NuMED Company Profile
With
over 40 years experience in the cardiovascular catheter field,
Mr.
Allen J. Tower, the President and current CEO of NuMED, has
established a proud legacy in helping children around the world with
congenital heart defects.
NuMED,
Inc. and NuMED Canada Inc., manufacturers of
angioplasty and valvuloplasty catheters, have a long-standing commitment in meeting
and satisfying their customers’ expectations
and improving the quality
of life of the patients by providing alternatives to surgery.
In
1982, NuMED, Inc. was founded as a flagship company in Hopkinton, New
York which consists of a manufacturing facility, an extrusion facility
for working with and extruding a full range of catheter materials, and
a fully equipped research and development department for designing,
testing and introducing many of the new catheters.
In
1990, NuMED Canada Inc. was founded in Cornwall, Ontario at first as a
distribution facility to sell and market the medical devices purchased
from the parent company to cater to the worldwide market with the
intent of establishing a manufacturing department.
It
has since expanded into a new facility manufacturing products that
are shipped to over 50 countries worldwide.
In
2000, NuMED Canada Inc. purchased a new building (18,000 square ft.)
in the downtown area of Cornwall, Ontario to move their operations in
a larger manufacturing facility which today has 2 clean rooms
dedicated to the production of angioplasty and valvuloplasty catheters
to meet the increased orders from all over the world.
In
2003, Mr. Allen J. Tower was the recipient of the PICS Award for
Outstanding Achievement in recognition of his innovative contribution
in the field of Pediatric Interventional Cardiology, presented to him in Orlando, Florida.
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