Breast implant manufacturer aims to meet demand

STAFF at Britain’s biggest breast implant factory, near Glasgow, are working overtime to meet demand from thousands of women desperate to replace their PIP implants.

Silicone manufacturer Nagor has offered to replace 40,000 implants made by disgraced French firm Poly Implant Prothese.

The company, based in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, makes 80,000 implants a year.

Workers at the vast factory are now working overtime to meet expected demand after owners began talks with hospital groups Nuffield Health Hospitals, BMI Healthcare, the NHS, Ramsay Health Care UK and Spire Healthcare.

Douglas Black, national sales manager for Nagor, said the company hoped to lower prices of replacements for PIP implants.

He said: “This shouldn’t be about companies making a profit it should be about trying to help all these women who have been fitted with inferior quality implants.

“People need to be helped first before we find someone to blame, and we are trying to be as pro-active as we can to help these patients.”

Nagor has been making breast implants since 1991.