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CITEC (Changzhou Intl. Trade & Enterprises Cooperative Co., Ltd) is a medical device supplier of minimally invasive surgery, gastroenterology and infection prevention products, founded in 2000 and serving healthcare professionals and distributors in more than 60 countries and regions. The 24 answers below are condensed from CITEC's published company, product, quality assurance and ESG pages.
Key facts
The verified company facts below are cited most often by buyers, tender teams and registration departments. Each figure is repeated in the full answers that follow.
01 — COMPANY
Who CITEC is, when and where it operates, and whether buyers deal with a manufacturer or an intermediary.
CITEC is the trading name of Changzhou Intl. Trade & Enterprises Cooperative Co., Ltd, a medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and distributes products for minimally invasive surgery, gastroenterology and infection prevention. Its catalogue ranges from trocars, clip appliers and specimen retrieval bags to gastrointestinal stents, ERCP accessories and single-use endoscopy consumables.
CITEC was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, at No.20 Floor, Huajing Building, No.1 Hejing Garden, Zhonglou District, Changzhou 213000. Commercial, quality and export activities for all three divisions are coordinated from this office.
CITEC products are sold in more than 60 countries and regions. The company holds CE certification for its products and supplies both healthcare professionals and medical device distributors outside China.
CITEC describes its scope as covering design and development, manufacture and distribution across its three product divisions. Buyers therefore work with a single supplier for product development, production and export, rather than sourcing only through an intermediary.
CITEC is an official member of the China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) and of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines & Health Products (CCCMHPIE). Both memberships are listed on the company profile page.
02 — PRODUCTS
What each division contains, which endoscope platforms the consumables fit, and how single-use and reusable products are separated.
CITEC organises its catalogue into three divisions: minimally invasive surgery (access and trocars, ligation, specimen retrieval, hand instruments, suction and irrigation, mesh and fixation, pediatric surgery, staplers, reusable instrument sets), gastroenterology (stents, biopsy, polypectomy, foreign body retrieval, hemostasis, dilation, ERCP) and infection prevention (endoscopy procedure, bedside pre-cleaning, transport and storage, endoscope reprocessing).
The MIS range includes disposable and reusable trocars in 5, 10 and 12 mm diameters, including a Hasson trocar for open primary-port placement, and a 10 mm disposable clip applier pre-loaded with 20 titanium clips. It continues with endoloops, specimen retrieval bags, monopolar and bipolar electrodes, suction-irrigation sets, hernia mesh and fixation, surgical staplers, and specialty instrument sets for single-port, bariatric, gynecological, pediatric and thoracoscopic procedures.
Yes. CITEC maintains a dedicated pediatric laparoscopic surgery line comprising disposable trocars, mini monopolar instruments, mini bipolar instruments, a dual-spike suction-irrigation set and a complete pediatric instrument set. These are listed as a separate specialty category alongside the adult single-port, bariatric, gynecological and thoracoscopic sets.
The gastroenterology range covers non-vascular stents (esophageal, biliary, colonic/duodenal/rectal and tracheal/bronchial), biopsy and polypectomy accessories, foreign body retrieval, hemostasis, and dilation with balloons and bougie dilators. For ERCP it supplies hydrophilic guide wires, stone extraction baskets, stone extraction balloons, dilation balloon catheters and balloon inflators.
CITEC endoscopy consumables are model-specific: valve systems, clean caps and channel-cleaning adapters are offered for Olympus endoscopes, Fujifilm 700 series and Pentax 90 and i10 series. Universal items such as irrigation tubes, water jet connectors, bite blocks, biopsy valves, polyp traps and cleaning brushes are not tied to a single scope platform.
Infection prevention follows the endoscope workflow in four stages: endoscopy procedure (valve systems, clean caps, CO2 source tubing and adapters, irrigation, polyp traps, bite blocks), bedside pre-cleaning (tip protectors, tray liners, transport pads), transport and storage, and endoscope reprocessing (channel cleaning brushes, opening brushes, brush kits and channel flushing tube sets). The division also offers the CITEC Endoscopy Procedure Kit.
Both. The catalogue separates single-use disposables — trocars, clip appliers, retrieval bags, stents, endoscope valves and procedure accessories — from reusable laparoscopic instruments, which are supplied as specialty sets for general surgery, bariatric, gynecological, thoracoscopic and single-port procedures, together with sterilization cases.
03 — QUALITY
The certificates, quality system and liability cover that distributors and tender teams ask to verify before an order.
CITEC operates a quality management system implemented according to EN ISO 13485:2016 and cGMP, and has held CE certification for all of its products since 2013. The published document set comprises the EN ISO 13485:2016 certificate, an EC Certificate and a Notified Body confirmation letter.
The certificate set is published on the EN ISO 13485 and CE certificate page, together with the EC Certificate and Notified Body confirmation letter. Distributors who need current copies for tenders or registration files can request them from citec@citec-group.com.
Yes. CITEC carries product liability insurance for all of its products with coverage of USD 1,000,000, valid worldwide including the USA and Canada. The policy is placed through Huatai Insurance Group Company Ltd., a member company of Chubb Group.
CITEC products and the technical information published on this website are intended for healthcare professionals and medical device distributors only, not for the general public. Decisions about any surgical procedure, device selection or patient care must be made by a qualified medical professional.
04 — ORDERING
How quotations are issued, what commercial terms are published, and where brochures, videos and technical material are found.
Send the item reference codes and target quantities to citec@citec-group.com, call +86 519 86803329, or use the enquiry form on the Contact Us page. Every product page publishes its reference codes — for example CIT-ML1020 for the 10 mm disposable clip applier — and quoting is faster when these are included. Catalogues and pricing are provided on request.
No. CITEC does not publish list prices, standard minimum order quantities or fixed lead times, because each depends on the item, the quantity, the packaging configuration and the destination market. These terms are confirmed in the written quotation issued after an enquiry is received.
Each product page carries a brochure entry next to its specification table, and the Technical Support section hosts the product video library for minimally invasive surgery, gastroenterology and infection prevention. Additional documents, including certificates and declaration material, can be requested from the export team.
CITEC supplies medical device distributors and healthcare professionals in more than 60 countries and regions. Private-label and OEM requirements are assessed case by case: send the product specification, target market and expected volumes to citec@citec-group.com for an evaluation.
Email citec@citec-group.com or call +86 519 86803329. The office is at No.20 Floor, Huajing Building, No.1 Hejing Garden, Zhonglou District, Changzhou 213000, Jiangsu, P.R. China. CITEC also publishes its exhibition schedule for buyers who prefer to meet the team in person.
05 — SUSTAINABILITY
Measured environmental commitments that appear in supplier questionnaires and ESG audits.
CITEC reports that 35% of the electricity consumed in 2025 came from its own solar panels, that endoscope valve packaging has moved from a plastic tray plus pouch to blister packing, that degradable material is used for products such as the 100% degradable Eco bowl, and that it operates paperless workflows and provides drinking water dispensers instead of packaged water.
The principal change applies to the endoscope valve system, where the primary package moved from a plastic tray plus pouch to blister packing, and the individual pouch was reduced in size. CITEC states that this lowers plastic consumption and also reduces shipping volume and freight cost.
The Environment Sustainability page documents energy, packaging and material measures, while Social Responsibility and Occupational Health & Safety cover the remaining ESG pillars. A sustainability statement is also published as a PDF on the CITEC website.
Note: product availability, packaging and certification scope are confirmed per order. Figures on this page reflect CITEC's published information as of 21 October 2026; for current documents, contact citec@citec-group.com.
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