BD today announced additional investments in its U.S. manufacturing network to add capacity for critical medical devices, including syringes, needles and IV catheters.
As part of the company’s 2024 investment of more than $10 million to expand manufacturing capacity, new needle and syringe production lines have been installed at the BD plants in Connecticut and Nebraska. One line is already fully operational with additional lines expected to start up in the coming months.
These new lines will boost BD’s capacity of domestically manufactured safety-engineered injection devices by more than 40 percent and conventional syringes by more than 50 percent, adding hundreds of millions of units annually to support U.S. health care delivery such as hospital procedures, vaccinations, medication preparation and drug delivery to patients. In addition, BD has hired more than 215 full-time employees at its facilities in Nebraska and Connecticut to support the increased production.
BD also has plans for more than $30 million in investments in 2025 to expand manufacturing capacity for IV lines at its plant in Utah to support continued growth in catheter solutions. This follows the company’s 2024 investment of more than $2 million for IV line improvements that resulted in increased IV catheter output by more than 40 million units annually.
BD operates more than 30 manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States, which represent an important part of the backbone of the U.S. medical product supply chain. These facilities employ more than 10,000 people and are spread across 17 states and Puerto Rico.