2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000

12/28/00 - UTI Corporation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise as much as $115MM in an initial public offering of its stock. The company designs and manufactures precision medical devices including orthopaedic implants and instruments. Its customers include Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Smith & Nephew and Stryker. (Reuters)

12/14/00 - ACT Medical and MedSource Technologies have entered an agreement to merge, forming the largest global integrated medical device design and manufacturing services company. The merger is expected to close by end of year and the resulting combined company will retain the MedSource Technologies, Inc. name. (Business Wire)

11/16/00 - Thornton Precision Components wins awards for forging and innovation. (Thornton Precision Components Ltd., 11/16/00.)

11/06/00 - Jet Engineering & Stealth Engineering & Technologies in local news. (Lansing State Journal)

10/02/00 - KomTeK and Palmer Manufacturing formed a joint venture to build a new facility in Tunisia where they will manufacture both custom and generic investment castings for the orthopaedic industry, among other things. Production should begin in mid-2001. Combined sales for the companies in 2000 will exceed $65MM. (KomTeK Inc., 10/02/00)

10/2000 - "Consolidation aftershock hits orthopaedic suppliers - Emergence of the Big 3?"
(Excerpt [PDF document] from the October/November 2000 issue of OrthoKnow®.)

09/25/00 - Symmetry Medical enters into equity investment agreement with Olympus Partners. (PR Newswire)

09/20/00 - Mettis Group acquires Ultrexx. (PR Newswire)