GW Plastics to enter Costa Rica for production in medical instruments industry

GW Plastics of the United States is expanding its foreign medical capabilities with the addition of its first manufacturing operations in Costa Rica.

GW said its new joint venture, a medical molding and assembly operation in Cartago, will start operating this summer, and construction has begun in the city on a new 33,000-square-foot plant scheduled to open  early next year. The new plant will be the company's third outside of the United States The other two are in Mexico and China.

Original source: Plastics News