Bodycote's Derby, UK facility becomes first in Europe to receive MedAccred accreditation

BECOMES FIRST COMPANY IN EUROPE TO PASS CHALLENGING MEDACCRED AUDIT

Bodycote, the world’s largest heat treating services provider, is pleased to announce that its Derby, UK location is the first facility in Europe to earn the MedAccred accreditation underlining the high standards of quality achieved. The official approval was awarded on 7^th of April 2016.

MedAccred, administered by Performance Review Institute (PRI), is an industry managed approach to ensuring critical manufacturing process quality throughout the medical device supply chain. It establishes stringent consensus audit criteria based on industry and specific OEM requirements that ensure compliance and quality. Adherence to these requirements leads to greater process discipline, operational efficiency and ongoing improvement which results in higher quality and performance.

Strategically located in the East Midlands, Bodycote Derby, which offers heat treatment and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) services, is fast becoming a centre of excellence serving the medical device and implants markets for the UK, Ireland and Europe. Bodycote continues to invest in new capacity and technology to support opportunities within the growing medical industry for classic heat treatment and HIP along with its Specialty Stainless Steel Processes (S³P) and Ion Implantation services in Europe. For Bodycote, the benefits of MedAccred to the supplier are evident. The process provides for consistent and standardised critical process audits which result in fewer redundant onsite audits by multiple OEMs and first tier customers. The MedAccred certification should reinforce customer confidence in Bodycote as a premier quality provider of heat treating.

Joe Pinto, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Performance Review Institute, the organisation which administers the MedAccred program on behalf of the medical device industry, sent his congratulations to the team at the Bodycote Derby facility:

We are delighted that Bodycote has the honour of becoming the first company to receive an accreditation from MedAccred in Europe. To be the first in anything demonstrates a high level of foresight and commitment to a long term strategy. The MedAccred audit is challenging and in achieving accredited status, Bodycote’s Derby facility has proven it has the capability to meet and exceed the requirements of its medical customers. The entire team should be proud of their success.