Jostra AG
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Integration of cardiac surgery device supplier LifeStream International's "main" fields of business into Jostra AG's Jostra-Bentley unit following acquisition March 4 will allow LifeStream operations to continue out of Houston, the firm says. LifeStream's line of tubing sets for open-heart surgery, oxygenators, blood pumps, reservoirs and arterial filters will be combined with Hirrlingen, Germany-based Jostra offerings such as heart-lung machines, oxygenators, catheters and cannulae. The purchase furthers Jostra's strategy to establish a presence in the U.S. following its July 2000 acquisition of Bentley profusion products from Edwards Lifesciences. Privately held LifeStream has 300 employees and was formed in 1999 through the combination of C.R. Bard's cardiopulmonary division, oxygenator and cardioplegia systems sold by Minntech and Surgimedics (1"The Gray Sheet" July 19, 1999, p. 4)...