AEDC press release
The Athens Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors and Athens Mayor Jerry Vaught announced today that Med-Logics, Inc. will be opening a new facility in Athens. Med-Logics, Inc., is a manufacturer of state-of-the-art medical devices used in Lasik, Dsaek, and Cataract surgeries.
Med-Logics intends to break ground on their facility in June. The Athens facility will become Med-Logics new corporate and manufacturing home for the company. Med-Logics will be moving from its location in Laguna Hills, Calif. and will employ 20 people initially and will make over $1 million investment in the new Athens facility. Med-Logics plans to be operational this November. They will build their facility on a four acre site in the Athens Industrial Park.
Med-Logics chose Athens over other communities because of the low tax burden in Texas, Athens’ existing ancillary medical device industry, workforce and location.
According to AEDC president Brian J. Malone, “Med-Logics is a great fit for Athens.”
“We were able to show Med-Logics that it made great business sense to be here in Athens,” Malone said.
The Med-Logics Story
- 1992 – Med-Logics, Inc. was founded on September 17, 1992 to focus on providing surgeons with the tools they need to optimize their patient outcomes.
- 1996 – Med-Logics became the first company to receive 510(k) clearance from the FDA for marketing a replacement microkeratome blade on December 9, 1996.
- 2003 – Med-Logics was granted U.S. Patent No. 6,663,644 on December 16, 2003 for features of the revolutionary Calibrated LASIK Blade (CLB®) design.
- 2007 – Med-Logics adds the CleanTouch PVA product line to complement its line of ophthalmic equipment and disposables.
- 2011 – Med-Logics, Inc. acquires Enlighten Technology, Inc., an early-stage company developing the CataPulse, a novel, less destructive device for lens removal.
- Med-Logics introduces the ML7 Donor Cornea System, bringing the quality and predictability of the ML7 Microkeratome to donor cornea procedures.
- 2012 – Med-Logics introduces the Nitro Donor Cornea System, the first system designed specifically for use on donor tissue.