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Acumed company history timeline

1988

Randall and Mary Huebner started Accurate Machine and Design in 1988 in New Jersey.

1990

Then in 1990 the couple moved the company west to the state of Oregon.

1996

After being renamed as Acumed, the company was later one of four nominees from Oregon for the National Blue Chip Enterprises' 1996 award for small business who had faced and overcome challenges.

1999

In 1999, Acumed was sold to the Marmon Group.

2001

By April 2001, the company was based in Beaverton, Oregon, and employed 90 people at a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m) facility after adding 30 people to the payroll in a years time.

2004

As of October 2004, Acumed employed 130 people at its facilities in Oregon, which totaled 55,000 square feet (5,100 m) in space.

2005

A jury found that Stryker Corporation willfully infringed on Acumed's patent on a shoulder fracture treatment in a September 2005 verdict.

2006

Due to sales growth, largely on the international side, the company hired an additional 45 people in 2006, bringing total employment at the company to 195.

Acumed partnered with Oregon Health Sciences University to fund start-up Acute Innovations in 2006 to refine thoracic surgical procedures.

2007

Acumed's plant suffered a small fire in May 2007 when a titanium lathe caught fire, which only damaged the $350,000 machine.

After a mostly unsuccessful appeal by Stryker to the Federal Circuit, judge Anna J. Brown of the federal district court in Portland issued a permanent injunction in December 2007 that prevented Stryker from selling its humeral nail.

In 2007, machinists at the company built a custom motorcycle that the company approved of as a marketing tool.

2008

Alan Kozlowski stepped down as company president in 2008 and was replaced by David Jensen.

2009

In November 2009, the company purchased a 52,807-square-foot (4,905.9 m) building and 9 acres (3.6 ha) of land located along Brookwood Parkway in Hillsboro for $4.9 million.

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1988
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