DEERFIELD, IL—Medical equipment maker Baxter International is expanding a Cleveland, MS, plant, with plans to add 50 to 100 new employees in about two years. The Associated Press re[ports that the company is doubling capacity at its Cleveland plant to fill bottles of irrigation solution used to clean tissue and wounds.
Baxter is also adding equipment to begin making a new version of a product used to stop bleeding during surgeries, called Floseal Hemostatic Matrix. The company has already started construction on an addition to the plant.