Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Health Care
Industry
Health Care
Headquarters
United Kingdom UK
Employees
40
IPO date
Feb 12, 1997

Rua Life Sciences is a UK medical technology company that develops and commercializes products for surgery and implanted devices. Its work centers on biomaterials and tissue-based technologies that can be used in areas such as cardiovascular repair and other specialist procedures. In simple terms, it sells medical products and technology built to replace or repair damaged tissue and to help other device makers improve their own products.

The company makes money in a few ways: by selling its own medical devices and components, by supplying biomaterial technology to other companies, and by earning fees or royalties from licensing that technology. Its main customers are hospitals, surgeons, and medical device manufacturers. That gives it a place in the healthcare value chain between laboratory research and the finished products used in operating rooms.

What makes the business different is that it is not just a single-device seller. It combines product sales with intellectual property and licensing around specialized biomaterials, so it can earn income from both its own branded offerings and from partners who use its technology. That mix makes it more of a niche medical materials and device company than a broad healthcare supplier.

Rua Life Sciences PLC Investor Relations

Address
2 Drummond Crescent
Ayrshire
United Kingdom

Business Segments

Tissue implants

This part develops and sells collagen-based surgical patches and tissue repair devices for use in procedures such as blood vessel repair and heart surgery.

Customers

Hospitals, surgeons, and medical device partners that use or distribute implantable repair products.

Revenue Model

It makes money from selling finished devices and from supply or partnership agreements tied to those products.

Polymer materials

This part makes the Elast-Eon material and related products that are used in long-term implantable medical devices.

Customers

Other medical device companies and research partners that need biocompatible polymer material for implants.

Revenue Model

It makes money from material sales, development work, and licensing or collaboration agreements.

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Management

Mr. William Donald Brown

Chief Executive

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Mr. Lachlan Arthur Smith

CFO & Director

Biography unavailable

Kathryn Mary Full FCCA

Company Secretary

Biography unavailable

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