Russia-based medical equipment supplier Metiz Impex purchased projects from MaxBionic, a startup developing bionic prostheses. Metiz Impex bought the rights to upper-limb products MeHandA and MeHandA mini and adapters QWD, QD, and Flexion QWD.
MaxBionic cofounder Timur Sayfutdinov called the deal “strategically important” for both sides, according to technology news website Gadgetonus.
“For Metiz Impex, this is a way to close the availability of upper limbs and become the new Ottobock for the Russian and [Commonwealth of Independent States] markets. And Maxbionic has technologies, but it did not have enough resources to guarantee higher consumption,” Saifutdinov said.
