Serving the drug industry Fedegari

SERVING THE

DRUG INDUSTRY

The successful journey of the Fedegari family started in 1953 when two brothers, Giampiero and Fortunato, set up a company specialised in the production of sterilisers for the pharmaceutical industry in Pavia, northern Italy.

Sixty years later, the Fedegari family is still heading the company. “My father and his brother manufactured sterilisers for hospitals, labs and the pharmaceutical industry. Throughout the years, our main area of expertise has become the pharmaceutical industry. Today, it is our main sector for which we manufacture moist-heat sterilisers,” said Mr Giuseppe Fedegari, vicepresident of the company.

Geographical presence and markets

Today, the company is structured into two production sites: one in Switzerland and one in Italy. Fedegari (SUISSE) SA was established in Lugano (Switzerland) in the early 1980s and moved to the current site in Bedano in 2001, on an area of 3500m2 . These two production sites serve different markets. “In Switzerland, we specialise in standard production runs, such as sterilisers destined for labs. These products are characterised by the modularity of their design. However, here too Fedegari has focused on the specialisation of the machine. Each steriliser is configured so that it can offer maximum performance, because each user, in order to compete successfully, cannot be satisfied with standardised solutions. In our Italian site all the most critical functions are carried out, such as engineering, R&D activities and automation,” explained Mr Fedegari.

In 2007 the company started on a process of internationalisation by setting up branches abroad. Fedegari Technologies, Inc. was established in 2007 in Dublin, Pennsylvania, as the US branch of Fedegari Autoclavi SpA. It is a purely commercial company which deals with the promotion and sale of Fedegari products, providing all the services needed for the installation, qualification, validation and after-sales maintenance of these products. Fedegari Asia was established in 2008 in Singapore in order to enhance Fedegari’s position in the Asian markets. “Thanks to our branches in the USA, Singapore and Germany we can provide greater attention to our customers all over the world by offering on-site maintenance, spare parts and specialised personnel who speak the local language,” added the vice-president of Fedegari.

Fedegari exports its products all over the world, in particular, wherever the investment in the pharmaceutical industry is blooming: China, India, Indonesia and Asia in general. After Asia, there is Europe and the USA.

Recent investments and R&D

“The company is growing and we are constantly investing to improve the infrastructure. We are building a new site where all

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INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING

F.I.M DAVID Srl is one of the sector’s companies with the longest history, having been established in 1969, when the industrialisation process was increasingly focused on machinery export and industrial plants. Packaging is therefore the traditional sector of our company and has evolved over the years, developing more and more a range of services which allow clients to send with the maximum safety any item or machinery, according to the type of goods, the different types of transport used and the final destinations.

INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING F.I.M DAVID designs and manufactures industrial packaging, BOXES-CAGES-PLATFORMS, with no dimensional limits, for sea, land and air transport, in compliance with different current sector legislation or according to specific customer’s instructions.

DANGEROUS GOODS We carry out dangerous goods packaging at our warehouse, for air, sea and land transport.

Goods’ reception, subdivision, classification and packaging according to IATA, INDG, ADR requirements, in UN approved crates or boxes, as well as labelling and package marking.

Shipper’s declaration and Multimodal compilation.

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engineering activities and personnel will be moved. The machinery we build to specification is growing in size and getting more complex and this requires space,” explained Mr Fedegari. “Moreover, we are working on new products and new technologies connected to the sterilisation process. Therefore, we are investing in the development of these areas and in increasing our production in Italy.”

An area of over 2000m2 accommodates the R&D division: this is where the products of the future are designed, new evolutionary frontiers are explored and tomorrow’s technologies are anticipated.

“First of all, the R&D division plays a critical role in establishing a business relationship with the customers, particularly at the initial stage. Its role is to verify how the new machines or the drug itself needs to be processed. All of this has a deep impact on the process; the tests carried out by our R&D division during this stage serve the purpose of identifying the characteristics that the machine and the process need to have so that we can provide a tailored service to our customer,” said Mr Fedegari. “After this stage, the same operations can be carried out for those customers who need to process new products or change the packaging. We can carry out experiments on the process thanks to our advanced technology.”

The R&D division is also crucial to internal operations, such as testing machine components and process controllers software.

Future goals

One of the company’s major goals is to expand in new countries through sales and also strengthen its presence on the spot by being able to provide services that are close to its customers. Moreover, they are trying to move into the food industry market. This last uses sterilisation processes that are similar to those used in the pharmaceutical industry but using a much simpler technology in terms of machinery. n