BETHLEHEM, Pa.- B. Braun has announced it will wind down operations of a medical device unit.<\/p>\n
B. Braun Interventional Systems (BIS) will be discontinued through a phased approach, the company said in a news release; commercial sales will continue through early 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is no immediate disruption to product supply, B. Braun said.<\/p>\n
The division’s product portfolio includes catheters used in\u00a0heart and vascular procedures, stents, drainage bags, and other surgical tools and devices.<\/p>\n
According to B. Braun’s website, the BIS division is based at its North American headquarters at 824 12th Avenue in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
A company spokesperson said the decision to close the division is part of ongoing efforts “to focus resources on strategic priorities and core businesses.”<\/p>\n
40 employees across the U.S. will be impacted, the spokesperson said. Those employees are being provided with transition support services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s the second restructuring announced for B. Braun in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the summer, B. Braun’s subsidiary\u00a0Central Admixture Pharmacy Services (CAPS) announced it was ending 503B compounding operations, which impacted 173 employees at a pair of locations in Upper Macungie Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Texas-based\u00a0Quva Pharma later announced it had acquired “a range of essential medications” from CAPS. Its 503B manufacturing facilities include a location outside Bloomsbury, New Jersey in Greenwich Township.<\/p>\n
According to its website, the B. Braun Group of Companies employs more than 64,000 employees in 64 countries. B. Braun’s global headquarters is based in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa.- B. Braun has announced it will wind down operations of a medical device unit. B. Braun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[43131,124654,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-303122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-b-braun","tag-b-braun-interventional-systems","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}