Pioneer Surgical Technology, based in Marquette, Michigan

Marquette, Michigan

Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the most populated city of the Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, primarily for shipping iron ore and is the home of Northern...

, is Michigan

Michigan

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's largest private medical technology

Medical technology

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 company. The company was founded in 1992 by Matthew Songer

Matthew Songer

Matthew Songer is an American surgeon and Chairman of the Board of Pioneer Surgical Technology, which he founded in 1992 and based in Marquette, Michigan....

 and its first major product was the Songer Cable, used is spine surgeries. The Songer Cable was featured in the book, "Contemporary Management of Spinal Cord Injuries: From Impact to Rehabilitation" http://books.google.com/books?id=UUfs4lYLFZEC&pg=PA166&lpg=PA166&dq=songer+cable&source=web&ots=mZP04PoHQX&sig=EoJLn-QQYKhAPFEVk6rntltrky0#PPA165,M1

Pioneer Surgical now makes a wide array of devices as channeled through their three divisions: spine, biologics and orthopaedics.

In 2007, Pioneer acquired Angstrom Medica, a Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 based medical company focused on Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with developing materials, devices, or other structures possessing at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometres...

 http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ONART&C=Bio&ARTICLE_ID=310518&p=109 and Encelle, A North Carolina

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 based company researching and developing tissue regeneration products. http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=3057.php

Pioneer is the largest private employer in the city of Marquette, as well as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Honors and awards

• Orthopaedics News named it a "Top Company to Watch" in 2005.
• Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
  Jennifer Granholm
  Jennifer Mulhern Granholm is a Canadian-born American politician, educator, and author who served as Attorney General and 47th Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, Granholm became Michigan's first female governor on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded Governor...
  
   visited Pioneer in 2005 and cited Pioneer as an example of job creation in the Upper Peninsula. http://www.michigan.gov/gov/0,1607,7-168-23442-132323--,00.html