Orthopaedics & Traumatology

Orthopaedics and trauma surgery are the largest customer market in DACH medical technology: joint replacement, osteosynthesis, spinal systems, sports medicine and hand surgery all draw on a shared network of manufacturers, contract manufacturers and service providers. The field in the register is correspondingly broad — from companies placing complete hip systems on the market through the machining specialist for bone screws to the test laboratory for mechanical testing to ASTM F543.

The manufacturing side is characterised by titanium and implant steel machining, additive manufacturing for patient-specific components and the production of instruments for the associated surgical trays. Anyone supplying here needs, alongside ISO 13485, above all demonstrable experience with the relevant material standards of the ISO 5832 series and validated cleaning and passivation processes.

A note on filtering in this category: the boundary with the Implants & Osteosynthesis category is fluid — that is where the manufacturing-focused suppliers sit, while this category holds the discipline-specific providers including instrument sets, positioning systems and operating theatre equipment. Many companies are deliberately listed in both categories.