San Diego-based NuVasive Inc. will have 300 workers in West Carrollton this year, after it consolidates a current Fairborn workforce there.
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“It’s safe to say with continued growth, we won’t stay at 300 (employees) forever,” Ruben Perez, NuVasive senior director of manufacturing, said Thursday. “But right now, we have line of sight at 300.”
After that?
“I don’t want to give you a number,” Perez said. “But it’s going to get bigger.”
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With a $3.74 billion market capitalization and about 2,300 employees globally, NuVasive as an individual company is a chunk of that overall medical device market. Since early November, shares of NuVasive (NASDAQ: NUVA) are up 24 percent. On Tuesday, those shares reached a 52-week high of $75.10. (They closed Thursday at
The company specializes in minimally disruptive surgical repair devices for the spine.
“People want to stay active through their later years in life,” Perez said in an interview at the company’s 180,000-square-foot Liberty Lane facility. “We provide solutions to really help people rejoin their active lives.”
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Current plans will fill about 110,000 square feet of the new plant, at 805 Liberty Lane, the former home of robotics producer Motoman easily visible off southbound Interstate 75.
Today, the plant accommodates three production shifts five days a week; in time it will reach three shifts seven days a week.
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