Zimmer to distribute Palacos bone cement:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Zimmer has acquired the distribution rights for the Palacos line of bone cement manufactured by Heraeus Kulzer. It will become the exclusive US distributor in January 2006. Zimmer expects to begin selling Palacos and other Kulzer bone cements in the second quarter of 2005. The contract between Germany-based Heraeus Kulzer and Biomet, the present US distributor of the Palacos products, expires at the end of 2005.