Arrotek has been shortlisted for two awards at the inaugural Life Science Industry Awards. We are finalists in the Life Sciences Company of the Year – SME award, as well as the Best Engineering Project/Facility award. The Life Science Industry Awards was established to celebrate and recognise excellence in Ireland's life sciences sector. The awards are open to medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies with operations in Ireland, with the winners announced next month at an awards ceremony at the Crowne Plaza, Santry, Dublin. Richard McLoughlin, Sales and Marketing Manager at Arrotek, said: “We would have been delighted to have...
At Arrotek, we have been investing significantly in our capabilities and capacity over recent years to support our growth strategy. That growth can be seen in our production output figures, as the volume of products manufactured and shipped at our Sligo facility increased by 90 percent between 2020 and 2022. We have also just completed work on extending the facility. Arrotek provides medical device design, manufacturing, and regulatory services. We moved into our current purpose-built facility in Finisklin, Sligo in 2019. The new extension that we have just completed created an additional 20,000 sq. ft. of office and engineering space,...
Today is International Women's Day and the theme for 2023 is Embrace Equity. Equity involves recognising that providing people with equal levels of support and opportunity is not sufficient to achieve equality, as everyone starts from a different position and has different circumstances. To achieve equality, you need equity, where support and opportunity are provided based on personal requirements. This is a concept we embrace at Arrotek, but we wanted to get the first-hand experiences of some of our female employees. We talked to three to get their views on this year’s International Women's Day theme, Embrace Equity. Deirdre Caheny,...
Arrotek has been named as one of two finalists for the MedTech Company of the Year Award at the Irish MedTech Awards 2022. The Irish MedTech Awards are run by the Irish MedTech Association, Enterprise Ireland, and IDA Ireland. The MedTech Company of the Year Award is one of nine awards that will be announced at the MedTech Awards Ceremony in Galway at the start of December. The other finalist in the MedTech Company of the Year category is Cerenovus Galway. Richard McLoughlin, Sales and Marketing Manager at Arrotek said: “Being announced as a MedTech company of the year finalist...
Arrotek Medical has opened a new office in Massachusetts, USA. The office is part of our strategic growth plans and will enhance the service we offer to our growing client base in the US and Canada. Richard McLoughlin, Sales and Marketing Manager at Arrotek, said: “The United States has been an important market for us for many years now. It is a region where there are exciting new innovations being developed, including in the areas of minimally invasive medical devices, advanced catheter technologies, guidewires, and specialty needle devices. We are proud of the ground-breaking work we do with large companies,...
Arrotek is delighted to be a finalist in three award categories at tonight's Irish Manufacturing and Supply Chain awards 2022. The awards we are up for are: Product Innovation & Design Micro/SME Manufacturer of the Year Contract Manufacturer of the Year Congratulations to the other finalists in our award categories, as well as all the finalists for other awards. The winners are being announced at a ceremony in the Kilashee Hotel in County Kildare this evening.
Developing a partnership with a medical device design company is a big step on your product development journey. It makes sense to visit the company in person to meet the people and see the facilities that it offers. At Arrotek, we regularly host clients at our location in Sligo, Ireland. If you are considering visiting us here at Arrotek, what can you expect? How do you get here and what is Sligo like? We answer some of the most commonly asked questions below. Arrotek's Medical Device Design and Manufacturing Facility https://youtu.be/hOBQmWRhJzU Our purpose-built facility in Sligo currently covers 50,000 sq....
Back in 2007, Arrotek was a medical device start-up that was about to do something new – hire its first employee. That was 15 years ago this month, and the employee was Adrian Moran. Adrian is still with Arrotek today, so he has witnessed first-hand the changes as we have grown into a company with nearly 100 staff. “It was humble beginnings at the start,” said Adrian, “as when I joined, Arrotek operated from a single unit in a business park in Strandhill. The company has grown continuously since then, and it has been fantastic to be a part of...
International Women in Engineering Day is an annual event to celebrate the success of female engineers. It is also a day to highlight the underrepresentation of women in engineering, including in the medical device industry. According to Engineers Ireland, only 12 percent of engineering professionals are women. One of them is Arrotek's Paula Oliveira. Paula's story is inspirational, but it also puts a spotlight on some of the issues that are limiting efforts to get a better gender balance in the engineering sector. In telling her story, Paula highlights that a lot of engineers in the medical device industry have...
Multi-million-euro expansion and 100 new jobs for Sligo as medical device manufacturer Arrotek looks to the future Sligo medical device designer and manufacturer Arrotek is delighted to announce the planned creation of up to 100 new jobs after the company was granted planning permission for a 20,000sq ft extension to its headquarters in Sligo town. Arrotek is based in a purpose-built 50,000sq ft facility in the heart of the Medtech cluster in Finisklin Business park in Sligo, which was built in 2019 and features state-of-the-art manufacturing cleanrooms, laboratory, and engineering offices. It is expected that the additional 20,000sq ft will...
