Health tech firm to set up Stirling HQ
A member of staff at a Stirling care home entertained residents and kids as the Easter Bunny over the holiday weekend.
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A health tech firm is set to open headquarters in Stirling later this year.
Emblation, which has a staff of 46, has struck a partnership deal with a leading German medical device company and is scheduled to move into Castle Business Park premises in August.
It is launching its Swift device – which uses microwave technology to treat common podiatry problems – into German and Austrian clinics.
The move is part of a growth strategy and will see Emblation extend across the continent, with the German launch seen as the key to unlock growth.
Co-founder and CEO of Emblation Gary Beale said: “Up until now we have been planning our presence in mainland Europe and our recent investment was all about changing that, so we are extremely pleased to be making such rapid progress.”
Currently based in Alloa, the firm is currently fitting out a new purpose-built, 20,000 sq ft headquarters at Castle Business Park.
Emblation’s Swift device enables medical professionals to resolve persistent common and plantar warts (verrucae) with a simple microwave treatment and has won widespread praise and recognition within both the medical and technology arena.
The firm is also growing its research and development capability to build on promising early results which could result in breakthroughs in the treatment of skin cancers and pre-cancers as well.
Germany is to be the centre of the company’s European growth with expansion.
Emblation was founded in 2008 by Gary Beale and Eamon Mcerlean, who met during post-graduate studies at University in Edinburgh, with the purposes of creating more accessible, reliable and compact medical microwave systems and to develop therapies that could be used in dermatology and podiatry to overcome the shortfalls in traditional treatments for skin lesions.