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1970 - Zimmer annual sales reach $27.2 million. Employment totals
522 employees.
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1970s - Experiments begin on use of porous materials to encourage
bone growth around implants.
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1971 - Zimmer markets its first metal-plastic combination
Charnley-type total hip prosthesis.
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1972 - Zimmer becomes a subsidiary of New York-based Bristol-Myers.
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1972 - Zimmer becomes the first company to successfully mold
polyethylene into a viable orthopaedic product when hip cups from
the material are introduced at the AAOS annual meeting in
Washington, D.C.
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1973 - Zimmer markets its first metal-plastic total knee prosthesis.
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1977 - The purchase of Nemoto Shokai, a marketing concern on Japan,
helps form the current Zimmer-Japan.
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1977 - Zimmer had been the exclusive distributor of Snyder Lab's
highly successful wound drainage devices prior to acquiring this
Ohio-based company Snyder Labs later became part of Zimmer Patient
Care Division.
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1979 - The arrival of CAD/CAM system permits rapid design and
evolution on product ideas and gives Zimmer a fully integrated
computer system to maximize efficiency and to refine manufacturing
quality to state-of-the-art standards.
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