New cleanroom for US supplier of advanced flexible materials
Boyd Technologies invests $1.5m as part of its continued focus on the fast growing medical device industry
Boyd Technologies, an international supplier of advanced flexible materials based in South Lee, Massachusetts, US, is investing around US$1.5m in a new cleanroom facility and capital equipment as part of its continued focus on the fast growing medical device industry. The building work is targeted for completion during the third quarter of 2013.
The company, which operates in the biopharmaceutical filtration and advanced wound care market areas, plans to validate its new ISO Class 7 cleanroom in the third quarter of 2013 and begin operations immediately.
'We are in a number of high level dialogues now with strategic partners, which will put these new assets immediately to work,' said Matthew Boyd, the company’s EVP of Business Development. 'We’ve spent a great deal of time specifying and customising these investments to meet the needs of our partners so we are thrilled to see these efforts coming to fruition.'
The company works with nonwovens, membranes, films, foils, foam, technical papers, extruded netting, technical textiles, and nanofibre materials. The materials are used in applications across medical, electrical and consumer markets.