SOMATEX® Medical Technologies signs cooperation agreement with Bloodline S.p.A. involving a total volume of EUR 1.2 m.
Teltow, May 17, 2005. SOMATEX® Medical Technologies consolidates its market leadership in the field of hematological-oncologic canula systems. The cooperation agreement with Italian company Bloodline S.p.A., a specialist in dialysis equipment and biopsy needles, allows a considerable expansion of the distribution network for SOMATEX® products.
In the next five years and starting now, Bloodline will sell hematological-oncologic canulas and other medical instruments from SOMATEX® in Italy and France as well as in North Africa and South America. In the same time span, Bloodline S.p.A. will also manufacture product components for SOMATEX® Medical Technologies GmbH.
For Bloodline, this cooperation primarily involves an extension of its competences as a supplier of medical needles. For SOMATEX, this cooperation agreement with a total business volume of EUR 1.2 million represents a ”solid basis for a considerable sales increase and a strengthening of our leading position in the market”, says Frank Kniep, Managing Director of SOMATEX® Medical Technologies.
Information on SOMATEX®
The company SOMATEX® Medical Technologies GmbH specializes in the development and manufacturing of disposable minimally invasive instruments in the areas of tumor ablation, vertebroplasty, biopsy and oncology.
In addition to the manufacturing of standard instruments for diagnostic and therapeutical procedures, SOMATEX® develops innovative special products and new instruments based on what treating physicians precisely need. Since 1992, the company constantly develops new medical therapy concepts and realizes them in their products in close cooperation with physicians, hospitals and university clinics. Its focus is set on methods and instruments allowing minimally invasive operations using magnetic resonance imaging. In the past few years, the SOMATEX® has also intensified its activities aiming at the development of new procedures and instruments used to treat painful vertebral compression fractures, for example caused by osteoporosis.
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