LivaNova Awards ECA with 2017 Supplier of the Year

ECA Medical Instruments, a global designer and manufacturer of single-procedure torque-limiting instruments and procedural kits for the medical industry, was named LivaNova 2017 Supplier of the Year Award winner. ECA was one of just 3 strategic partner firms out of 300 LivaNova suppliers worldwide to win the prestigious award. 
 
“We have the pleasure to recognize ECA Medical Instruments as the LivaNova 2017 Supplier of the Year,” said Pascal Chaussepied, purchasing director, CRM and Neuro. “This award honors ECA’s overall performance in areas including quality, logistics, cost and customer service and support. Supplier performance is fundamental to LivaNova’s success to remain competitive within the challenging CRM market and global environment. We congratulate the ECA team and its management for the continuous outstanding level of performance,” he said. 
 
ECA designs and manufactures a variety of precision single-use torque-limiting instruments used by surgeons to secure delicate electrodes and leads that connect LivaNova pacemakers and defibrillators to the heart. ECA’s instruments also secure electrodes to LivaNova’s Vagus Nerve neuromodulation devices used to treat people affected by treatment-resistant epilepsy, depression, heart failure and other disorders. ECA’s instruments are single-use meaning a pristine instrument is used for each mission critical implant and for each patient. 
 
“This is a tremendous honor for ECA and our global team of medical device employees, who are dedicated to providing LivaNova with pristine single-procedure instrumentation. ECA has been successfully supporting LivaNova across multiple life sustaining product lines for many years,” said Lane Hale, president and CEO of ECA Medical Instruments. 
 
“Winning the LivaNova 2017 Supplier of the Year Award underscores our commitment to providing single-procedure instrumentation that offers clinical and economic value. We are always striving with our customers and partners to jointly improve the quality of people’s lives—one instrument, one patient at a time,” he said. 
 
Single-procedure torque-limiting instruments and procedural kits provide surgeons and patients alike with a pristine set of surgery ready instruments for addressing a wide range of procedures. Sustained benefits include elimination of reprocessing costs, improved OR efficiency, reduced risk of surgical site infection, and reduction in hospital and outpatient surgery center inventory management. 
 
ECA is a one-stop shop OEM instrument company providing medical device implant firms with complete product design and development, product and packaging validations, CE mark, and dock to stock operations. This reduces OEM costs and accelerates time to market.