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Winter closing 2024

We would like to inform our esteemed clientele that our production will be closed for our winter break from December 23rd 2024 until January 3rd 2025. Our commercial department will stay at your disposal for any enquiry or questions. We wish you already our warmest season's greetings.

Summer Closing 2024

Please note that our production will be closed during our yearly summer break from July 15 until August 2nd. Our offices remain open during this period and we stay at your disposal for any enquiry or demand. We wish you already to have a great summer.

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Winter closing 2023

We would like to inform our esteemed clientele that our production will be closed for our winter break from December 25th 2023 until January 2nd 2024. Our commercial department will stay at your disposal for any enquiry or questions. We wish you already our warmest season's greetings.

Summer Closing 2023

Please note that our production will be closed during our yearly summer break from July 17th until August 4th. Our offices remain open during this period and we stay at your disposal for any enquiry or demand. We wish you already to have a great summer.

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Winter closing 2022

We would like to inform our esteemed clientele that our production will be closed for our winter break from December 26 2022 until January 2nd 2023. Our commercial department will stay at your disposal for any enquiry or questions. We wish you already our warmest season's greetings.

Facility Relocation

We are pleased to inform you that as of September 1st, 2022 we will have the chance to welcome you in a brand new production site equipped with the most modern technologies.

This new production site will be located only 3 km away from the current location, at the following address :

UNIMED S.A., Av. du Tir-Fédéral 56, 1024 Ecublens, Switzerland

Winter closing 2021

We would like to inform our esteemed clientele that our production will be closed for our winter break from December 24 2021 until January 3rd 2022. Our commercial department will stay at your disposal for any enquiry or questions. We wish you already our warmest season's greetings.

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Summer Closing

Please note that our production will be closed during our yearly summer break from July 9 until August 16th. Our offices remain open during this period and we stay at your disposal for any enquiry or demand. We wish you already to have a great summer.

Winter closing 2020

We would like to inform our esteemed clientele that our production will be closed for our winter break from December 24 2020 until January 4th 2021. Our commercial department will stay at your disposal for any enquiry or questions. We wish you already our warmest season's greetings. 

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End of CE Marking on Unimed Articles

Dear clients,

In 1980, Unimed started a subcontracting activity in parallel to its main activity as a manufacturer of needles and medical devices.

Over the past 40 years, we have seen the growth and increasing proportion of our subcontracting activity overtake and then largely supplant our activity as a medical device manufacturer. More recently, this manufacturing activity has become marginal as a proportion of our subcontracting activity, and by 2020 it accounts for only a small portion of our business.

At the same time, we have also seen over the past 40 years that the regulatory requirements to obtain CE marking on medical devices in order to sell products on the market as a manufacturer have become increasingly administrative and disconnected from all forms of pragmatism and this without enhancing product quality or safety for patients and users, which was and should have remained the primary goal of regulation.

In the years to come, several new heavy regulations will further burden the regulatory system. New medical device regulations soberly entitled MDR/IVDR will supersede MDD 93/42/EEC following an initial deferral to 2021, and the unique device identification (UDI) imposes many other requirements to be met.

In order to focus as much as possible on the subcontracting service offered to our manufacturing customers, Unimed has taken the heavy decision to stop obtaining the CE mark on its own products intended for human medicine and to become a company acting exclusively as subcontractor, which we had become de facto in 40 years of reconversion. This will allow us to reduce our regulatory burden and allocate our quality assurance team to serve our manufacturing customers, rather than defending our own products.

This change will come into effect on 31.10.2020 and from this date no Unimed articles will be supplied with CE mark.

Our commercial department stays at your disposal to explain to you the concrete implications on the standard "Unimed" products for human medicine that you used to order and what solutions are available to you.