MedTech Dive May 15, 2024
Siemens said the facility will support 1,300 jobs, including the more than 600 people it currently employs in the area.
Dive Brief:
- Siemens Healthineers is investing 250 million pounds ($314 million) in a facility to make imaging technology in the U.K.
- The site in Oxford, England, which Siemens expects to open in 2026, will produce technology for cutting the amount of helium required by MRI machines.
- Siemens said in the May 10 announcement that the facility will support 1,300 jobs, including the more than 600 people it currently employs in the area. The company has recently laid off diagnostic staff in the U.S. and Europe.
Dive Insight:
MRI machines use liquid helium to cool their superconducting magnets....
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