Top Clean Packaging Group, which exhibited in booth B13, has opened a new office in the Netherlands to support growth in Northern Europe. The European medical packaging provider already maintains five companies established in France and China that specialize in plastics processing, ranging from thermoforming and silicone and thermoplastic injection to recycling.
“Our presence in this area is not a coincidence,” said François Berry, president of the group, “but the result of a long work for several years already. It began with market research and regular participation in trade shows abroad, then we recruited export agent and finally we create our local branch.”
The new unit will be managed by Peter Zegers, shown in the photo, who is a trilingual specialist of subcontracting in the plastics industry for technical and medical applications.
Family-owned since 1927, Top Clean Packaging Group runs 16,000-sq-m of production area with 2500 sq-m of cleanrooms. About 80% of its 17,5 millions € (2007) turnover is achieved in medical and pharmaceutical markets.
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The five other companies in the group include:
Cartolux-Thiers, an expert in ISO 7 cleanroom thermoforming and in the manufacture of packaging and technical items for the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, such as blisters, wedges, foams, protective caps, assembly cards, surgical kit packaging, handling trays, and other technical parts.
Cartolux-Suzhou, located in China, designs and manufactures various high-tech thermoformed products, both in and out an ISO7 clean room, for the pharmaceutical, medical, and electronic sectors.
Top Clean Silicone, specialising in liquid silicon rubber (LSR) injection moulding in a cleanroom environment for the manufacture of technical parts for the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.
Top Clean Injection, offering thermoplastics injection moulding and packing in ISO 7 and ISO 8 cleanrooms, mainly for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, in raw materials ranging from PP to PEEK.
Top Recycling, specialising in plastics recycling and recovery, processing waste from the group’s subsidiaries as well as waste from many other French and foreign companies.
Top Clean Packaging Group also provides such services as bioburden tests, statistical control, full traceability, a laboratory for tests and measurements, and process qualification according to IQ/OQ/PQ rules.
Velfor Groupe, a specialist in medical and pharmaceutical packaging manufacturing, showcased its thermoforming and welding capabilities at booth C21. In terms of thermoforming, Velfor has introduced a range of boxes with hinged lids called Velbox. Standard models feature a bottom and a flat lid; thanks to modular molding capabilities, the company can also adapt designs for packaging bottles, syringes, bulbs, and other items at costs lower than those for custom tooling. HF welding renders the package tamper evident and resistant; child-resistant opening features are also possible.
Another innovation encourages a no-touch presentation of contents by means of designed-in folding features that release the device or the drug upon opening without finger contamination.
Velfor, through its Lider subsidiary company, presents its new airless flexible bags for liquid medication solutions. Bag volumes range from 100 ml to 25 liters. Flexible bags can be made from PVC, EVA, PU, or PE/Alu, and PA/PE, depending upon product and container compatibility. Spray-type pumps deliver a volume from 45 to 230 ml.
The company also offers feasibility studies, design, prototyping, process implementation, validation, printing, traceability, gamma or ethylene oxide sterilization, and logistics.
Top Clean Packaging Group, which exhibited in booth B13, has opened a new office in the Netherlands to support growth in Northern Europe. The European medical packaging provider already maintains five companies established in France and China that specialize in plastics processing, ranging from thermoforming and silicone and thermoplastic injection to recycling.
Velfor Groupe, a specialist in medical and pharmaceutical packaging manufacturing, showcased its thermoforming and welding capabilities at booth C21. In terms of thermoforming, Velfor has introduced a range of boxes with hinged lids called Velbox. Standard models feature a bottom and a flat lid; thanks to modular molding capabilities, the company can also adapt designs for packaging bottles, syringes, bulbs, and other items at costs lower than those for custom tooling. HF welding renders the package tamper evident and resistant; child-resistant opening features are also possible.