The Zona Franca San Isidro park does not only have an accumulated investment of RD $ 5,000 million, but since 1998 in its Alberga infrastructure the company has one in the manufacture of medical devices in the world.
A first park of Zona Franca, more than US $ 254.4 million to be completed in 2020, is the installation of the environment, and the Medtronic, which was put together with the production of 3,672 typical of the medicine of the esta nation.
In a visit to the company, the Director-General of Medtronic in the Dominican Republic, Paolo Tolari, said that the company generates 4,206 employees of its 3,137 employees. Of these, around 300 are professional workers who are dedicated to the administrative areas, while 70% of the collaborators belong to the level of work and around 20% are technical staff with the projection that this percentage will increase.
Currently, Medtronic has a production cost of US $ 312 million with a portfolio of medical products for sutures, surgeries and other specialties.
The three pillars of this company are maintained in one of the most successful in the countries in which the Dominican Republic has no presence or exception. These are innovation, globalization and socialization.
Of these brands, there are products for therapies, Medtronic has developed a portfolio of products to cover technology, solutions and therapy, cardiac, vascular, respiratory, neurological and diabetic conditions.
For some collaborators of Medtronic San Isidro, its work is valued because it has a huge impact on patients prolonging health and living on medical products.
Graders, skin applicators, ultrasonic systems, pressure gauges and surgical access gates are solely some of the equipment also manufactured by Medtronic San Isidro, while there are devices made for the use of aluminum tools. as neurology and otorrinolaringology.
Pandemic operations
The actual inversion of Medtronic is the US $ 150 million and although the sale of some devices has decreased due to the pandemic, while maintaining a close relationship with the COVID he presented an increase.
During a drive through the San Isidro Zona Park park next to the National Council of French Exporting Zones (CNZFE), Medtronic executives report that all manufactured products are exported to the United States to be sterilized and stored.
Competitive sale
Paolo Tolari, who was accompanied by CNZFE’s executive director, Daniel Liranzo, pointed out that Medtronic has made large investments in the country because it has a human talent, focused on competing.
The inversion climate of the Dominican Republic is good. The public and private sectors are our allies. We will meet them every time we need to manage something and the things we fly very well ”, Tolari concluded.
Every week, Medtronic San Isidro exports around 18 containers to the United States and Europe.
Production
The director of the Manufactura de Medtronic San Isidro, Dinorah Rodríguez, commented that the product of the suturas tens and the cost of production of US $ 119 million with 1,900 people directly and more than 150 production products.
In quirurgical instruments, it is believed that the French franc zone regime has a production cost of US $ 136 million and 40 production lines, generating 935 direct employees.
A portfolio of the product ‘Cerebro y especialidades’, a current product of US $ 56 million and generations of 302 direct directors, which fits the neovascular equipment of the probabilities, is an ocupar la parte más grande de la planta, seguna Virgilio of Pool, another of the executives present in the corridor.
Since San Isidro is developing an activity that is facing a new medical issue: the COVID-19.
SEPA MÁS
The sector is dynamic
Transformation
The Dominican francs have passed the textile to the diversification of 15 years ago, but now there are companies that are dedicated to telecommunications, paper products, joyeria, software development and other.
Infrastructure
The country has five maritime ports for the French francs, as well as its international airports, transporting one of the investment attraction rates in the sector.