05/10/2022
Ad Spijkers
Dutch robot integrator R-Solution Medical attracts Ramphastos Investments as a major shareholder.
Ramphastos Investments has become a major shareholder in R-Solution Medical. The latter is a pioneer in automated packaging of reusable medical instruments for hospitals and healthcare facilities. Founded in 2017, the company expects to accelerate its national and international growth ambitions with Ramphastos Investments' investment.
Sterile packaging
Checking, packing and sending reusable medical instruments to the right department is traditionally done manually at Central Sterilisation Departments of hospitals. Working in the medical sector, Mariska van der Vliet and Niels Welling saw great opportunities to improve this process.
Repackaging cleaned medical instruments is monotonous and heavy work that needs to be done very accurately and according to strict protocols. Hospitals increasingly struggle to find and retain suitably qualified staff for this purpose. R-Solution Medical's ambition was to come up with an automated total solution that could pack medical instrument sets and that would improve the logistics process. This led to the development of the R-Appit medical packing robot.
The Dutch company has now installed two packing robots with patented technologies and processes in hospitals. Talks are taking place with several medical institutions and renowned international distributors. Ramphastos Investments sees R-Solution Medical responding with the packing robot to developments in the medical sector, such as the shortage of personnel, the demand for sustainability and the ever-increasing quality requirements in packaged medical instruments. The R-Appit medical packing robot works faster, more accurately, cleaner and more consistently than the current method involving manual packing.
Major opportunities
The investment company therefore sees great opportunities for the company. The packing robot is compact enough to be placed in existing and new sterilisation departments. Moreover, it quickly saves 25% of packaging material. This results in a significant contribution to the sustainability and efficiency drive within hospitals, without compromising the quality of the final product.
Ramphastos Investments expects the R-Appit medical packaging robot to have the potential to become a permanent part of every modern medical institution, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Both parties give no details about the amount of the investment.
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