Suframa and Abimo discuss manufacture of hospital equipment at PIM

Manaus Free Zone

PIM companies can manufacture medical, hospital, dental and optical equipment

Manaus (AM) – The possibility of manufacturing medical, hospital, dental and optical equipment in the Industrial Pole of Manaus (PIM) was the main theme of the meeting between Suframa and the Brazilian Association of the Medical Device Industry (Abimo). The meeting, via videoconference, took place on Wednesday (28) and brought together the management and technical team of the Autarchy and representatives of the association.

During the meeting, the superintendent of Suframa, Bosco Saraiva, highlighted the importance of the approximation between the institutions and reinforced the invitation for the entity’s associates to learn more about the functioning of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (ZFM).

“We explain the advantages of investing in the ZFM, the necessary steps such as the creation of a specific Basic Production Process (PPB) and how it would be relevant for the Brazilian economy to have an industrial segment of medical and hospital equipment here, as well as the development of a production chain

Saraiva stressed.

The Deputy Executive Superintendent of Suframa, Frederico Aguiar, also pointed out that the invitation to Abimo is part of an effort by the federal government, called Brazilian neo-industrialization, which will create and diversify industrial segments. Thus, Suframa identified the need to strengthen a center of medical devices produced in Brazil. “The Covid-19 pandemic also highlighted the strategic relevance of having medical equipment available”, stressed Aguiar.

Suframa pointed out that there is a list of approved PPBs for the manufacture of hospital equipment such as: accessories, masks, scalps, syringes, needles, gases and hospital oxygen, ultrasound, tomography and X-ray equipment.

“One recently came out that does all that screening that is done manually in a hospital via self-service: measuring blood pressure, heartbeats, in short, this device automatically measures all the screening parameters, before the medical appointment” ,

detailed Saraiva.

At the meeting with representatives of companies operating in the medical-hospital, dentistry, clinical laboratories and rehabilitation and assisted technology sectors, the potential of using resources from the Information Technology Law for technological research in the area of ​​medical devices was also addressed.

According to the Abimo, in 2021, almost R$ 18 billion were generated in the country in gross amounts from the production of electromedical, electrotherapeutic and irradiation equipment, added to instruments and materials for medical and dental use and optical articles. Still according to data from Abimo, the sector employed, in 2021, more than 72.6 thousand people. Abimo has 300 associates and holds 85% of the market share of medical device products in the country.

Also participating in the meeting, for Abimo: the CEO of the Association, Paulo Fraccaro, the Institutional director, Márcio Bósio, and the Relationship manager, Cecília Mansano. For Suframa: the general coordinator of Foreign Trade and International Affairs (Cogin), Arthur Lisboa; technician Adamilton Mourão and Operations Engineer Camila Jacqueline Carneiro.

*With advisory information

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