IQUEGO and HMD Taiwan Both Signed Contract of Partnership

HMD Biomedical launches Brazil BOT project.

HMD Biomedical, together with Brazil state-owned pharmaceutical enterprise Iquego, held a press conference on the 4th of June to publicly announce its Brazil Blood Glucose BOT Project. The partnership between IQUEGO and HMD Taiwan Inc. shall be five years and produce glucose meters and also the strips for measuring blood glucose.

Production was scheduled to begin in 2017 at IQUEGO’s facilities in Goiás state, with technicians providing technical support. The partnership aimed to supply over one billion blood glucose test strips annually to Brazil’s public healthcare system through a co-branded business model, making IQUEGO the first Brazilian manufacturer of such equipment.