Filtration Group acquires Buffalo Filter

Filtration Group has added surgical smoke evacuation specialist Buffalo Filter to its growing portfolio of companies.

Founded in 1991 and based in Lancaster, NY, Buffalo Filter is a medical device manufacturer and supplier of surgical smoke evacuation equipment used to evacuate and filter hazardous smoke plume and/or aerosols created during surgical procedures.

Buffalo Filter manufactures hundreds of OEM, private label and co-labeled products and offer its own brand of smoke evacuation equipment, filters and accessories used by a wide variety of medical specialties. The company distributes its products and services throughout the U.S. and 52 countries world-wide.

Buffalo Filter will become a part of the Filtration Group’s Medical Solutions Group.

The Buffalo Filter purchase follows Filtration Group’s recently completed acquisition of Porex.