Frequently asked questions

Emdyca is a search engine for medical device manufacturers in Europe. Describe a device or a need, and Emdyca shows you who makes it, where the manufacturer is based, which models it offers and in which countries it is present. The database currently lists 9,627 manufacturers, 171,301 models and 2,192 device categories, taken from the official European register.

For anyone who needs to know who makes what in the medical device world:

• hospital buyers and biomedical engineers;
• sales teams, distributors and manufacturers;
• consultants, researchers and journalists;
• students and job seekers;
• companies looking for a supplier, a subcontractor or a partner.

Searching and browsing are free, with no sign-up. Exporting a table to CSV is free too: you receive a download link by email.

Just type what you are looking for, in your own words: “infusion pump”, “hospital bed”, “defibrillator”, “leg rehabilitation device”… Emdyca suggests the matching device categories, with the number of manufacturers in each. Pick one to see the list of manufacturers.

No, that is exactly what the site is for. You don't need to know official codes or regulatory vocabulary: describe the device as you would to a colleague. Search works in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, and tolerates common typos.

Yes. Type the trade name or the reference (for example a product code): Emdyca finds the matching models and their manufacturer. Handy for identifying the maker of a device when all you have is its label.

Try a broader wording (“bed” rather than “air-fluidised bed”) or browse all categories. If nothing fits, use the “I didn't find it” button: your request helps us complete the database, and we can let you know if you leave your email.

For each device category, you get the list of manufacturers with:

• their country and number of models in the category;
• the risk class of the devices (I, IIa, IIb, III, or A to D for in vitro diagnostics);
• trade names and the number of references for each model;
• their market presence, country by country;
• the public contracts they have won;
• their EU authorised representative when they are based outside the European Union.

Each manufacturer's page brings together its whole range, category by category.

This badge means we have evidence that the manufacturer is present in that country: either it declared placing one of its devices on the market there in the European register, or it won a public contract for medical devices there. Your own country is highlighted by default. No badge does not mean the manufacturer doesn't sell there, only that we haven't found evidence of it.

These are tenders from hospitals and public bodies that a manufacturer (or its subsidiary) has won: in France since 2022, and in other European countries since late 2023. It is a concrete indicator of its real activity in each country. Where available, a link leads to the official notice published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Yes. Filter by manufacturer country, by market presence in a country or by name, then export the table to CSV to work on it in a spreadsheet. The download link is sent to you by email (one export per day per address).

Widen your supplier panel before a tender, find alternatives to a device, check who actually makes a device sold under another brand, find a device's official risk class in an instant, spot manufacturers already present in your country, or identify the maker of a device that needs repair. In seconds, you get an overview that used to take hours of research.

Map your competitors in a category, see where they are present and which public contracts they win. Distributors: find manufacturers to represent, especially those based outside Europe or absent from your country. Manufacturers: keep an eye on new players entering your market.

Discover the companies in a field you care about (cardiology, orthopaedics, diagnostics…), in your region or across Europe, and target speculative applications and internship requests at companies you would never have found otherwise.

Find the manufacturers specialised in a product type, their country and the breadth of their range: a solid starting point for an industrial partnership, market research, subcontractor search or competitive intelligence. You can also browse all manufacturers alphabetically.

From public, official sources: EUDAMED, the European medical device register run by the European Commission, the European Medical Device Nomenclature (EMDN), French public procurement data and contract award notices published at European level (TED). Emdyca brings them together, makes them searchable in plain language and updates them regularly.

It is growing all the time. Since 28 May 2026, manufacturers must register their devices in EUDAMED, with a transition period: some devices are therefore not there yet, and we regularly add new categories. The information is what manufacturers have declared: always check with them before a purchasing decision.

No. Emdyca is an independent service, with no link to the European Commission or to any manufacturer. No manufacturer pays to appear or to rank higher: the order of results depends only on the data.

The information comes from your declarations in EUDAMED: that is where it is corrected, and the change will appear on Emdyca at the next update. If your category is not covered yet or you spot a mistake on our side, write to us and choose “I am a manufacturer”.

Yes. There are no accounts, no advertising cookies and no external trackers. Search text is stored without your name or IP address, only to improve the service. Full details are on the About page.