Terumo Medical Devices added nearly 100 jobs this year in Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor-based Terumo Medical Devices makes equipment used in heart surgeries to replace heart and lung function when those organs have to be stopped during a surgery. They also make products that are used in bypasses and artificial vascular grafts."We are the global leader in this market," says Barbara Schmid, the company's marketing communications manager. "Every cardiac operating room in the world, we figure has something from Terumo in it. We're a big fish in a little pond."

Terumo's Ann Arbor operations include corporate headquarters, research and development and a manufacturing facility. Since 2006, the Ann Arbor location  has grown from from 333 to 410 while still hiring. "We have been growing every year," says Schmid. The company also has three other manufacturing facilities in the country, with a total of 900 employees.

Terumo was founded in the late 1960s by Ann Arbor businessman Dick Sarns, who sold it to 3M in the late 1980s. In 1999, it was acquired by Tokyo-based Terumo Corporation, a global medical devices company with 12,000 employees worldwide.

Source: Barbara Schmid
Writer: Kelli B. Kavanaugh