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Integer company history timeline

1940

1940 – Albert Manwaring founds Uniform Tubes, the precursor to Accellent, to manufacture communication cables.

1947

1947 – Joseph Fleischhacker Sr. founded Lake Region Manufacturing to produce fishing lures.

1958

1958 – Wilson Greatbatch designs the first practical implantable pacemaker.

1960

1960 – First successful implant of the Greatbatch pacemaker.

1960 – Lake Region partners with Medtronic on their pacemaker, developing the pacing lead coil.

1962

1962 – Wilson Greatbatch patents the implantable pacemaker.

1968

1968 – Uniform Tubes manufactures blood oxygenator tubes for William Harvey Research.

1969

1969 – Doctor Orestes Fiandra establishes CCC in Uruguay to manufacture medical devices.

1975

1975 – Greatbatch’s first metal-ceramic feedthrough implanted.

1978

1978 – Lake Region develops its first finished coronary guidewire.

1979

1979 – Greatbatch establishes Electrochem to meet a commerical need for lithium batteries.

1987

1987 – Implant of Greatbatch’s first lithium SVO ICD battery.

1991

1991 – Lake Region co-develops the first implantable port.

2000

2000 – Wilson Greatbatch Technologies (WGT) issues an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

2002

2002 – Greatbatch acquires Globe Tool and Manufacturing.

2005

2005 – Greatbatch opens two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Alden, NY, and Tijuana, MX.

2014

2014 – Accellent Inc. acquires Lake Region Medical.

2015

2015 – Greatbatch, Inc. acquires Lake Region Medical to create one of the world’s largest medical device outsource manufacturers.

2016

2016 – The combination of Greatbatch® Medical & Lake Region Medical® is renamed Integer®.

2018

2018 – Integer sells its Advanced Surgical & Orthopodic unit to enable growth in its Cardio & Vascular, Cardiac Rhythm, Neuromodulation and Power Solutions product lines.

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