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Nordic market access

17/1/2019

OrthoGrow Distribution proudly announces a collaboration agreement with Innosurge, a Nordic distributor with sales activities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. This collaboration will allow OrthoGrow Distribution to expand its European market coverage to a total of seven countries now, and to offer its Master Distribution customers efficient and fast access to the Nordic market, next to OrthoGrow’s current sales activities within Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. OrthoGrow hereby further strengthens its role as a one-stop-shop to introduce innovative orthopedic products into the European market.

Innosurge is a Nordic founded company with years of experience within innovative surgery implants and instruments. It is headquartered in Randers, Denmark, and has offices and sales representation in Norway, Sweden and Finland.

orthogrow welcomes new team members

16/9/2018

OrthoGrow is pleased to announce the further expansion of its team.

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.

Tanguy de Schoutheete will reinforce our Quality and Regulatory consulting team within OrthoGrow Advisory as QARA Consultant. Tanguy has gained elaborate quality and regulatory experience, with a particular focus on European MDD and CE, within Belgian medical device companies such as Tita-Link and Orthogèse. Tanguy will allow OrthoGrow to answer the increasing demand from the domestic market for QARA support.

orthogrow moves Headquarter office

4/7/2018

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.

osartis distribution deal

2/7/2018

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.

ANIKA exclusive distribution announced

7/6/2018

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 opens US office

30/5/2018

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.

DJO surgical Reversed shoulder reimbursed

23/5/2018

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 partners LGmediqs

15/5/2018

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.

orthogrow receives ISO13485 certification

2/5/2018

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.

Learn more about our distribution services.

Orthogrow exhibiting at orthopaedica belgica

30/4/2018

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 featured in pwc publication

15/4/2018

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.

Read the full article here.

innovative heracles nail reimbursed

1/4/2018

Reimbursement of the Heracles femoral nail by 7s Medical was approved by RIZIV/INAMI. The nailing system, providing patient specific treatment options by a lag screw with proven thread and a blade with three wings for stable fixation in osteoporotic bone, as well as preserving reduction due to flat lateral design, is now commercially available in Belgium. Learn more about the Heracles nail characteristics at the 7s Medical product pages.

Orthogrow portfolio exceeds 6.000 implants

15/3/2018

Counting a full joint replacement portfolio in hip, knee and shoulder and an extensive trauma portfolio from renowned medical device manufacturers and specialists in their domains, OrthoGrow Distribution now is offering 6.118 RIZIV/INAMI notified implants, and hereby enters the top three largest orthopaedic implant portfolio distributors in Belgium. Learn more about our full portfolio in BeNeLux distribution.

Bodycad uni knee reimbursed in belgium

1/2/2018

Reimbursement of the Bodycad personalized unicompartmental knee system is approved by RIZIV/INAMI in Belgium. Hereby, Bodycad is the very first custom knee system reimbursed by the government on the Belgian market and now also commercially available as a very valuable alternative next to any standard uni knee on the Belgian market.

First personalized restoration procedures using Bodycad's personalized unicompartmental knee system were performed in the US and EU in September last year. "I was involved throughout the production of the personalized restoration." said Prof. Werner Siebert of the Vitos Orthopaedic Clinic in Kassel, Germany, and incoming President of the German Orthopaedic Society, who performed the procedure. "I provided patient imaging, consulted with the Bodycad PREPTech and then reviewed and approved the final design. The result was an exceptional fit for the patient."

Learn more about the personalized unicompartmental knee at the Bodycad product pages.

orthogrow Belgian agent for LINK hips

2/1/2018

LINK Orthopaedics (Hamburg, Germany) assigned OrthoGrow Distribution as their exclusive commercial agent in Belgium for the full hip arthroplasty and limb salvage portfolio. LINK intends to set standards with superior solutions and is represented in all major world markets. Next to megaprostheses and revision, OrthoGrow Distribution also offers innovative LINK short and cementless stems, both targeting young and active patients, as well as the Lubinus SP II, the most frequently used implant for cemented hip joint replacement in Sweden with a survival rate of 94,7% after 16 years. OrthoGrow can offer the IP cup and CombiCup for cementend and cementless fixation.

To learn more about the portfolio, visit the LINK product pages.

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