CRANBERRY TWP — Medical technology company Aesynt is poised to possibly bring jobs to its manufacturing facility in the Thorn Hill Industrial Park within the next year.

Laura Miller, manager of employee communications for the company, said Aesynt bought an Italian medical production firm in 2014 and is transferring some of the manufacturing of IV automation devices to its Thorn Hill location.

“We will maintain the manufacturing in Italy,” Miller said. “We anticipate adding jobs primarily in manufacturing and service here in Pittsburgh. We don’t have a number (of jobs being added). It depends on how successful the product is.”

Aesynt primarily specializes in medication management, pharmacy automation and information management tools for health care industries.

The company has two facilities in the Cranberry area: the manufacturing facility in Thorn Hill that employs 150 workers and the firm’s headquarters in the Cranberry Woods office park where about 350 employees work.

Miller said that the new jobs will involve producing automated IV devices that mix certain drugs via machine instead of being done by human pharmacy workers.

“It’s primarily for chemotherapy drugs,” Miller said. “(Mixing various drugs) is a very difficult task for a human to perform. There’s always the possibility for error.”

The mixing of the various drugs by machine is “more accurate for the patient and safer for the pharmacists,” Miller said.

The company had record growth during the fiscal year ending on March 31, including an 8 percent growth totaling $175 million.

Miller said the company has roughly 300 employees involved in sales and service across the United States and about 60 workers in Italy.

The company originated in 1987 as Automated Healthcare. In 1998, it was acquired by McKesson and then in November 2013, the firm was bought by a California-based equity firm and renamed Aesynt.