's pacemakers and hundreds of millions of soft contact lenses are produced in Puerto Rico. In addition, defibrillators, heart stents, pulmonary artery catheters, insulin pumps, blood glucose detectors and other medical devices are also produced on the island.
02 This small town occupies 55% of the global surgical instrument market!
Tuttlingen is a small town in Baden - Württemberg, Germany. With a total area of less than 800 square kilometers and a population of less than 40,000, it has more than 600 medical technology companies and is known as the "Global Capital of Surgical Instruments"…
Relevant data shows that the total annual sales in Tuttlingen is as high as 600 million euros, accounting for 55% of the global surgical instrument market with a total scale of 650 million euros (converted into about 26.2 billion yuan in RMB according to the official data, mainly passive low - value instruments such as surgical knives).
The surgical instrument cluster in Tuttlingen produces and sells 20 million sets of medical equipment annually, with a total annual sales volume of up to 600 million euros; the annual sales volume of surgical instruments (referring to surgical knives, surgical forceps, medical tweezers, etc.) accounts for 55% of the global surgical instrument market with a total scale of 650 million euros; the annual production capacity of endoscopes and minimally invasive instruments is 2 million euros; the output of implants accounts for 17% of the total implant output in Germany.
From the former "City of Knives" to the current "Global Capital of Surgical Instruments", the small town of Tuttlingen has adopted the development model of "anchor company" + 90% small and medium - sized enterprises according to local conditions, integrating history and the forefront, and combining traditional manufacturing and modern technology, thus becoming the largest medical device industry cluster in Europe.
03 This small town is a leading manufacturing center for dialyzers and ECMO
Mirandola is a small town in the Province of Modena, Emilia - Romagna Region, Italy. It is the largest medical device cluster in Italy and the third largest in the world.
The Mirandola medical device cluster mainly produces, designs and manufactures disposable medical plastic products such as dialyzers for artificial dialysis and oxygenators for ECMO. The Mirandola cluster has about 300 medical device companies and is known as the "Silicon Valley of Italian Biomedicine", making Italy the third largest medical equipment market in the EU after Germany and France. In 2020, the Mirandola medical device cluster created a value of 1.6 billion euros (converted into about 12.1 billion yuan in RMB) for Italy.
Mirandola is a world - leading manufacturing center for ECMO and dialyzers, the largest medical device cluster in Italy and the third largest in the world. The Mirandola cluster has about 300 medical device companies and is known as the "Silicon Valley of Italian Biomedicine", making Italy the third largest medical equipment market in the EU after Germany and France.
Nowadays, the Mirandola medical device cluster is the headquarters of one - fifth of Italy's medical equipment companies and generates about 30% of the annual revenue of the entire Italian medical device industry.
04 80% of the world's cardiovascular stents are actually produced on this island!
A small island in Europe can produce 80% of the world's cardiovascular stents, 75% of knee implants, 50% of ventilators, 30% of contact lenses and 25% of insulin pumps. It is Ireland, a rising star in European medical devices.
Ireland's medical device industry has ranked among the top five global medical technology centers and can compete with Massachusetts, Minnesota, California, etc. in the United States. Nine of the world's top ten medical technology companies have bases in Ireland.
According to statistics, Ireland has nearly 13 billion euros of medical technology exports annually and about 450 medical device companies. Among them, 60% are native Irish medical device companies. Irish medical device companies can design, produce and manufacture a series of medical devices in fields including infusion, anesthesia, cardiovascular, hemodialysis, orthopedic implants, continuous renal replacement therapy, etc.
Ireland is an important medical device importer for the United States and China in Europe, and the exported medical devices have had a profound impact on the world. 80% of the world's cardiovascular stents are manufactured in Ireland, and the export value of Irish heart stents reached 2 billion euros in 2020. Ireland manufactures 75% of the world's knee implants, with an export value of 1.3 billion euros in 2020. In addition, 50% of the world's ventilators, 30% of contact lenses and 25% of insulin pumps are all produced and manufactured in Ireland.
Nowadays, Ireland has formed a medical device ecosystem, with close connections among universities, start - ups, multinational companies, venture capital, suppliers and supporting industries.
05 The world's largest imaging equipment cluster was born in this small town
The town of Erlangen in Bavaria, Germany is the headquarters of Siemens Healthcare and is known as the "Siemens City". More than half of the residents in the town are employees of Siemens (the headquarters of Siemens Industry and Energy is also in Erlangen).
Erlangen is the third largest Siemens center in Germany after Berlin and Munich. The headquarters of Siemens Healthcare, Industry and Energy are all located here. The Greater Nuremberg metropolitan area where Erlangen is located has more than 80 universities and technical colleges, more than 65 hospitals, more than 20 scientific research institutions, treats more than 850,000 inpatients annually, and concentrates more than 500 medical device companies involved in imaging equipment, myopia surgery, lithotripsy, etc., among which there are many big names in medical technology and invisible champions in the medical device field. It is recognized as the "Medical Valley" in Bavaria. The good medical device industry development environment in Erlangen has played an important role in attracting brand enterprises to settle in. Centering on big brand companies, a number of innovative small and medium - sized enterprises have become the auxiliaries and supplements for the supporting production of these brand companies. Erlangen has thus become a medical device industry manufacturing center and has driven the development of the entire German medical device industry.
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