Croom Medical, based in Limerick, Ireland, has broken ground on an €18 million, 38,000 sq ft Advanced Centre of Orthopaedic Technologies (ACOT), the largest investment in the company’s 42-year history.

Patrick Byrnes, CEO of Croom Medical, stated on LinkedIn, “ACOT isn’t about adding capacity. It’s a shift into a true R&D and industrialisation centre of excellence, built to develop new capability and transfer it into validated production at scale.”

ACOT has been designed to bring multiple manufacturing processes under one roof, including electropolishing, anodising, lights-out machining and grinding, palletised loading, vacuum furnace heat treatment, multi-material Additive Manufacturing, automated polishing and finishing, digital inspection, and clean-and-pack operations.

The facility aims to provide a fully integrated production cycle, taking metal and plastic components to finished implants for OEMs across shoulder, hip, knee, spine, trauma and sports medicine product lines.

Byrnes continued, “The industry is moving toward cementless fixation, robotic-assisted surgery, and additive at scale. That demands advanced technology, advanced surface finishing, and vertically integrated supply chains. ACOT is designed to achieve this.”

The company has not yet confirmed a completion date for ACOT.

Author: Andy Cormack