Local Business Plans Expansion, Move to Brecksville

Typically, Brecksville has a traditional feel to the city. But a future-looking company, Clinical Technology, Inc., plans to break this tradition and build with green design in mind.

The medical product distributor, originally from Broadview Heights, plans to move for growth reasons. The new facility will need twice the amount of office workers, which could mean jobs for Brecksville residents.

“I’m hoping this is just the beginning,” company President Dennis Forchione said about the growth.

The company currently has three product divisions that it distributes to a 13-state Midwest region: Interventional Radiology and General Surgery, Nursing and I.V. Therapy and Interventional Pain and Anesthesia. Forchione plans to add a neonatal nursery division – a field of growing interest to him.

“We are not just a business,” said Forchione, who started Clinical Technology in 1978. “There’s a lot of opportunities out there to be treated with some of these products that aren’t really in the marketplace right now,” he continued, saying that his company will help many medically.

Examples of products that are distributed are a cryoablation product from Israel that's used to freeze tumors and a microwave ablation product from Salt Lake City that uses heat to banish tumors with minimal invasion.

The company markets these types of futuristic inventions and would like the new structure in Brecksville to reflect that theme.

“It’s sort of a clean, modern building and a forward-thinking building,” said architect Gary Ogrocki who worked on the project with architects Scott and Analia Dimit.

The building will have many glass features and use green products such as Oko Skin, a fibrous cement. The front of the building will follow the curve of South Edgerton Road to give a modern feel, Ogrocki said.

With the second floor open for lease, the building could also bring in further business to Brecksville. Forchione hopes to gain a medical partner to work in the same facility as Clinical Technology.

Project completion is set for next fall and will include a two-building structure of an office building and a warehouse.

"Since we are always buying into the future, we had to have this have a look to show we’re not traditional,” Forchione said. “We are looking to the future with this type of building and who we are and the tenants we want.”