Dental Implant Firm Is Finalizing Move

A company that claims to be the world’s second-largest maker of dental implants is completing final preparations for its move to Calabasas from Camarillo.

Core-Vent Bio-Engineering hopes to have its operations up and running by mid-October at the company’s new 37,000-square-foot facility, said Dr. Gerald Niznick, a prosthodontist who owns the firm. “We’re really excited about it, to be able to design a building from the ground up to meet our needs,” he said. “It is a first-class building.”

Core-Vent is moving because it needs more space, Niznick said. Five employees at an office in Encino will also be moved to the new facility.

Niznick said that Core-Vent, which has about 110 employees, does not expect to add to its work force.

The company is hoping that most of its workers in Camarillo will transfer to the new facility, said Patricia Jacobs, the firm’s vice president of operations. Most of the workers live in Oxnard, Ventura and Camarillo.

Core-Vent makes implants for Dentsply International, a large dental products distributor.

Calabasas officials said they are happy the firm decided to relocate there.

“Core-Vent is exactly the kind of small, high-tech business that every community likes to have,” said Calabasas City Manager Charles Cate. “It’s non-polluting. It’s an ideal commercial, light industrial user.”

Cate said city officials hope that utility taxes from that operation, combined with utility taxes from the Cheesecake Factory, an expanding national restaurant and bakery chain, will help offset the $20,000 the city will lose annually in utility taxes when Lockheed Corp. moves its headquarters to Maryland after its merger with Martin Marietta Corp.

The Cheesecake Factory, which has been in Calabasas for several years, is building a new bakery near Core-Vent’s new facility, Cate said. As part of its expansion plan, the firm plans to replace an aging facility down the street on Agoura Road.