Medical technology firm BD to invest $60 mn in US facility

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a global medical technology company, plans to invest $60 million to upgrade its facility at Columbus-East (Nebraska, USA) into a plastic moulding manufacturing center of excellence by 2021.

The investment will add 69,000 sq ft to the facility to transform it into the flagship plastic moulding manufacturing facility for BD, and it will become one of the largest and most sophisticated plastic moulding plants in the world. The new facility will centralise and insource a majority of BD’s North American plastic moulding production that is currently produced by third-party manufacturers. BD is one of the largest users of plastic moulded products in the world, with more than 700 billion units manufactured each year.