After holding on to an adjacent parcel of land for more than a decade next to its facility in Bartlett, medical device manufacturer Engineered Medical Systems LLC is gearing up for a major expansion of its facility. The company is investing $10.5 million in a move that will create 40 new jobs.

2. Medical Device Maker Investing $10.5M in Bartlett Expansion - Friday, May 18, 2018

A Bartlett-based medical device manufacturer is expanding with a $10.5 million investment that will create 40 jobs.

Engineered Medical Systems LLC plans to add 57,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space to its existing 47,500-square-foot facility at 3325 Appling Road, where it makes surgical instruments, implants and other specialty medical devices.

3. Herwig Engineers With a Sense of Responsibility - Friday, July 14, 2017

“I always liked building things and working with my hands,” Josh Herwig muses, holding out a prototype of the medical device he’s designed and engineered.

Now chief technology officer of SOMAVAC Medical Solutions, Herwig continuously gravitated toward science. Talking with a visitor to the SOMAVAC offices (housed within the Memphis Bioworks Foundation building, in the Medical District), Herwig recalls the steps that brought him here. The son of a particle physicist – his father has worked at Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratories – Herwig grew up fascinated by the possibilities and magic of science.

4. FedEx Supply Chain Ramps Up New Medical Distribution Warehouse - Saturday, May 27, 2017

FedEx Supply Chain, formerly known as Genco, is ramping up activity at its 1.1 million-square-foot multitenant distribution warehouse on East Holmes Road. Memphis-based FedEx Corp. acquired Genco, a third-party logistics provider, for $1.4 billion in early 2015 and announced a network expansion last October.

5. Flagship Facility - Wednesday, October 16, 2013

NexAir, one of the largest distributors of atmospheric gases and welding supplies in the country, recently debuted a new advanced welding and cutting demonstration lab at its renovated Downtown headquarters on Walnut Street.

6. EMS Buys 3.4 AcresAdjacent to Appling Facility - Monday, November 12, 2007
     Bartlett-based Engineered Medical Systems LLC has bought 3.45 acres of vacant land adjacent to the north of the company's facility at 3325 Appling Road. Glen E. Bascom Sr. sold the property for $580,000.
  

7. Suburbs Promote New Industrial Development - Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Municipalities such as Arlington, Bartlett, Collierville and Millington - all of which pride themselves on rural charm, cozy town squares and a slower pace of life - are at the same time maintaining busy industrial centers that are growing and thriving.