OrthoGrow Distribution welcomes Erik Van Mechelen, joining the business development team. Erik started his career at DePuy and built 24 years of extensive sales & marketing as well as distribution management experience since. Before OrthoGrow, he was a key account and business development manager at Zimmer-Biomet Belgium. Next to our distribution activities, Erik will also be available as an experienced consultant for Master Distribution and Sales Advisory services projects.  

Alain Inghelbrecht has joined OrthoGrow Distribution as Independent Medical Sales Representative, to promote our DJO Surgical and LINK product portfolio in the West of Belgium. Alain has built over 10 years of sales & marketing experience at DePuy (Johnson & Johnson) and 4 years as an independent sales expert. He will also support our customers as an experienced Sales & Marketing Consultant within OrthoGrow Advisory services. ​

OrthoGrow is pleased and proud to announce it has moved office to its new headquarters at the Corporate Village, DaVincilaan 1 in Zaventem, Belgium. Located in between Brussels ringway and a large garden area, only 5 minutes from Brussels Airport, conveniently with a direct shuttle in between, our office at the brand new third floor provides lots of meeting facilities and a business lounge to interact optimally with our clients. We will be in the very heart of business activity with Microsoft, Sony and Johnson&Johnson as some of the many corporate new neighbors. Next to our clients, OrthoGrow also thought of its highly appreciated team, since we will have dedicated parking, a fitness area, a corporate restaurant and many more facilities at disposal. 

OrthoGrow Distribution announces a distribution deal with Osartis, former aap Biomaterials (Germany). The company has been focusing on development of medical biomaterials and PMMA bone cement for more than 20 years. These bone cements for orthopaedics are mainly developed and manufactured to be marketed to global orthopaedic companies, but in addition same high-quality own branded products are distributed worldwide. OrthoGrow will sell Osartis bone cements and accessories onto the BeNeLux market. Learn more about the portfolio at the Osartis product pages. 

OrthoGrow Distribution announces an exclusive distributorship deal with Anika Therapeutics (Bedford, MA, USA). Anika is recognized worldwide as a pioneer in hyaluronic acid (HA) therapeutic products for tissue protection, healing and repair. It is considered one of the worldwide key vendors in the HA market. OrthoGrow Distribution will bring viscosupplements Orthovisc, single-injection Monovisc and latest innovation Cingal to the BeNeLux. Cingal is the first and only approved hyaluronic acid (HA) plus steroid combination product, proven to provide fast acting and long lasting pain relief. Learn more about our HA portfolio at the Anika product pages. 

OrthoGrow is delighted to announce the opening of its US office, OrthroGrow USA Inc., in Boston, Massachusetts. This enables OrthoGrow to extend its gateway into Europe onto American soil, and strengthens its service offering in the US market, by providing a more convenient, efficient touch-point for customers and medical device companies looking into EU market introduction. The opening of this new office completes the first stage in establishing a US presence, which in the future will be followed with the launch of a commercial organization. OrthoGrow USA Inc. will have offices in the Cambridge Innovation Center. 

Reimbursement by RIZIV/INAMI of the Reversed Shoulder Prosthesis (RSP) by DJO Surgical will become effective June 1st in Belgium. The Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis is a forward-thinking reverse and the first reverse shoulder design to successfully incorporate a center of rotation (COR) lateral to the glenoid. It established a solid and trustworthy position based on excellent results within the US market, and will now become commercially available in Belgium for the first time ever. 

​Learn more at the DJO product pages. 

OrthoGrow Distribution has partnered with LGMediQs. LGMediQs is a young and dynamics Belgian company which outsources professional care assistants. The partnership will enable OrthoGrow Distribution to support its customers even better with skilled and experienced technical guidance at any time.  

​Lloyd's Register issued OrthoGrow its Certificate of Approval to the ISO13485:2016 standard within the scope of sale and distribution of medical devices including implants to physicians, hospitals and distributors and taking up the role of Authorised Representative, importer and/or distributor. Hereby, OrthoGrow Distribution emphasizes its unique capability of acting as a true strategic distribution partner, as well as a product and service provider - assuring sales, support and administrative requirements are taken care of to the highest standards in the industry - towards both our suppliers and our customers. It shows once more, OrthoGrow is not simply a consultant, nor just a distributor; rather, we are a collaborative partner sharing your ambition within the same superior quality standards. 

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OrthoGrow Distribution is exhibiting its full orthopaedic implant portfolio at the Orthopaedica Belgica conference in Brussels on May 3 and 4. Come and visit us at the OrthoGrow booth. 

OrthoGrow Advisory was featured in a publication by PwC, a global quality audit, tax and consulting firm. PwC reached out to OrthoGrow for a project with CADskills, a Belgian start-up that designs and produces 3D-printed patient-specific implants, and required a partner to support its international expansion. "While PwC has the global reach and required financial know-how, with CADskills working in such niche domain, we sought to make sure we had specific knowledge of the product and market for it. For that we reached out to OrthoGrow. Its involvement in the process filled our product-specific knowledge gap, helping to further increase efficiency." stated PwC.

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