Smith & Nephew PLC designs, manufactures and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and ENT technologies, and wound-care solutions. Slightly more than 40% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is a sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 27% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.

Part of Medtronic Plc, Covidien Pte Ltd. is a Singaporean company located in Singapore that manufactures and supplies medical equipment.

3M Innovative Properties Co. acquires and manages intellectual property right. It engages in the acquisition and ownership of the intellectual property rights to the products designed and manufactured by its parent company 3M Corporation. The company was founded on May 10, 1999 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.

Paul Hartmann AG engages in the production of medical and hygiene products. It operates through the following business segments: Wound Management, Incontinence Management, Infection Management, and Other Group Activities. The Wound Management segment includes wound dressing and products for compression therapy and immobilization. The Incontinence Management segment provides incontinence hygiene, medical records, and products for patient and medical skin care. The Infection Management segment consists of surgery sets, surgical clothing, and surgical examination gloves. The Other Group Activities segment focuses on the areas of cotton wool products, feminine hygiene, baby hygiene, medical consumer goods, medicated and dietary supplements, body care and bath products, and commercial business. The company was founded in 1818 and is headquartered in Heidenheim, Germany.

Part of Smith & Nephew plc, T.J. Smith & Nephew Ltd. is a British company located in Hull that manufactures healthcare products. It was founded in 1907. On July 01, 1999 Robinson Healthcare Group Ltd. acquired T.J. Smith & Nephew Ltd. from Smith & Nephew plc for $22.60 million.\nThe company says this about itself: The principal activity of the company is he design. development manufacture and sale of Advanced medical devices.

Molnlycke Health Care is a private company headquartered in Southlake,, that manufactures and sells medical devices.

Applied Tissue Technologies provides wound care technologies. The company products include negative pressure wound therapy, a micro-autograft kit, and a product that aids in topical delivery of pharmaceuticals to skin and wounds.

ConvaTec Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture and marketing of medical products. It products include the proprietary aquace and hydro fiber technology, connate moldable technology, flexi seal, fecal management system and duoderm dressings. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Deeside, the United Kingdom.

Electrochemical Oxygen Concepts, Inc. engages in the development of wound care technology. The firm offers FDA-cleared Class II, a medical device that provides therapy to difficult-to-heal wounds. It also offers TransCu O2 system, an electrochemical tissue oxygenation and wound monitoring system for use with OxySpur Oxygen Diffusion Dressings as an adjunctive therapy to continuously treat oxygen-compromised wounds. The company was founded by Michael C. Wells in 2007 and is headquartered in San Antonio, TX.

Develops, produces and distributes medical and hygiene products

Vomaris Innovations, a regenerative medical device company, develops microcurrent field generating technologies for the wound care market. It is a regenerative medical device company specializing in microcurrent field generating technologies for the wound care market, announced that eight scientific and clinical abstracts on its flagship product Procellera will be presented at the 26th Annual Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) on May 2 - 5, 2013 at the Denver Convention Center. It was founded in 2004 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.

Hill-Rom Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Baxter International, Inc., is an American company that manufactures and sells hospital beds, furniture and health care equipment.

Ethicon, Inc. is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. It was incorporated as a separate company under the Johnson & Johnson umbrella in 1949 to expand and diversify the Johnson & Johnson product line. Ethicon has manufactured surgical sutures and wound closure devices since 1887. After World War II, Ethicon's market share in surgical sutures rose from 15% to 70% worldwide. In the United States, the market share is approximately 80%.

BlueSky Medical Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew plc, is an American company located in Carlsbad, CA. The firm manufactures negative pressure pumps and wound dressing kits. Smith & Nephew plc acquired BlueSky Medical Group, Inc. on May 11, 2007 for $110 million.

Kalypto Medical, Inc. manufactured medical devices. Its devices were used to treat diabetic leg ulcers. The firm also provided wound-care products. The company was founded in 2006 and was headquartered in Hastings, MN.

Nuritas is revolutionising the discovery of novel, natural and scientifically proven active ingredients that can manage and improve human health. The company’s disruptive computational approach to discovery uses artificial intelligence and genomics to, for the first time ever, rapidly and efficiently predict and then provide access to the most health-benefiting components hidden within food, called bioactive peptides.