Two of the world’s top-10 medical diagnostics companies, measured by 2012 sales to date, have significant North Carolina facilities.
BD Diagnostics, which has a facility in Burlington, is the seventh-largest diagnostics company, with year-to-date sales of $2.53 billion, according to a recent article in FiercePharmaManufacturing online newsletter.
One of the publication’s reporters, Mark Hollmer, wrote that Fierce asked data-gathering company EvaluateMedTech to compile the list of the top 10.
The 10th largest, BioMerieux, which has a factory in Durham, made the cut with $1.59 billion in sales so far this year.
Roche led the list, at $7.42 billion in sales.
Others, in descending order, include:
- Siemens, $5.15 billion
- Danaher, $4.37 billion
- Abbott, at $4.3 billion
- Thermo Fisher Scientific, at $2.9 billion
- Johnson & Johnson, $2.12 billion
- Alere, at $2.1 billion
- Sysmex, at $1.78 billion
Thermo Fisher has hundreds of employees in North Carolina, many working at a manufacturing facility in Asheville, but so far the North Carolina workforce is not producing diagnostics.
(C) NC Biotech Center