Selzach
Selzach, Switzerland
Markus Borkenhagen
Senior Director Operations
Plant Manager
- Location Name
- Selzach
- Short Description
- Address Label
- Address:
- Address
- Stryker GmbH Bohnackerweg 1 CH-2545 Selzach Switzerland
- Business Home Page Label
- Business Home Page
- Phone Numbers Label
- Phone:
- Phone Numbers
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+41 (0)32 641 6666
Fax:
+41 (0)32 641 6660 - Email Label
- Emails
Osteo AG
1963 - Founding of Osteo AG in Altreu
Übernahme durch Stryker
1996 - Takeover of Osteo AG by the Stryker Corporation
Integration Howmedica Trauma Produktion
2000 - Production of the plate and screw systems made by Howmedica Trauma - taken over by Stryker - is moved to Selzach
Integration SBi
2011 - Production by Small Bones Innovations - taken over by Stryker - is moved to Selzach
Umzug nach Selzach
1984 - Osteo AG moves to Selzach near Solothrun
Stryker Trauma AG
2000 - Osteo AG renamed Stryker Trauma Selzach AG
Integration Memometal
2011 - Production by Memometal SA - taken over by Stryker - is moved to Selzach
Stryker GmbH
2015 - Renamed Stryker GmbH
Facts about Selzach
>600
Employees
103,000
sq. ft. production area
4-6%
Apprenticeship rate
ISO 13485
ISO 45001
OHSAS
18001
Sample production for medical technology
The fact that high-precision industry is at home at the Selzach site is obvious at first glance of the production hall. The striking new building at the village entrance accommodates numerous modern CNC machining centres; the rooms are almost clinically clean; there are no loud noises. Manufacture is carried out according to the production cell principle. Individual teams are responsible for the overall production process – from the planning, through manufacture and quality assurance, to warehousing. What 50 years ago started as a company called Osteo AG has now grown into an important employer in the region. The Stryker Corporation took over the company in 1996, gradually expanded it, and concentrated production competences here from other parts of the group. The Solothurn community has meanwhile become the specialist within the Stryker Corporation for producing screws, plates, instruments and external fixation systems for treating broken bones. The high level of training in the precision industry, firmly anchored in the region, and the technical expertise and high level of automation speak for the site. So it was only logical to integrate two purchases, MemoMetal and Small Bones Innovations and both their production departments, into Selzach’s production site. But Selzach is not just production. About 80 highly qualified engineers at the site are busy working on the development of new products, and surgeons come to the Training Centre from all over the world to practice their work with products from Selzach. It is no accident that the new building looks like a mixture of campus and manufacturing.