Opitek International

ACQUISITION BY AddLife AB

Peter Christensen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:16:21 +0000

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Acquisition of one of the Opitek group companies

Peter Christensen — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:52:28 +0000

04/11/2024

Acquisition of Opitek

Asker Healthcare Group’s subsidiary OneMed Denmark has acquired Opitek ApS, a provider of equipment and surgical instruments to hospitals in Denmark.

“We continue to strengthen our position in Denmark within surgery with Opitek’s portfolio of high-quality products and surgical instruments. Together with the Sterilean instrument portfolio we acquired a couple of years ago, we can now offer a more comprehensive and more efficient solution for Danish healthcare providers,” says Johan Falk, CEO Asker Healthcare Group.

Opitek sells patient positioning devices, OR-room equipment, and surgical instruments including educational programs, service and repairs. The company has a revenue of approximately SEK 10m per year and will be integrated into OneMed Denmark.

For further information, please contact:

Emma Rheborg, Head of Communication Asker Healthcare Group
Phone: +46 73 313 62 17
E-mail: emma.rheborg@asker.com

Asker Healthcare Group is a partner to caregivers and patients across Europe providing medical products and solutions. We build and acquire leading companies that together support the healthcare system to improve patient outcomes, reduce total cost of care and ensure a fair and sustainable value chain. We are a European healthcare group that combines the entrepreneurial drive of strong local companies, with the abilities and collected knowledge of a large group – driving progress in the healthcare sector. The group has 4 000 employees in 17 countries and revenues amounting to SEK 15 billion.

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Transition of production reduces 61.2% CO2 emission

Peter Christensen — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:44:28 +0000

Indlægget Transition of production reduces 61.2% CO2 emission blev først udgivet på Opitek International.

25 years of opitek

Peter Christensen — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:36:10 +0000

25 YEARS OF OPITEK

On October 1, 2023, Opitek celebrates its 25th anniversary.

I’m very proud and happy that we’re celebrating our 25th anniversary. It means a lot to us working in the company, that we’ve been able to build our business on top of our customers’ loyalty. Without our customers there would be no anniversary.

So, first of all a huge thanks to all our customers.

I’d also like to thank our loyal suppliers. A large number of them have been with us for all 25 years.

On a personal note, I’d like to express my gratitude to our dedicated employees, my family, all my valued colleagues in the medico business and all other professionals I’ve been working with during the years. Without your support and cooperation there would be no celebration.

I’m looking forward to continuing the journey with Opitek and to create future growth with the company and you.

My best wishes

Peter Christensen

CEO, founder

Bonus info (nice to know or need to know):

The name OPITEK was made up in a couple of hours on September 30, 1998, when founding the company. It is made up of 3 word elements in Danish:

OP = OPerationsstue udstyr/OPeratingroom equipment

I = Instruments/Innovation

TEK = Medical TEKnologi/technology

I learned later that the world’s first patient surviving open heart surgery was in fact called Henry Opitek – a thought-provoking connection to surgery too.

Also, Opitek is a Polish family name, which however has never led to any misunderstandings.

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EORNA 2022

Peter Christensen — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:54:47 +0000

EORNA 2022 – Winds of change 🏥

Our profession is constantly changing to enhance perioperative care, with more advanced technology for quality and safety of patient care in operating theatres.

“Winds of change” was the theme of the 10th biennial congress of the European Operating Room Nurses Association which was held in the beautiful city of Stavanger in Norway.

Our colleagues Tine Friis and Peter Christensen attended the conference and saw some interesting new trends of change.

Especially we want to highlight the new paradigm in getting disposable patient positioning equipment to go hand in hand with patient safety.

An example of this is the lateral positioning system Hip Fix, where single use pads are used for each surgical procedure to reduce cross contamination in hip replacement/revision procedures.

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Opitek International has acquired PediStirrup© from IMDS

o2019-admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:50:00 +0000

PediStirrup© has been on the market since 2009, originally manufactured by IMDS (Interventional Medical Device Solutions) (NL) and developed in cooperation with University Medical Center Groningen (NL).

PediStirrup© is the solution for pediatric laparoscopy and other pediatric procedures requiring lithotomy positioning, especially where intraoperative repositioning may be required.

PediStirrup© represents the exclusive device designed for safe and flexible lithotomy positioning of babies (starting with newborn) and children with body lengths up to 1.40 meters.

The product has developed into a must-have tool for pediatric physicians in their operating theaters worldwide to perform surgeries successfully. The PediStirrup© has been designed together with these users, has patented features, has been rigorously tested in practice and holds a solid global network for both sales and service that Opitek International (DK) has been a part of from the beginning.

In 2017 Opitek International acquired the exclusive worldwide sales rights from IMDS and in line with this successful development, IMDS and Opitek International are now pleased to announce that Opitek International has taken full ownership of the PediStirrup©as of May 29, 2020.

Opitek International is therefore now also responsible for the manufacturing, assembling, distribution and service of this system, including MDR (class 1) compliance responsibility.

With this new ownership, the PediStirrup©system will receive maximum focus offering long-lasting benefits to the users and their small and vulnerable (pediatric) patients.

AORN 2019, Nashville

Peter Christensen — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:15:44 +0000

Opitek International and D. A. Surgical are well underway at the AORN congress in Nashville.

A lot of interest for our products at the booth.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6521138840667717632

The nice booth layout from D. A. Surgical that we were lucky to be a part of during AORN 2019

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NORNA 2018

Peter Christensen — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 10:16:03 +0000

Getting ready for take off to NORNA 2018 in Stockholm. Will you be there ? Welcome in our booth 50+51

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ISO 13485:2016 certification

Peter Christensen — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 14:02:02 +0000

It is time to celebrate: Our ISO 13485:2016 certificate arrived today. 15 months of hard work can now be beneficially turned into customer advantages. We are looking forward to be working with the Medical Device Community under the “new” certified conditions.

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Medica 2018

Peter Christensen — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:06:15 +0000

We are exhibiting again this year, and would like to warmly welcome all customers, friends and business associates to our booth.
You can find us in Hall 13 at booth B37 – For a free of charge entrance voucher, please get in touch
See you there…

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