please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . august 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message gambro type business unit of baxter international . industry healthcare founded 1964 in lund by holger crafoord headquarters deerfield illinois u.s. number of employees approx . 7 500 parent baxter international website www.gambro.com www.crrtcounts.com gambro is a global medical technology company that manufactures products for dialysis treatment . the company is a global leader in developing manufacturing and supplying products and therapies for kidney and liver dialysis myeloma kidney therapy and other extracorporeal therapies for chronic and acute patients . gambro was founded in lund sweden in 1964 by holger crafoord and has approx . 8 000 employees production facilities in 9 countries and sales in more than 100 countries . 1 in september 2013 baxter intl. completed its acquisition of gambro . 2 history edit professor nils alwall invented one of the first artificial kidneys in 1961 . three years later he met industrialist and businessman holger crafoord who was impressed by alwall s invention and felt compelled to develop and market this life saving innovation . 3 the development of single use artificial kidneys began in lund sweden and mass production started in 1967 with the ad modum alwall dialyzer . the company adopted the name gambro which is the abbreviation of the original swedish company name gamla brogatans sjukv rdsaff r aktiebolag . roughly translated this means the old bridge street medical supplies company . the company s first plant outside sweden was built in hechingen germany in the 1970s . in 1983 gambro became listed on the stockholm stock exchange . on april 3 2006 indap ab joint owned by swedish investment companies eqt and investor ab announced a public cash offer to the shareholders of gambro to acquire all outstanding shares in the company . the new ownership structure of gambro became effective in june 2006 . 3 in recent decades gambro s range of products and therapies has grown through the introduction of new products as well as several acquisitions such as hospal in 1987 cobe in 1990 teraklin in 2004 and the latest addition of chf solutions inc. in 2010 . chf solutions designs and manufactures therapies and products for treating fluid overload by means of ultrafiltration . 4 in july 2013 baxter international s bid for gambro was approved by eu antitrust regulators . 5 organization edit gambro has production facilities in 9 countries . the company s newest plant is a manufacturing facility in opelika alabama usa which started production in 2009 . 6 the largest manufacturing facility is located in hechingen germany employing approx . 1 380 people . the company says it focuses on bringing new innovative products and therapies to the market and today owns the rights to more than 1800 patents . gambro has 350 r & d employees in 4 locations all over europe . the company has offices and representatives in more than 100 countries . around 350 000 chronic renal disease patients are treated with gambro products every year ; this is approximately one quarter of all dialysis patients worldwide . references edit gambro 2014 . about gambro . gambro . retrieved december 11 2014 . baxter 2013 . baxter acquires gambro . baxter . retrieved december 11 2014 . a b lund university 2005 . nils alwall the artificial kidney and gambro . lund university . retrieved december 11 2014 . gambro 2014 . aquadex flexflow . gambro . retrieved december 11 2014 . foo yun chee 10 july 2013 . eu to clear baxter s 4 billion buy of sweden s gambro sources . reuters . sara falligant 2014 . opelika . opelika auburn news . retrieved december 11 2014 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gambro & oldid 637654643 categories companies established in 1964health care companies of swedenhidden categories articles needing additional references from august 2013all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitaliano svenska edit links this page was last modified on 11 december 2014 at 18 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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