TriVirix - Medical Life Science Equipment Contract Manufacturing, Box Build Final Assembly

	Chapel Hill, NC
Company Purpose	TriVirix International helps small and medium sized medical device companies launch, manufacture, and support their products. Alliance Manufacturing is TriVirix’ approach to ensuring that we are true partners in our customer’s business success. The unique elements of the service delivery include a pricing model that aligns our incentives for cost reduction; sharing of all production, quality, and cost information; and superior application of leading information technology.
Areas of Expertise	At TriVirix International, we understand that choosing a manufacturing partner is one of the most difficult and critical decisions our customers have to make. That’s why we work hard to provide comfort to you that we will take as much care designing, manufacturing, and servicing your product as you would. Our business philosophy is to provide you with as much comfort working with our facilities in Ireland and North Carolina as you would have working with a factory in your own building or right across the street. Transition to Production: Innovative project management to minimize time to market. Manufacturing: Low-cost assembly, resulting from a combination of value engineering, superior supply chain management, and rigorous quality control. Post-manufacturing services: IT-enabled order fulfillment, distribution support, and product servicing. Because of our unique manufacturing capabilities, our customers have been able to redirect valuable resources of time, energy, and capital into other vital areas like innovation and sales.
Materials Typically Used	PCBs Injection Molded Plastic Cables Pressure Formed Plastic Electronic Circuitry
1999 Revenue	TriVirix International, a medical device manufacturer headquartered in Chapel Hill, N.C., has closed on $3.5 million from five investment firms, including two in Northern Ireland, home of the company's manufacturing facility. We can make anything," West said, who added that TriVirix expects $5 million in revenues this year and "10 times that next year.
Performance History	We prefer to build relationships the old-fashioned way-- through mutual trust, high ethical standards, and integrity in every decision that we make on your behalf. Those principles are a driving force in the kinds of people we hire and the way we do work with our customers. Our customers need legally binding contractual protection. So we've written a standard Manufacturing and Services Agreement from the customer's perspective. That means our contract contains: Complete confidentiality Intellectual property protection. If you invent it or develop it, you keep it. If we invent it or develop it, you keep the intellectual property as well. Our business is helping companies that innovate medical devices; it's not competing against them. Generous warranty coverage
Competitive Standards	Trivirix' aim is to put in place systems to ensure that we act as our customer's manufacturing department. That means we offer: Open Book Accounting so you know the exact cost of the device we are bulding. Plus our pricing model provides Trivirix incentive to find cost reductions to share with you. Real Time Information Sharing via Alliance Net. AllianceNet is a proprietary Web portal we provide to our customers. It lets our customers monitor, online and in real-time, every piece of the production process, from our openm book accounting and cost-sharing system through assemble, testing, and inventory. In addition, we are leaders in use of information technology. Our business is powered by SAP, the IT oplatform preferred by most Fortune 500 companies. Our manufacturing location in Ireland provides US customers a launching pad into Europe, and our European customers a launching pad in the US. For US companies selling in the US, the savings from having our manufacturing location overseas far outweighs any extra expense from shipping costs.
Quality	We believe that our quality systems, standards, and policies exceed the expectations of our customers. Due to our economies of scale, and our singular focus on the medical device industry, we are able to build a quality system that in many cases exceeds a quality system that our customer can build with their own internal resources.
Production Facilities	TriVirix 18,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is ISO 9002 and EN46002 certified and FDA registered. This being a global company with 15 employees is a real challenge," said West, a Duke University-trained engineer, who'd never been to Ireland before he oversaw construction of a $4 million, 15,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Belfast.