TAKING NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGY FURTHER Nicolay is one of the global market leaders in the development and manufacture of medical device accessories for non-invasive patient monitoring and diagnostic. Philip Yorke talked to Christof Muz, owner and MD of the Nicolay Group, and Jens Hoche the company’s sales and marketing director about its latest investments in plant, new technology and its groundbreaking, innovative new products.
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icolay was founded in 1964 by the two Nicolay brothers who began by establishing a plastic injection moulding company in Waiblingen, Germany. With the ambition to diversify and grow in 1972 the company invested in a new, modern plant in Nagold, close to its original site. From the beginning the site in Nagold focused on the production of electro-medical accessories. A management buy-out two years later led to a separation of the two business operations, with the plastic injection moulding company in Waiblingen still owned by the Nicolay brothers and the medical accessories business then held by the families Muz and Schwarz.
Nicolay GmbH in Nagold has kept its focus to the medical device accessories market for the past 40 years and has expanded its operation in several steps to reach a total of nearly 10,000 square metres of production space in Nagold today. One remarkable milestone was the establishment of the raw cable manufacturer Sensocab Kabelproduktion GmbH in 1992, on the same site with the same ownership. The two companies form the core of the Nicolay Group and complement one another to the advantage of their customer base, as the differing technological expertise of each of these is combined in the medical cable accessories offered by Nicolay.
Dynamic growth followed and in 2008 another milestone was reached when the Nicolay Group established a new, state-of-theart manufacturing facility in Romania, which today supports the group with another 1500 square metres of production space. In 2009 the group consolidated its board of management with all shares in the Nicolay Group being transferred to the Muz family. Today Nicolay is a highly successful, vertically integrated manufacturer of medical cables, connectors and cable assemblies that can be customised to suit any individual requirement and specification. Currently the group employs over 400 people
