ABOUT EPFLEX
To give you an insight into our company, we would like to start with a brief review: EPflex started in a garage in Dettingen an der Erms, a Swabian town not far south from Stuttgart. Here, in 1994, we founded EPflex. Everything we had was a vision. Many ideas arose combined with the ability and the expertise to implement these ideas.
Today, EPflex is one of the world’s leading OEM manufacturers of metallic components for minimally invasive medicine. With numerous patents and innovations, we rank among the pioneers and get closer to the vision of contributing with our ideas and products to secure the health of people around the world.
Bernhard Uihlein
Founder
EPflex Feinwerktechnik GmbH
Quality down to the smallest detail
“We focus on people’s health”. In short, that is our ethical principle to which we direct our thinking and actions. It is essential that everything we develop and manufacture meets the highest quality standards. Whether guide wires, stone retrieval baskets or services.
Our highest quality standards also apply to our customised solutions. We fully implement the requirements of our customers and guarantee the highest product quality by providing consistent production and process reliability.
EPflex is certified according to
Quality Management System
ISO 13485
Quality Management System
Annex II – excluding Section 4 of Council Directive 93/42/EEC
EC Design Examination Certificate
Council Directive 93/42/EEC Annex II Section 4
380
highly specialised employees
7000
square meters of production area
40150
kilometres of wire processing per year
Milestones
1994
Foundation of EPflex in a garage and production of the first stainless steel guide wires
1996
First Nitinol guide wires
1997
Production of nitinol stone baskets for gastroenterology
1998
Purchase of the first building for production in Dettingen
2001
Production of tipless stone baskets with the patented disc system
2002
Enlargement of the building
2005
Patent registration for MR-compatible guide wire
2006
Production of hydrophilic guide wire
2009
Production of the first TAVI-wire
2010
Invention of the patented EPflex handle for stone baskets
2011
Own CE-certification
2012
Construction of the second building in Dettingen with a class 8 clean room
2012
Production of the first CE-certified, MR-compatible guide wire
2017
52 registered patents since 1994
2019
completion and occupation of plant III
2019
EPflex celebrates 25 years in business
2020
EPflex has more than 400 employees
2021
Handover of the management from Bernhard Uihlein to his two sons Johannes and Georg
Rooted in the region – at home in the world
EPflex products are used in hospitals around the world. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of that, we are deeply rooted in the Neckar-Alb region and consider it one of our tasks to support social, charitable, sporting or cultural initiatives here in our homeland.
Elterninitative Herzkranker Kinder e.V.
TSV Dettingen an der Erms
TV 1893 Neuhausen
Musikverein Neuhausen-Erms e.V.
TTC Frickenhausen e.V.
TEB Allstars e.V.
Musikschule Metzingen e.V.
