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A strategic alliance formed with a California company could provide a new growth driver for a medical device maker that's made Grand Rapids its innovation hub responsible for launching all new products.
In building its intellectual-property and product-development base in Grand Rapids, ATEK Medical Manufacturing wants to play into the community's economic development strategy of building life sciences into a far larger economic sector, particularly medical devices.
The company on average launches 12 to 15 new products a year. All production is initially based in Grand Rapids during a new product's early life cycle.
The strategic alliance announced this month with Solectron should accelerate ATEK Medical Manufacturing's growth and allow it to tap global markets.
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