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325009 Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies n.e.c.


This type includes:

  • manufacture of surgical drapes and sterile yarns/tissue
  • manufacture of dental fillings and cements (except denture adhesive or cement), dental wax and other dental plaster preparations
  • manufacture of bone reconstruction cements
  • manufacture of dental laboratory furnaces
  • manufacture of laboratory ultrasonic cleaning machinery
  • manufacture of laboratory sterilisers
  • manufacture of laboratory type distilling apparatus, laboratory centrifuges
  • manufacture of medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture, e.g.:
  • operating tables
  • examination tables
  • hospital beds with mechanical fittings
  • dentist chairs
  • manufacture of articles specially designed for use exclusively in implants in medical, surgical, or veterinary sciences (e.g. plates, which remain permanently in the body (e.g. to replace part or the whole of a bone))
  • manufacture of bone plates and screws, syringes, needles, catheters, cannulae, etc.
  • manufacture of dental instruments (including dentist's chairs incorporating dental equipment)
  • manufacture of medical thermometers
  • manufacture of individual protective masks (e.g. FFP2, FFP3, surgical masks)

This type excludes:

  • manufacture of wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances), see 212000
  • manufacture of electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus, see 266000