Paula Astorga, Senior Manager of New Product Introduction and Support Engineering, Hologic A path of dreams and effort will be crowned with great success. Paula Astorga’s career in a nutshell: a hard-working Materials Engineer who graduated from the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, and who today is Senior Manager of New Product Introduction and Support Engineering [...]
Alajuela, Costa Rica. Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company, has invested in Coyol Free Zone in order to increase its portfolio in Costa Rica. This new investment shows how the multinational company, with more than 40 years of operating in the Costa Rican market and with core competencies in the Life Science fields of nutrition and health, [...]
Interview with Álvaro Carballo Pinto, President of Coyol Free Trade Zone. Businessman and pioneer of the free zones in Costa Rica and President of Coyol Free Zone, Álvaro Carballo Pinto gives us his top piece of advice: remove the boxes that hold your ideas. If it is true that destiny marks a human being’s purpose, Carballo, [...]
MicroVention started operations in Costa Rica in 2012, and is to invest US $80 million in a new 20,000-meter-squared plant. The American-Japanese company, MicroVention-Terumo from the life sciences sector, announced that it will expand its operations in Costa Rica. With an investment of close to US $80 million by the end of 2022, it will build [...]
Energy and water savings along with good environmental quality are the assets to highlight in the operation of the Medtronic building. Medtronic’s certification showcases the good practices that are followed in Costa Rica in terms of sustainability, leadership and proper use of spaces. Medtronic, a world leader in technology, solutions and medical services, announces that its [...]
San José, Costa Rica, December 1st, 2020 -- Nevro Corp. (NYSE: NVRO), a global medical device company that is providing innovative, evidence-based solutions for the treatment of chronic pain, announced on September 14, 2020 plans to establish global manufacturing operations in Costa Rica to support future growth initiatives. Nevro chose Coyol Free Zone as its location [...]
More than one million medical devices for women's health are exported annually November. The high added-value that Costa Rica generates for the Life Sciences industry translates into health for thousands of women around the world. Hologic Costa Rica, a company that employs more than 700 employees in the Coyol Free Zone in Alajuela, specializes in the [...]
Flexibility and a robust free zone transportation system keep operations going during the pandemic November. The COVID-19 pandemic has reaffirmed the strategic position that Costa Rica holds as a country where companies in the Life Sciences sector can enjoy business continuity despite unprecedented situations. In a recent event hosted by Inversión Inmobiliaria Magazine called LifeSciences: Insights [...]
Positioned #7 in the Top Free Zones 2020 ranking November 2020. Coyol Free Zone, the leading free zone in medical device exports in the country, continues to achieve success in global rankings. This time, the international publication, Site Selection Magazine, placed Coyol Free Zone for the fourth consecutive year in the Top Free Zones 2020, this [...]
Coyol Free Zone, a completely Costa Rican company and a leader in medical devices exports, was recognized by the prestigious magazine, The European of Thompson Reuters, as the Best Free Zone in Latin America. Additionally, Coyol Free Zone was ranked #7 in the world's Top 10 zones, also confirmed by fDi Intelligence, a monitoring tool of [...]
