The Tijuana Economic Development Council (Tijuana EDC) recently published a White Paper that highlights an annual growth of 8.7% in employment of the Medical Device sector since 2004, reaching over 30,000 workers, concentrated in 40 medical manufacturing companies, such as Care Fusion, Medtronic, DJO Global and GreatBatch among others. This number makes Tijuana the premier manufacturing destination for the medical Device sector, outpacing the Minneapolis / Saint Paul metro region and more than double of the entire country of Costa Rica.