Medical Main Street has doubled the size of its medical device directory to help global manufacturers find suppliers in Oakland County and Michigan.
The 50-page Michigan Medical Device Manufacturers Directory will be distributed to attendees at the Medical Main Street annual meeting and networking event Nov. 3 at Oakland Community College's Highland Lake Campus student center.
"We make things here: cars, products for the defense industry and a range of consumer products," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said. "The infrastructure to support that manufacturing and the supply chain is all here. If you're in the medical device industry, you need to be here designing and making those products. We can help you do that."
The free directory will also be made available Nov. 3 online at MedicalMainStreet.com. It includes an alphabetical listing of 136 companies, with websites for each company. Sixty of the companies have locations in Oakland County. County staff can connect interested people directly to those companies. It has easy-to-read charts that identify companies by manufacturing processes such as injection molding, machining, engineering or precision cutting. It follows the inaugural directory that was created seven years ago. It was compiled with research done by the Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center and is the only directory of its kind in the state, said Irene Spanos, the county's director of economic development.
The event will be held at OCC's Highland Lakes Campus is at 7350 Cooley Lake Road in Waterford and runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon. There is no charge to attend but registration is required at MedicalMainStreet.com. A panel will discuss "Insights into the Health Care/Life Science Ecosystem."
Medical Main Street is an alliance of world-class hospitals and health systems, universities, medical device, biopharma companies and some of the country's leading medical professionals creating a global center of innovation in health care, research and development, education and commercialization in the life science industry.
Published: Tue, Oct 31, 2017
