Founded in 1987, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. is a worldwide company engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of proprietary disposable medical devices used in interventional and diagnostic procedures, particularly in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy. Its primary products consist of inflation devices used in angioplasty and stent placement; diagnostic and therapeutic catheters used for various procedures in cardiology and radiology; diagnostic and hydrophilic products used to manage and monitor the administration of contrast media and other fluid solutions; thrombolytic catheters and fluid dispensing systems; and embolotherapeutic products for the treatment of uterine fibroids, hypervascularized tumors, and arteriovenous malformations.
Headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Merit employs approximately 2,300 people worldwide. Merit serves client hospitals with a domestic and international sales force totaling approximately 130 individuals as well as select distributors. These highly trained individuals and organizations market Merit's products both domestically and internationally by calling directly on physicians and clinicians who use the products in hospitals and clinics worldwide.
Merit has expanded from a small manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City to five separate facilities in the metropolitan area. The Company has a manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, enabling Merit to provide direct distribution to European accounts. Merit also has a catheter manufacturing facility located in Angleton, Texas; a procedure tray and pack manufacturing facility in Richmond, Virginia; European headquarters in Maastricht, The Netherlands; manufacturing facilities in Venlo, The Netherlands and near Paris, France; and offices in Rockland, Massachusetts, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Beijing.
From its inception in 1987, ISO 13485—certified Merit Medical has been a leader in designing and manufacturing medical devices, both for its direct sales force and its OEM partners worldwide. Merit manufactures hundreds of different products, from patented devices such as the VacLok® negative pressure syringe and the Monarch® digital inflation device, to standard molded components such as stopcocks and luers. With nearly 2,000 employees at locations in the U.S.A., Ireland, and The Netherlands, Merit continues to invest in the technologies, products, and facilities to be a leader in the medical device industry.
- Adaptors & Rotators
- Caps & Covers
- Catheters
- Catheters—Accessories
- Check Relief Valves
- Coatings
- Coaxial Introducers
- Custom Kits, Trays & Sets
- Flow Control Switch
- Fluid Administration
- Guide Wires
Hemostasis Valves & Y Adaptors- Inflation Devices
- Luer Activated Valves
- Luers & Connectors
- Manifolds
- Marker Bands
- Needles
- Pen & Labels
- Product Development Kit
- Safety & Waste Collection
- Scalpels
- Sheath Introducers
- Snares
- Stopcocks
- Surgical Products
- Suture Retention Device
- Syringes
- COP
- Coronary Control
- Medallion
- VacLok
- X-Change
- Torque Devices
- Transducers
- Tubing
- Tuohy Borst
Facilities
South Jordan, Utah (manufacturing and distribution)
Merit corporate headquarters and primary manufacturing and distribution facility.
- Clean room assembly and production
- R&D and pilot production clean rooms
- Pressure Sensor production, including wafer fabrication
- injection and insert molding
- automated finished goods warehouse
Murray, Utah (manufacturing)
Merit manufacturing site a few miles north of our main Utah campus.
- Clean room assembly and production
Galway, Ireland (manufacturing)
Merit's principal office and manufacturing facility for European operations.
- Clean room assembly and production
- R&D center for diagnostic guide wires
Venlo, The Netherlands (manufacturing)
Headquarters for Merit Medical Coatings division.
- Primary facility for coating of wires and tubing for the medical industry
Angleton, Texas (manufacturing and distribution)
Merit R&D, manufacturing and distribution site for catheter related products
Chester, Virginia (manufacturing and distribution)
Merit facility for the production and distribution of custom procedure trays
Maastricht, The Netherlands (distribution)
Merit's European headquarters and distribution center for all of Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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