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Croom Medical is now manufacturing patient-specific implants (PSI) for orthopedic OEMs, built to the OEM’s design, entirely in-house. The company delivers a finished, inspected implant in days rather than the weeks or months a complex supply chain typically takes.
The approach suits complex, low-volume devices where geometry and fixation matter, such as talus ankle implants, acetabular cups, interbody cages, revision cones, post-traumatic reconstruction implants and craniomaxillofacial implants.
The PSI capability runs on the same certifications, processes and quality culture Croom Medical uses to deliver implants at production scale. With 40 years of orthopedic manufacturing behind it, the company produces more than 250,000 knee systems a year from an ISO 13485:2016-certified, FDA-registered facility. It has operated in additive manufacturing since around 2010, building a dedicated R&D and engineering team that remains actively involved in research, and has produced over 60,000 additive-manufactured implants to date.
Croom Medical recently announced ACOT, the Advanced Centre of Orthopaedic Technologies under construction at its Limerick campus, which will bring further capacity and finishing capability in-house and make the company more vertically integrated still.
Patrick Byrnes, Chief Executive Officer of Croom Medical, said: “Patient-specific projects reward speed and control, and that is exactly what our vertically integrated model is built for. Bringing this capability in-house is a natural extension of 40 years of orthopaedic manufacturing and more than a decade in additive. We are well placed to support OEMs taking on patient-specific programmes, and we look forward to working with them on it.”
Source: Croom Medical
