THE STORY: Vitae Industries Inc. in Providence began helping the pharmaceutical industry become more efficient when the company introduced its AutoCompounder product. Pharmacists would program the AutoCompounder to create actual medicine doses and the 3D printer will print the doses depending on the medication that is prescribed for patients.
› Vitae first created the AutoCompounder in 2018. Currently, the company makes more than 25 units per year but expects to increase production fourfold over the next year.
› Each AutoCompounder costs between $15,000 and $20,000.
› Vitae sources materials and custom components from machine shops and manufacturers around the Northeast and the country to help build the AutoCompounders. The final assembly and testing of the platform happens in-house.
› It takes approximately seven days and two employees to make each AutoCompounder from start to finish.
› Vitae Industries employs six people.
