Somerset, Wisconsin – SMC Ltd., a medical device contract manufacturer with locations in California, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Ohio, and India, announces a new facility in Costa Rica.  
 
With over a decade of experience in Costa Rica, SMC’s newest medical facility will be located in the Coyol free trade zone centrally located in San Jose, Costa Rica.  With a strong stable environment, highly educated workforce, intellectual property protection, and easy access to North America, Asia, and Europe, SMC’s Costa Rica offers customers a low cost country option with the benefits of a U.S. based organization. SMC Costa Rica facility will provide customers with full device manufacturing including: custom molding, assembly, packaging and full supply chain management on-site.  
 
“With our already long history of high quality component manufacturing in Costa Rica, we are now able to offer our customers a state-of-the-art facility for clean room device assembly and testing.” stated Bob Stoesser, Vice President and General Manager of Western and Central America. SMC Ltd. President, Chetan N. Patel continued, “With the addition of Costa Rica to our global footprint, SMC is able to support the needs of our U.S. based customers who have facilities in Central America as well as provide a Best Cost Country option for higher labor projects serving the U.S. market.”  
 
About SMC Ltd.
SMC Ltd. is a global contract manufacturer offering complete design, molding services, and finished devices for the medical and pharmaceutical industries. With locations in Wisconsin, Ohio, Massachusetts, California, Costa Rica, and India, SMC’s facilities provide over 500,000 square feet dedicated to medical manufacturing. The Company’s medical operations offer ISO 13485, quality systems, white room, class 7 and 8 clean rooms with services including; design, engineering, thermoplastic molding (including 2-shot), LIM (liquid injection molding), micro molding, secondary operations, project management, supply chain management, validation, packaging, assembly, and sterilization management of finished devices. www.smcltd.com
 
For More Information:
Christie Wanderer – Marketing
SMC Ltd.
330 SMC Drive
Somerset, WI 54025
715.247.3500
www.smcltd.com
Christie.wanderer@smcltd.com