Source:
The Communities of Tampa Bay |
Manufacturing
Excellence
The Tampa Bay area's
manufacturing cluster is diverse and much of it has a high
tech component. From food processing to packaging, pharmaceuticals
to defense, microelectronics to medical devices, Tampa Bay's
manufacturers are a powerful engine with the region.
Medical
Device Manufacturing
Tampa Bay ranks in the top 20 nationwide
for medical device manufacturing clusters. The industry employs
more than 10,000 people with an average wage in excess of
$49,000 and produces over $2 billion worth of goods and services
for an economic impact of more than 51,000 jobs and $5 billion.
Tampa Bay's history
of manufacturing for the defense industry has created a workforce
skilled in high-precision fabrication of electronic parts
and assemblies and experience in dealing with government relations,
easing the transition to the highly regulated medical manufacturing
industry.
A sampling of medical
manufacturing firms in Tampa Bay:
- Baxter Healthcare
Corp.
- Bausch &
Lomb
- B&M Precision
- Cardinal Health
Inc.
- Doyen Medipharm
- Essilor
- Florida Infusion
Services, Inc.
- Halkey-Roberts
Corp.
- Hoveround, Inc.
- Linvatec Corporation
- Maxxim Medical
Inc.
- NDH Medical,
Inc.
- SRI/Surgical
Express, Inc.
- Transitions
Opitcal, Inc.
- Twin Star Optics
- VLOC Inc.
Microelectronics
/ Nanotechnology
Researchers at
the University of South Florida's Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing
Research Center (NNRC), H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
and the Center for Ocean Technogy at USF's College
of Marine Science are researching how to use nanotechnology
for a myriad of targeted uses including drug delivery,
mechanized microsurgery, customized laser microchips, ways
to turn sunlight into electricity, purifying water, storing
hydrogen in small nanotubes, designing and developing marine
sensors using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and
curing cancer.
Leading high-tech
manufacturers that call Tampa Bay home include:
- Jabil Circuit
- Raytheon
- Tech Data
- Danka
- Lockheed Martin
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