Sheffield Precision Medical

What Sheffield Precision Medical does

Sheffield Precision Medical Ltd is an independent UK orthopaedic contract manufacturer headquartered in Sheffield, established in its current form via a management buyout on 11 February 2010 with 13 employees. The firm operates from a purpose-built facility on Petre Street, Sheffield, comprising adjacent 5,000 sq. ft. manufacturing units for finishing, stockholding, design, QA, and inspection. Its core business is contract manufacturing of precision orthopaedic surgical instrumentation and implants — clamps, guides, resection guides, reamers, drills, femoral rasps/broaches, femoral trials, humeral reamers, calcar cutters, cannulated drills, and plastic trial components — for OEMs serving large joint, trauma, extremities, and sports medicine procedures.

Manufacturing capability is centered on multi-axis CNC machining and finishing: six 5-axis HAAS mills, STAR sliding heads with gun drilling for sub-1.2mm cannulated bores, ANCA grinders, three Sodick ALC400-series wire EDMs plus a Sodick hole driller, laser marking/welding, passivation to ASTM A967, and complex assembly. The firm holds ISO 13485:2016, FDA registration (via Emergo), and Japanese Ordinance 169 foreign manufacturer accreditation, and runs full PPAP documentation with lights-out manufacturing for longer production runs.

Sheffield Precision Medical makes money through transaction-fee contract manufacturing services — prototyping, new product introduction, and volume production — sold direct to enterprise OEM customers including Stryker, Zimmer-Biomet, and DePuy (Johnson & Johnson), plus Japanese multinational and domestic orthopaedic manufacturers. Pricing is quote-based and never publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales supported by 15 consecutive years exhibiting at OMTEC (Chicago), direct customer engagement in Japan, and targeted trade delegations. Revenue has historically been export-weighted: 58% foreign-sales growth and 85% new-market development were recorded in 2017, with turnover doubling in the three years following the 2010 MBO. No external institutional or venture funding is evident; the company is founder/management-owned.

Name

Sheffield Precision Medical

Legal name

Sheffield Precision Medical Ltd

Website

https://sheffieldpm.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sheffield Precision Medical is an independent UK orthopaedic contract manufacturer that produces precision surgical instruments and implants — including reamers, drills, guides, clamps, and trials — via CNC machining, EDM, and finishing for global OEM customers such as Stryker, Zimmer-Biomet, and DePuy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Orthopaedic Contract Manufacturing

NAICS

Surgical and Medical Instrument Manufacturing (339112)

SIC

Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus (3841)

akta.pro primary industry

Surgical Navigation, Robotics & Patient-Matched Instrumentation (Ortho/Spine) (HLAHAEAL)

Keywords

• Orthopaedic contract manufacturing
• Surgical instrument machining
• Medical device manufacturing
• CNC precision machining
• Orthopaedic implants manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Sheffield

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Operations

Revenue model

1. Contract Manufacturing Services: Orthopaedic contract manufacturing providing complete solution from prototyping to new product introduction (NPI) to volume manufacturing. Revenue generated through manufacturing services for OEM implant manufacturers.
2. Precision CNC Machining: CNC turning, milling, grinding, EDM services for surgical instruments and implants. One-time and recurring production orders based on customer demand.
3. Quality and Validation Services: PPAP documentation, validation services, inspection and testing services bundled with manufacturing.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Sheffield Precision Medical is an independent UK orthopaedic contract manufacturer that produces high-precision surgical instruments and implants for OEM implant manufacturers. The company offers a complete manufacturing solution spanning prototyping, new product introduction (NPI), and volume production, supported by in-house CNC turning, 5-axis milling, grinding, EDM, laser marking/welding, passivation, and CAD/CAM design capabilities.

Product overview

Sheffield Precision Medical is a contract manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of orthopaedic surgical instrumentation and implants for large joints, trauma, extremities, and sports medicine. Their core offering includes Clamps, Guides, Resection Guides, Extremities Reamers, Drills, Femoral Rasps and Broaches, Femoral Trials, Humeral Reamers, Plastics, Calcar Cutters, and Cannulated Drills. The company provides a complete manufacturing solution from prototyping through new product introduction to volume production, supported by engineering capabilities including CNC turning, CNC milling, CNC grinding, EDM wiring, laser marking, laser welding, polishing, ultrasonic cleaning, passivation, and complex assembly services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Orthopaedic Surgical Clamps Orthopaedic surgical clamps used in various procedures across large joints, trauma, extremities, and sports medicine, manufactured to OEM specifications.
• Orthopaedic Guides Surgical guides for precision alignment and positioning during orthopaedic procedures, manufactured to customer specifications.
• Resection Guides Precision resection guides for accurate bone cutting and shaping during joint replacement surgeries.
• Extremities Reamers Reamers designed for preparing bone cavities in extremities procedures including hands, feet, and small joints.
• Orthopaedic Drills Orthopaedic surgical drills for creating pilot holes and bore preparation in various orthopaedic procedures.
• Femoral Rasps and Broaches Femoral rasps and broaches for preparing the femoral canal during hip replacement procedures.
• Femoral Trials Trial femoral components for fit assessment during knee replacement surgery before final implant selection.
• Humeral Reamers Reamers for preparing the humeral canal during shoulder and elbow replacement procedures.
• Plastic Surgical Components Plastic surgical components and trial implants for various orthopaedic applications.
• Calcar Cutters Specialised cutters for calcar planning in hip replacement procedures.
• Cannulated Drills Cannulated drills for creating holes over guide wires in minimally invasive and percutaneous orthopaedic procedures.
• Orthopaedic Contract Manufacturing Service Full-service orthopaedic contract manufacturing for OEM implant manufacturers, covering prototyping, new product introduction (NPI), and volume production of surgical instruments and implants in stainless steel, titanium, cobalt chrome, and plastics.

Quantifiable outcome

• 58% increase in foreign sales in 2017
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the AMRC (home of McLaren, Rolls Royce, and Boeing) for apprenticeship training. AMRC provides rigorous and high-quality apprenticeships in inspection, milling, turning, grinding, and EDM wire.
• Mercy ShipsminorOthersCharitable partnership where Sheffield Precision gives from net profits annually to Mercy Ships, an organization providing life-changing medical care to the most vulnerable worldwide. In 2011, a contingent visited Sierra Leone to see the work on the Africa Mercy hospital ship.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Orchid Orthopedic Solutions: Global orthopaedic contract manufacturer offering design, forging, machining, finishing and packaging for implants and instruments. Highly comparable to SPM by vertical scope and customer overlap with the same tier-1 OEMs; recently acquired by Honeywell.
• Hammill Medical: Orthopaedic contract manufacturer of surgical instruments and implants serving tier-1 OEMs. Comparable size, vertical focus and end-market to Sheffield Precision Medical.
• Avalign Technologies: Specialist medical-device contract manufacturer serving orthopaedic, spinal and dental OEMs with precision machining, finishing and assembly. Direct competitor to SPM for outsourced orthopaedic instrumentation programmes.
• Tecomet: Orthopaedic and medical-device contract manufacturer specialising in precision implants and instruments for spine, trauma and large joints. The closest direct comparable to Sheffield Precision Medical by customer base, capability set (CNC, finishing) and regulatory positioning; now owned by J&J/DePuy Synthes following acquisition from Carlyle.
• Paragon Medical: US-based precision medical-device contract manufacturer focused on surgical implants and instruments across orthopaedics, trauma and spine. Comparable in scale, customer base and service offering to Sheffield Precision Medical; now owned by AMETEK.
• Norman Noble: Ultra-precision contract manufacturer for medical devices, including orthopaedic implants and instruments, with deep 5-axis milling and EDM capability similar to SPM's. Strong direct comparable on technical capability and customer profile.
• Orchid Medical: Orthopaedic contract manufacturer focused on implants, instruments and sterilisation-pack services for OEMs. Direct competitive comparable on outsourced orthopaedic instrumentation work.

Regional players

• JRI Orthopaedics: Sheffield-based orthopaedic implant and instrument manufacturer (and sister-company to the Sheffield medtech cluster in which SPM operates). Comparable end-market and heritage, though JRI is a branded product company rather than a pure contract manufacturer; useful benchmark for UK orthopaedic economics.

Broad incumbents

• Integer Holdings (formerly Greatbatch / Vention Medical): Large diversified medical-device contract manufacturer with significant orthopaedic and surgical-instrument exposure. Broader portfolio than SPM but overlaps heavily in precision machined implants and instruments for the same tier-1 customers.

Emerging players

• Advalent (formerly BMetrix / Biomerics ortho division): Mid-market medical-device contract manufacturer with growing orthopaedic and surgical-instrument capabilities. Less established than Tecomet/Orchid but increasingly competing for outsourced tier-1 programmes similar to SPM's.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/sheffpm_info
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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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