Arrotek Medical, based in Sligo, Ireland, and North Attleboro, Massachusetts-based NeedleTech Products are merging under the Arrotek brand. Both Arrotek and NeedleTech have strong records in the medical device industry, serving a broad range of customers that include original equipment manufacturers, medical device startups and corporations. 

NeedleTech Products is a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) serving several markets, including interventional radiology, interventional oncology, sports medicine, pain management, pharmaceutical and spine. NeedleTech provides components and finished devices to many of the top medical device companies worldwide. 

Arrotek Medical is a medical device design and development company that specializes in catheter design and development, advanced catheter technologies, minimally invasive medical devices, braid-reinforced catheters, coil reinforced catheters, smart catheter technologies, ultra-thin-walled catheters and embedded technologies. 

The strengthened, combined company will offer extended and enhanced medical device design and manufacturing services to medtech organizations across the globe, particularly in the United States and the European Union. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. 

According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction marks the 17th CDMO transaction of the year. By comparison, there were 30 CDMO deals reported between January 1, 2022, and November 10, 2022.