NPDL to expand, add 283 hires

Natural Prosthetic Dental Lab Inc., a Bradenton-based dental prosthetic manufacturer, will close its overseas manufacturing operations, and add roughly 283 jobs to the local economy thanks to recent technological advances.

NPDL has been working with Minnesota-based tech giant 3M to reduce its manufacturing costs, and can now afford to bring production jobs back to the United States, a release said.

“The only way to compete with overseas cheap labor is with technology,” said Eric Grimes, president at NPDL. “Within the decade, digital dentistry will be the standard. We want to lead that wave and grab market share.”