Our History
2023
July
ZIEN Medical and Benten Creative, https://www.benten-creative.com/, enter into a partnering relationship. Benten Creative provides expertise in Regulatory, Quality, and Clinical Evaluations. ZIEN CEO Tim Nieman stated that ‘With Benten and ZIEN working side by side we are uniquely positioned to help our customers enter the global market, including being able to achieve CE mark under the new EU MDR. This partnership provides a pathway to market that in many ways wasn’t previously available to new innovative technologies.
2021
September
ZIEN Medical Technologies and Eclipse Design Innovation enter into a merge agreement. The two entities will operate under the ZIEN name and expands the technology offering to include electromechanical, software, and firmware engineering to the existing product design, development, quality systems, and manufacturing capabilities already present.
ZIEN adds new corporate office and manufacturing space at 2490 South 300 West, Salt Lake City, UT. This 16000ft facility is added to our existing 8000ft facility at 2757 South and adds an additional 2000ft worth of controlled environment to our 1500ft of existing manufacturing spaces.
2020
January
ZIEN and QRS Solutions, https://qrssolutionsllc.com/, enter into a partnering relationship. QRS provides regulatory and quality services in addition to sterilization expertise. This relationship provides a heightened ability to help our customers reach the market more rapidly with the contract packaging and sterilization offered by ZIEN.
2018
November
ZIEN completes Ethylene Oxide sterilization validation and begins offering contract packaging and sterilization.
June
ZIEN qualifies Tyvek Pouch line for sterile packaging and begins offering packaging services.
2016
September
ZIEN completes installation of Class 10,000 cleanroom
July
Distal Access launches new RESECTR device for tissue resection with great results
February
ZIEN achieves CE mark for SPINR device
2015
September
ZIEN achieves CE mark on Aspire Aspiration Syringe for Control Medical
August
Veritract completes investigational study with 89% success rate in reaching small bowel
July
Merit Medical acquires the Distal Access SPINR device
June
ZIEN and partners reach acquisition agreement for steerable vascular snare
February
Distal Access begins successful trials with the SPINR device helping to save limbs threatened by thrombus
January
ZIEN and PenBlade launch and trial the PenBlade Safety Scalpel in Europe
ZIEN obtains ISO 13485 Certification
2014
September
ZIEN and PenBlade launch and trial the PenBlade Safety Scalpel in the USA