BD, a member of Bio Nebraska, has announced plans to enhance U.S. manufacturing of critical medical devices, with Nebraska playing a key role in this effort.
Announcement by BD
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced additional investments in its U.S. manufacturing network to add capacity for critical medical devices, including syringes, needles and IV catheters, to meet the ongoing needs of the nation’s health care system.
As part of the company’s 2024 investment of more than $10 million to expand manufacturing capacity, new needle and syringe production lines have been installed at the BD plants in Connecticut and Nebraska. One line is already fully operational with additional lines expected to start up in the coming months.
These new lines will boost BD’s capacity of domestically manufactured safety-engineered injection devices by more than 40 percent and conventional syringes by more than 50 percent, adding hundreds of millions of units annually to support critical U.S. health care delivery such as hospital procedures, vaccinations, medication preparation and drug delivery to patients. In addition, BD has hired more than 215 full-time employees at its facilities in Nebraska and Connecticut to support the increased production.