The city of Mentor was named a Premier Life Sciences Ready Community by the Ohio Life Sciences Association (OLS).
Modeled after Massachusetts’ successful BioReady® Community Program, this designation allows cities, townships, and counties across Ohio to apply for formal recognition of their readiness to support life sciences companies.
Mentor is the only city in northern Ohio to receive this designation. The cities of Mason and New Albany were also designated as premier life science communities.
“The designation of Mentor as one of three Premier Life Science Ready Communities in the State of Ohio is a unique distinction and demonstrates how a community can actively foster cutting-edge research and development,” says Director of Economic Development and International Trade Kevn Malecek, “It is another example of why the City of Mentor has received both domestic and global recognition as a community where business can thrive and prosper, particularly within the scope of the Northeast Ohio healthcare ecosystem.”
The City of Mentor is a manufacturing leader in the State of Ohio with a strong concentration of research and development, engineering, and metalworking firms serving the advanced manufacturing, aerospace, polymers & chemicals, and biomedical industry clusters. Mentor is home to world leaders in the life sciences industry including the STERIS Corporation which was founded in Mentor in 1985
Mentor ranks 7th in the State of Ohio in the number of manufacturers (300) and 8th in manufacturing employment. Over $2.5 billion in manufactured goods ship from Mentor annually.
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