Founded in 1987, Merit Medical Systems is one of the leading manufacturers and marketers of disposable proprietary medical products used in diagnostic and interventional cardiology and radiology procedures. Its primary products consist of inflating devices used in angioplasty, stent placement, and other clinical procedures requiring fluid dispensing with pressure monitoring capability, and guide wires used to place balloon angioplasty catheters. The company s other products include control syringes, high-pressure tubing and connectors, specialty syringes, waste handling and disposal systems, blood pressure transducers, hemostasis valves, and contrast management systems. The company is ISO 9001 and EN46001-certified and serves hospital-based invasive cardiologists and radiologists, technicians and nurses. Merit Medical Systems operates in the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium, and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah.