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| Brazil BD opened its first manufacturing facility in South America in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. The Company opened a second plant in Curitiba in 1983. BD, which also has offices in São Paulo, is now the largest medical supply company in Brazil. | |
| Bard-Parker BD merged with the Bard-Parker Company, known for its history of innovation in the manufacture of surgical blades and knives. Morgan Parker served as Chairman of the BD Board from 1956 to 1964. BD divested the surgical blades business in 2010. | |
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| Single-use IV Catheter BD introduced the BD Intracath™ IV Catheter, the first sterile, disposable, through-the-needle IV catheter designed for single use on the market. | |
| Puerto Rico BD opened a manufacturing facility in Juncos, Puerto Rico. A plant in Las Piedras was acquired in 1972. Additional facilities came onstream in Cayey in 1982 and in San Lorenzo in 1984. In 2007, BD opened a new facility for BD Biosciences in Cayey. | |
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| Disposable Labware The first major milestone in the history of what is now Discovery Labware, a unit of BD Biosciences, was the acquisition of the Falcon Plastics Company, a pioneer in the manufacture of disposable plastic labware. | |
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| Broken Bow, Nebraska A new BD facility, the second in Nebraska, opened with 55 employees in a 13,753-sq. ft. building producing 10 types of glass and plastic blood collection tubes, along with other specialty products. After 11 expansions, BD in Broken Bow now employs approximay 400 associates, making it the largest employer in Custer County. The facility produces BD Vacutainer® tubes and urine collection products. | |
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| | The ‘Disposables Revolution’ After almost ten years of development and testing, BD introduced its first disposable BD Plastipak™ Syringe. In 1962, BD opened a new manufacturing facility in Canaan, Connecticut, dedicated to production of this new syringe. | |
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| A Public Company — Windows Media video To raise the capital required for the introduction of sterile disposable products, BD became a publicly held corporation, offering its stock at $25 per share. Sales were $54 million and net income $3 million. | |
| Ireland BD opened its first manufacturing facility in Europe in Drogheda, Ireland. A second BD plant was opened in 1969 in Dun Laoghaire. A finance and accounting office was opened in Shannon in 1992. | |
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| | BDX BD was listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the symbol: BDX. | |
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| New Technologies for Disease Diagnosis BD acquired Clay-Adams., which was to contribute innovative diagnostic products such as the Accu-Stat™ Blood Chemistry Analyzer, precursor of the QBC™ Hematology System. The acquisition also brought two new members to the BD Board of Directors-- Marvin Asnes, who served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1980 to 1983, and Harry Roth. | |
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| Radioimmunodiagnostics With the acquisition of Schwarz BioResearch, BD entered the field of radioimmunodiagnostics. BD held a preeminent position in the radioimmunoassay field until the late ‘80s, when the Company began moving forward with fluorescence-activated and other types of nonradioactive assays. | |
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| Holdrege, Nebraska BD opened a manufacturing facility in Holdrege Nebraska. It is now the world’s largest manufacturer of insulin syringes for diabetes. | |
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| Europe BD - Europe was established, with headquarters in Grenoble, France. Guided by an ambitious 10-year plan, BD established offices in the Benelux countries (1970); Italy (1971); Germany and Switzerland (1972); Holland and Sweden (1973); followed by manufacturing plants in Germany, Spain (1979 and 1986), the U.K. (1982), Italy and Hungary (2010). In 1982, BD moved its European headquarters to Meylan, France. | |
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| FORTUNE 500 For the first time, FORTUNE magazine listed BD as one of the 500 largest American companies. | |
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| First Automated Blood Culture System The BD BACTEC™ model 225, (produced by Johnston Labs, which was acquired by BD in 1979) was made commercially available. | |
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| Innovative Diagnostic Tools BD acquired Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, a century-old firm that focused on innovative research products and diagnostic tools. | |
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| First Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter Through licensing arrangements with Stanford University, BD manufactured the first fluorescence-activated cell-sorting system, pioneering the Company's involvement in flow cytometry for cellular analysis. Today, BD is a leader in this field. | |
| Research Center BD established the BD Research Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina to help the Company meet FDA requirements, research improved manufacturing and process methods and serve as a window to future innovative technologies. | |
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| Wesley J. “Jack” Howe was named Chief Executive Officer. In 1980, he became Chairman of the Board, President and CEO. He retired in 1988. | |
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| BD Hypak™ Prefilled Syringes A new patent was issued to Claude Imbert, Pharmaceutical Systems - Europe, for a prefilled syringe for injecting heparin, a blood thinner. Today, this product is the worldwide standard for glass prefillable drug delivery systems, combining high-quality design with accurate dosing and easy customization options. | |
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| Mountain View, California BD opened a new facility in Mountain View for the manufacture of its innovative fluorescence-activated cell sorter. This location is now the headquarters of the BD Biosciences business segment. | |