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V O L . X X I I N O. X X V I N OV E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 6 14 35,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility with another building that will be 69,000-plus square feet. e company also has 15,000 square feet of manufacturing in Auburn that it may integrate in Gray once the new facility is completed. Enercon is privately held and would not disclose sales except to say it has been growing at double digits annually since 2009 and has been profi table since it was founded in 1980. About one- quarter of sales are to Maine companies, with the rest mostly to other domestic companies and some overseas. While most of the company's cus- tomers are confi dential, MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta in early October became the fi rst hospital in the state to install and use Marlborough, Mass.-based Boston Scientifi c's next-generation SpyGlass DS Direct Visualization endoscope, much of whose electronics are made by Enercon. e company also recently started mak- ing the Livi, an automated medication dispenser connected to the internet of things for PharmRight Corp., a telehealth technology company based in Charleston, S.C. And it makes a product for VueTek Scientifi c LLC, also in Gray, called the Veinsite, a headset that uses near infrared technology to visualize and highlight blood vessels on a com- puter screen so practitioners inserting intravenous needles or drawing blood can do so more accurately, sticking the patient fewer times accidently. It is especially useful for children, the elderly and people with darker skin, according to Enercon. It was a former Boston Scientifi c worker, now at VueTek, who connected the $8 billion-a-year Massachusetts medical device maker with Enercon. " e key diff erentiator for our com- pany is product development and engi- neering from concept through manu- facturing," says Ryan Marcotte, general manager of Enercon. "As an original design manufacturer, we perform inte- grated product design, development and device manufacturing." at means manufacturing engineers talk with designers from the get-go, so designs move smoothly into manufacturing pro- cesses, he adds. Enercon's products carry the brand label of its customers. " ey helped in the move from the engineering of our Livi product to their manufacturing system," says Bill Park, P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY Under the hood Little-known design, device maker Enercon plans to triple presence in Gray B y l o r i V a l i g r a C O N T I N U E D F R O M C O V E R Ryan Marcotte, general manager of Gray-based Enercon, demonstrates how VueTek's Veinsite works. The Veinsite is portable and hands-free by using a headset to allow clinicians to detect diffi cult veins. It is one of many products Enercon makes for other companies. The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator The key differentiator for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is for our company is product development and engineering from concept through manufacturing. — Ryan Marcotte, general manager of Enercon

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