Siemens Healthineers opens its biggest manufacturing plant in Bengaluru

The firm is also trying to create a start-up ecosystem to collaborate with healthcare start-ups and commercialise their ideas in the India market

As part of its India expansion plan, German medical technology company Siemens Healthineers has opened its biggest India manufacturing facility in Bengaluru. Spread over an area of 5,000 square feet, facility is co-located with the company’s R&D centre here, the biggest for the diagnostics imaging company globally.

The manufacturing facility will have two production lines, one for its mobile C-arm for surgery called Cios Fit and computed tomography (CT) systems based on its Somatom.go platform. The company would soon be going worldwide with the locally manufactured C-arm and start selling the product beginning with emerging markets. The Cios Fit equipment