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Flex Ltd. FLEX announced the launch of a New Product Introduction (NPI) center near Boston, dedicated to serving healthcare customers. This state-of-the-art facility is designed to support the entire product development journey from prototype to preclinical builds, design verification and production transfer, enabling faster, more scalable and lower-risk market entry for medical products.
It is equipped with a full suite of design for excellence services, ensuring that product designs are optimized and fully prepared for manufacturing across a wide range of critical factors.
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What Does the NPI Center Offer?
The center will support a wide range of healthcare applications, including surgical robotics, medical devices, medical technology systems, imaging equipment and lab diagnostic tools.
The facility boasts an 8,000 sq. ft. NPI lab capable of running multiple production lines concurrently, along with a 2,000 sq. ft. quality and design validation testing lab. It will operate under Flex's world-class healthcare quality management system and is expected to achieve ISO13485 certification by the second quarter of the 2025 calendar year.
Part of Flex’s global network of approximately 100 sites, the new NPI center allows seamless integration between design and manufacturing operations across regions. With the ability to engage at any stage of the product lifecycle, Flex continues to help healthcare companies navigate increasing complexity across the value chain — designing, building, delivering and servicing innovative medical products that enhance patient care.
FLEX’s Robust Strategies Bode Well
Momentum in data center, medical devices and consumer-related markets are driving Flex’s performance. The data center business stands to benefit from AI-powered cloud transformation. In the fiscal third quarter, AI-driven cloud transformation led to 45% year-over-year growth in the data center business. The company continues to anticipate a long-term, multi-year data center CAGR of 20%. Its innovative suite of power products and services enhances customer satisfaction. All these factors are favorably positioning Flex for the AI-powered technology shift, prevalent in the industry, from grid to chip and from the cloud to the edge.
The strategic buyout aims to expand Flex’s service footprint across emerging markets, such as data center, enterprise and lifestyle, unlocking new sources of revenues and fostering sustainability through second-life products. In third-quarter fiscal 2025, Flex successfully completed its previously announced acquisitions of JetCool Technologies and Crown Systems, both of which bring essential technologies to its data center portfolio. JetCool enhances its direct-to-chip liquid cooling capabilities, while Crown Systems strengthens its critical power solutions for data centers and expands its opportunities in grid modernization.