The distinguished award recognizes AVX’s exceptional contributions to the advancement of South Carolina’s $11.4 billion life sciences industry, including its extensive & ever-expanding portfolio of innovative electronic component & interconnect solutions for high-reliability medical applications
FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (November 26, 2019) – AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer and supplier of advanced electronic components and interconnect, sensor, control, and antenna solutions, was honored with the South Carolina Life Sciences Pinnacle Award for Organizational Contribution at the 2019 SCBIO Annual Conference, which was held October 29–31 in Greenville, South Carolina. Bestowed by SCBIO Life Sciences Industry, an investor-driven economic development organization exclusively focused on building, advancing, and growing the life sciences industry in South Carolina, the distinguished award recognizes AVX’s significant contributions to the advancement of the state’s $11.4 billion life sciences industry, including its vast and ever-expanding portfolio of innovative electronic components and interconnect solutions for high-reliability medical applications.
“The life sciences industry is a significant driver of South Carolina’s growing knowledge economy,” said SCBIO President and CEO Sam Konduros, “so we’re very pleased to honor AVX as a SCBIO Mission Partner and 2019 award recipient for their exceptional contributions to the advancement of life sciences. AVX has demonstrated a sustained commitment to developing innovative, high-reliability, and high-performance components that have earned the trust of a majority of implantable life support device manufacturers worldwide.”
With more than 20 years of proven high-reliability performance in the medical industry, AVX is widely recognized as a leading global supplier of medical-grade components, including advanced tantalum and ceramic capacitors, thin film passives, filters, connectors, and multi-pin arrays — all of which are manufactured in ISO 9001 facilities using strict manufacturing control, statistical screening, and testing procedures compliant with rigorous FDA quality and safety regulations. The company’s extensive range of high-reliability medical solutions enables a wide range of both critical and non-critical medical applications, ranging from Class III implantable and life-sustaining devices including pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs), neurostimulators, neuromodulation devices, and external heart pump controls to Class I and II devices including cochlear implants, insulin pumps, drug pumps, hearing aids, heart monitors, vascular-assist devices, MRI and X-ray machines, external defibrillators, and other patient monitoring and diagnostic devices.
“We are honored to have been presented with the South Carolina Life Sciences Pinnacle Award for Organizational Contribution by such a valued mission partner as SCBIO,” said Robert Fairey, vice president of the AVX Medical Division. “AVX is dedicated to delivering top-quality, cutting-edge component technologies that meet or exceed the stringent specifications and requirements set forth by the medical industry and is actively engaged in the continued expansion of these highly specialized passive component and interconnect product portfolios.”
Fairey represented AVX at this year’s SCBIO conference, which provided a record gathering of 450 life sciences industry experts, thought leaders, and executives from 11 countries, 32 states, and nearly every county in South Carolina with valuable information exchange and networking opportunities.
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About SCBIO
SCBIO is a statewide, not-for-profit, public/private life sciences industry association and economic development organization formed to actively promote, build, support, expand, and convene South Carolina’s life sciences industry. As the official state affiliate of BIO, PhRMA and AdvaMed, SCBIO members include hundreds of academic institutions, biotech companies, medtech companies, entrepreneurial organizations, service providers, thought leaders, economic development organizations and related groups whose members are leading the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental products that transform how people heal, fuel and feed the world. For more information about SCBIO, visit www.SCBIO.org.
