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What Teleflex layoffs have meant for employees

Teleflex describes its footprint realignment as ongoing work. Its 2025 10-K says it continues to execute footprint realignment and other restructuring programs aimed chiefly at its manufacturing and distribution facilities, and its 10-Q restructuring note describes both the 2023 footprint plan and the plan to absorb Biotronik's business as including moves of certain manufacturing to existing lower-cost locations. Teleflex expects to have the 2023 plan substantially done by the end of 2027. The same 10-K counts 3,700 of roughly 15,500 employees in the US, with supply chain staff working primarily in Mexico, Malaysia, the US and the Czech Republic. If you work on a US production line, the phrase to listen for in any announcement is a move to an existing lower-cost location, since that's how Teleflex's own filings describe these plans.

At Asheboro and Maple Grove, job losses came in phases over years. The Labor Department petition list shows Arrow worker groups in Asheboro certified as late as 2021, and the 2015 Asheboro certification covered workers leased from staffing firms as well as Arrow's own employees, so contract staff on those lines were part of it. Maple Grove's record holds two separate episodes, a product-line transfer that Teleflex's own 2021 trade petition described and a closing notice MedTech Dive reported in 2025. A site that goes through more than one round gets more than one set of dates, so if yours has already given up a line, it's worth keeping a dated note of each phase you're told about and what came with it.

Since December 2025 the cuts have had a second source, Teleflex's decision to sell whole businesses. It first announced a strategic transformation in February 2025 and in December agreed to sell Acute Care and Interventional Urology to Intersurgical and its OEM business to Montagu and Kohlberg, its June 2026 10-Q says. Its 2026 restructuring plan is designed to eliminate the costs those sales leave stranded in the company that remains, chiefly by cutting jobs and rationalizing capital assets. The same filing's restructuring note expects some of the plan's actions to come as the transition services agreements end, though it doesn't tie those actions to particular jobs or sites. If Teleflex asks you to stay through the transition, it's worth knowing that the note also budgets retention incentives to keep critical functions running.

The vascular intervention business Teleflex bought from Biotronik in 2025 brought a consolidation of its own. CEO Liam Kelly told investors in February 2025 that the company aimed to take the combined facilities of Biotronik's business and the part of Teleflex it planned to keep from 19 to seven, the same MedTech Dive report said. The integration plan begun late that year names the global sales force alongside administrative functions, Teleflex's own estimate puts its restructuring charges at $26 million to $31 million, and Teleflex expects the plan to be largely finished by the end of 2028. For sales staff, that plan is worth watching, since its filing names the sales force outright.

Teleflex's documented job losses and filings fall in North Carolina at Asheboro, Pennsylvania at the Reading-area plants a February 2010 certification covered, Minnesota at Maple Grove, and California, Georgia and New Jersey through its other tracker filings. Health coverage after a job ends turns partly on timing for anyone in the businesses Intersurgical is buying. For employees who move with them, the sale agreement puts continuation coverage under COBRA on Teleflex's side for qualifying events before closing and on the buyer's for events on or after it. If your job ends near the closing date, it's worth knowing which side of that line the qualifying event falls on, since the agreement assigns the coverage by that date.

A sourced history of Teleflex layoffs

• First quarter 2026, restructuring tied to the business sales

  Teleflex began a restructuring plan to eliminate the stranded costs of its business sales, mainly through workforce reductions and asset rationalization, expecting some actions as transition services agreements end and substantial completion by mid-2028, its 10-Q restructuring note says.

• Fourth quarter 2025, cuts to fold in Biotronik's vascular unit

  Teleflex began realigning its global sales force, with workforce reductions and moves of manufacturing to lower-cost sites, to absorb the Vascular Intervention business it bought from BIOTRONIK, per its 2025 10-K; its June-quarter 10-Q counts $21.0 million in charges.

• April 2025, Maple Grove site set to close

  Closing Teleflex's Maple Grove facility, which made diagnostic and interventional catheters, was expected to affect 101 positions under a notice MedTech Dive obtained, with most lab and manufacturing work set to end June 30 and layoffs July 1.

• 2020 to 2021, Maple Grove catheter work shifted abroad

  Teleflex's petition said Maple Grove product lines were moving to a Teleflex plant in Mexico, and the Labor Department, finding production had shifted abroad, certified intravenous catheter workers there separated from May 6, 2020, in a June 2021 determination.

• 2014 to 2017, Asheboro plant downsized

  Teleflex announced the Asheboro plant's closing in 2014, BioSpace reported, and a Labor Department certification tied the decline among workers separated from March 2014 through May 2017 to production shifted to a country with a US free trade agreement.

• 2008 to 2010, Arrow's Reading-area jobs tied to Mexico shift

  On a United Steelworkers local's petition, the Labor Department certified Arrow workers in Wyomissing, Reading and Spring Ridge, Pennsylvania, separated from June 15, 2008, finding Arrow had shifted part of its component production to Mexico, its February 2010 certification shows.

What to do if you're laid off from Teleflex

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Teleflex's biggest hubs: North Carolina, Georgia, California, New Jersey. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Teleflex's hub states run: North Carolina, Georgia, California, New Jersey, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.