Heart valves save lives
Since 2004 we have also supplied a very special group of customers: cardiac patients.
Every day 1,500 heart valves are dispatched to Frankfurt airport. From there, the organ material is sent off to an English company in Leeds and a Californian business in North America. The heart valves are prepared in the USA and marketed worldwide. We also provdide Berlin's Charité hospital with four hundred heart valves every week. The global requirement for medical material cannot be covered by organ donors alone.
Blood-thinning products
The pigs' organs also supply a further product with a medical use and this is used to make blood-thinning drugs. These preparations are used for heart attack or stroke patients.
We are proud that we can meet the extremely high demands of doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. This has made us one of the most important suppliers of pig heart valves worldwide.