HI-TECH POLYMER SOLUTIONS The Nolato Group is a global leader in moulded polymer components and product systems designed for pharmaceutical, telecommunications and industrial applications. Philip Yorke talked to Christers Wahlquist, the president of Nolato Medical and a member of the group management, about its latest products and plans for further expansion.
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olato Medical is part of the Nolato Group which is a global, high-tech developer and manufacturer of polymer components and products systems for the pharmaceutical, telecoms and industrial products sectors. Nolato was founded in Sweden in 1938 as Nordiska Latexfabrieken i Torekov AB with the trademark ‘Nolato’, which has since 1982 been the company’s trading name. Today Nolato is a global group with its head office based in Torekov (Sweden) and with production facilities in Sweden, China, Hungary, Romania, the UK the USA and India. The company also has sales offices in France, Norway, Germany, Taiwan and the Czech Republic. Today Nolato employs around 5,500 people of which around 85 per cent work outside Sweden. The majority of Nolato’s customers are large, global companies that work within 196 Industry Europe
areas such as medical technology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, white goods, automotive, construction and forestry. The Nolato Group is quoted on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic market stock exchange.
Developing customer- specific systems and components As a major contributor to the Nolato Group, Nolato Medical is a fast growing company that specialises in the development and manufacture of injection moulded polymer components and systems for the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. The company works in close collaboration with its customers and has over fifty years of experience in delivering advanced medical technology systems and devices. This in turn has given Nolato Medical a firm founda-
tion based on cutting-edge technology and product development expertise. Wahlquist said, “We work in close partnership together with our clients to deliver new technologies and systems and therefore are able to provide optimal solutions. We do the development and manufacturing in-house, which means that we can be not only innovative, but can guarantee consistent quality in all that we accomplish. “We operate three key divisions, the Medical division, the Telecom division and the Industrial division. In the industrial sector our focus is on the automotive industry, as well as white goods, hygiene, construction and forestry etc., whereas in the telecommunications division we bring more than 20 years experience to bear as a leading developer and manufacturer of mechanical modules
