Assut Medical Sarl
Assut Medical Sàrl develops, manufactures and markets sterile surgical sutures. Among the few suture companies in the world to do so, Assut Medical Sàrl produces its own atraumatic surgical needles with its own-built machines and equipment, with decades of experience. Whether absorbable natural and synthetic sutures or non-absorbable sutures, Assut sutures meet the Surgeon’s modern requirements. Our assortment allows us to challenge the largest multinational competitors and we present ourselves as an alternative to these large groups. The Assut Medical group of companies employ over 150 people and are constantly on alert to satisfy daily challenging needs in the surgical and medical field around the world with their dedicated and enthusiastic staff and employees.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About us
With our factory situated in the Swiss watch-industrial region where the production of fine precision products are a part of the Swiss heritage, our in-house technicians and outside technical consultants are a recognized asset.
Our internally designed and self-built, latest generation automatic needle production machines, operating since 2010, result from this heritage. Assut sutures are designed and made for all surgical specialties, from the finest needle and USP size of thread to the largest retention needle and thickest USP suture size.
History
Our sterile surgical sutures have been produced in Switzerland since 1962 when Mr. Willy Baerfuss and his friends Dr. Jean-Michel Junod, Surgeon FMH and Louis Chassot, Pharmacist founded the company Sutramed Sàrl. in the watch/precision industry region of Switzerland.
In the early 1970’s, the joint-venture company Astra-Sutramed SA was formed in Lausanne together with the Swedish pharmaceutical group Astra AB to market the products in Scandinavia under the brand name Astra sutures. This successful venture made the company decide to market the products worldwide under that brand until Astra AB in the mid 1980s concentrated itself again on pharmaceuticals and decided not to be involved any longer in medical devices.
As a consequence, the Lausanne based marketing company was renamed Assut SA and the brand changed to Assut sutures.
In 1996, after a re-organization, the company became Assut Medical Sàrl with headquarters in Pully-Lausanne and production facilities remaining at the same industrial site. It is 100% family Baerfuss owned and heading toward the third generation. Increased activities in marketing, R&D and product innovation with a renewed technical team give the assurance of a constant and modern upgrading of service
to the surgical field worldwide.
Since 1998, Assut sutures have been certified CE and are nowadays marked and certified CE-0344 by Dekra Certification B.V., the Netherlands. Assut sutures are produced according to the US and European Pharmacopeia.
Swiss Assut made products are present in over 50 countries through exclusive or independent national distributors and are used daily worldwide, inclusive in Switzerland. Famous International health organizations are among our regular cu tomers. The worldwide network of distributors are constantly in contact with us and each distributor is known personally to us. 2011 is the year when we launched Assut sutures on the Chinese market, where Swiss quality finds high recognition.
The South American market has been serviced since 1992 by our wholly owned subsidiary Assut Medical Ltda, also certified ISO 13485:2016 by BSI.
Worldwide Presence
Swiss Assut made products are present in over 50 countries through exclusive or independant national distributors and are used daily worldwide, inclusive in Switzerland.