Vapé Plast SA (BP 11, F-01430 St Martin du Fresne) is situated in the middle of the French "plastics valley", around Oyonnax. This medium sized company is a custom injection moulder, specialising in the manufacture and finishing of complex injection moulded technical parts. Vapé presented itself at "K '95" as an efficient plastics service company seeking to acquire new customers. The company is well equipped and already has a number of blue chip companies such as Michelin, Toshiba, Honda or the Alsthom Group as its customers.

The company's major end user markets include the electrical, pharmaceutical and medical sectors, and items such as extraction pipettes and blood analysis dishes are contract manufactured for customers. They have a wide range of injection moulding machines available with clamping force between 200 and 13,000 kN, with shot weights between 0.5 gm and 12 kg. They also have a special unit, which operates round the clock every day of the week, for the manufacture of sterilised parts under clean room conditions. Their range of services also includes post injection moulding finishing procedures, from mounting of sub assemblies to fully automatic operations, such as printing, painting and packaging. As its capital and major argument, the company is able to point to almost 50 years of continuous technical experience.

READER SERVICE: Company profile (German/French): PIE-No. 38131.