# Croom Medical breaks ground on €18m orthopaedic centre in Limerick

Croom Medical broke ground on an €18 million, 38,000 sq ft Advanced Centre of Orthopaedic Technologies (ACOT) in Limerick, Ireland. The facility will house R&D and industrialisation for orthopaedic implant manufacturing.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2026-03-05
- Where: Limerick, Ireland
- Value: $19.0M (18.0M EUR)
- Status: under construction
- Products: orthopaedic implants, shoulder, hip, knee, spine, trauma implants
- Sectors: [Medical Devices](https://endata.com/sectors/medical-devices.md)

## Companies

- [Croom Medical](https://endata.com/companies/90459.md)

## Sources

- [epma.com](https://www.epma.com/croom-medical-breaks-ground/), 2026-03-05: "ACOT isn’t about adding capacity. It’s a shift into a true R&D and industrialisation centre of excellence, built to develop new capability and transfer it into validated production at scale."

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