Edwards Lifesciences Corp. engages in patient-focused medical innovations for heart disease and critical care monitoring. Its products are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart, and Critical Care. It operates through the following geographical segments: United States, Europe, Japan, and Rest of World. The company was founded by Miles Lowell Edwards in 1958 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG is a private company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with subsidiaries in the United States and Sweden, that supplies orthopedic products. The firm was founded in 1948. Helmut D. Link, Norbert Ostwald and Peter Heinz Willenborg are the current co-CEOs of the company.

Medtronic, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. It offers implantable cardiac pacemakers, eternal defibrillators, inferior turbinate surgery products, and continuous glucose monitoring device. The company was founded by Earl E. Bakken and Palmer J. Hermundslie on April 29, 1949 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Zimmer, Inc. provides joint replacement solutions. The firm products include trauma and dental implants and orthopaedic surgical products. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

DePuy Products, Inc., part of Johnson & Johnson, is a company headquartered in the United States. The firm manufactures and distributes orthopaedic devices.

Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used principally to treat cardiovascular disease.

DePuy Ireland Unlimited Co., part of Johnson & Johnson, is a company headquartered in County Cork, Ireland. The firm develops and markets diagnostic and therapeutic products.

Smith & Nephew PLC designs, manufactures and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and ENT technologies, and wound-care solutions. Slightly more than 40% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is a sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 27% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.

Medtronic Vascular designs and develops technologies for coronary, peripheral, and neurovascular indications. The company’s products include S7 Zipper MX Coronary Stent System, Clo-Sur PAD Nonwoven Hydrophilic Wound Dressing, Launcher Coronary Guide Catheter, and Stormer Over-the-Wire Balloon Dilatation Catheter. The company also offers Bridge Assurant Balloon-Expandable Stent Delivery System, GuardWire Plus Temporary Occlusion and Aspiration System, and S660 Coronary Stent. Medtronic Vascular was incorporated in 1991 and is based in Santa Rosa, California. As of January 29, 1999, Medtronic Vascular operates as a subsidiary of Medtronic.

W. L. Gore & Associates has made its name by creating innovative, technology-driven solutions, from medical devices that treat aneurysms to high-performance GORE‑TEX® fabrics. A privately held company with annual sales of more than $3 billion, Gore is committed to perpetuating its 50-plus year tradition of product innovation. Gore focuses its efforts in four main areas: electronics, fabrics, industrial and medical products. The company’s electronic products division develops and manufactures high-performance copper and optical signal transmission products. Gore’s fabrics provide protection from the elements and enable wearers to remain comfortable across a broad range of activities and conditions. The products made by Gore’s industrial division meet diverse contamination control and processing challenges throughout industry. Implants from the medical division provide creative healing solutions to complex medical problems. Today, Gore employs more than 10,000 employees, called associates, with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and China, and sales offices around the world.

Biomet Manufacturing LLC manufactures and markets surgical and non-surgical products. The firm operates in one reportable business segment musculoskeletal products, which includes the design, manufacture and marketing of products in five product categories large joint reconstructive, sports, extremities, trauma spine and bone Healing, and dental products. The company is headquartered in Warsaw, IN.

Boston Scientific Ltd., part of Boston Scientific Corp., is a British company located in Hemel Hempstead. The firm distributes medical products. It was founded in 1992.\nThe company says this about itself: Boston Scientific Ltd designed, manufactured and sold transvaginal mesh (“TVM”) medical devices that were implanted into thousands of Canadian women for the treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence (“SUI”) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (“POP”).

Part of Nader Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Otto Bock Healthcare is a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. The firm manufactures and sells orthopedic devices.

DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. develops and markets medical products. It offers distal volar Radius, which is designed to treat distal radius fractures, dorsal endoplate, an invasive dorsal nail plate that provides fixed angle support and intramedullary locked fixation with a duplicate and reproducible surgical procedure, spatial subchondral support plate, which is used to treat proximal humeral fractures and Small Bone Fixation System, a percutaneous locked intramedullary nail system for metacarpals and the phalanges. The company was founded on June 22, 2004 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Beijing AK Medical Co., Ltd. offers orthopedic products and services. The firm provides surgical instruments and orthopedic products. Beijing AK Medical was founded in May 2003 and is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Tornier SAS engages in the orthopedic industry. The company was founded on April 27, 1970 and is headquartered in Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France.

Sofradim Production SAS manufactures medical, surgical and dental equipment. The company is headquartered in Trevoux, France.

Howmedica Osteonics Corp., a subsidiary of Stryker Corp., is a company headquartered in Mahwah, NJ. The firm manufactures and supplies orthopaedic devices.