Thermoforming company continues to support ‘essential business’ activity during pandemic

TEQ is able to continue the delivery of a range of medical packaging solutions for its customers.

TEQ, which was recently acquired by Sonoco, has rebranded its business having previously been known as Plastique across Europe, and TEQ Thermoform Engineered Quality more widely.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the company’s medtech customers were given ‘essential business’ status and have been playing a key role in responding to the crisis. 

As a result, production is in full flow for the company, and TEQ is able to provide a short supply chain, with all packaging products coming from its cleanrooms based in both the UK - at Hucknall Industrial Park, near Nottingham - and Poznan in Poland. TEQ’s facilities in both locations are certified to ISO 13485: 2016, and both sites meet medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers’ rigorous packaging requirements. In addition to its two sites in Europe, TEQ operates three thermoforming facilities as well as one extrusion operation in the United States. The company also produces recyclable, moulded-pulp-fibre packaging under the Fibrepak brand.

The packaging range includes procedure sets, trays, tubs, lids and sterile barrier blisters and seal blisters, and the organisation manufactures custom thermoformed handling trays, including dry powder inhalers, auto-injectors, injection-moulded components, pre-filled syringes and pharmaceutical bottles.

Anne-Sophie Belamine, European sales director, TEQ, commented: “We’re proud to have been playing a key role in making sure essential medical products reach the market in these uncertain times.

“Our production facilities in the UK and Europe have been working around the clock to ensure we support our customers close to home - many of which are manufacturing life-saving medical supplies and technologies - as we have responded to this global pandemic.”