Tecres S.p.A.
Tecres was founded in Italy in 1981 by the intuition of our President Giovanni Faccioli. Specialized in acrylic resins since 1986, we offer a wide range of solutions for orthopedics, vertebral augmentation and cranioplasty. After an important experience in the world of traumatology, with the foundation of one of the main players in the sector, Giovanni Faccioli decided to create Tecres with a precise mission: to improve the lives of people all over the world. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified and hold new ones for exporting our products to over 70 countries around the world.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1981
Mission
The awareness that our products allow many people to regain their freedom and independence, is what since 1981 feeds Tecres activities, since then in constant growth.
Every day we study and develop biomaterials and medical devices in the fields of orthopedics, traumatology, vertebral consolidation and neurosurgery. The results of our research have enabled us to patent and launch a number of innovative and effective products that have built our brilliant history of success. Some of the most significant products resulting from Tecres research include:
1986 Cemex®, the first bone cement with reduced monomer content
1991 Cemex® System, the first bone cement in a closed all-in-one system
1996 Spacer®-G, the first preformed spacer for PJIs management
2001 Mendec® Cranio and Cranos, acrylic resins and custom made cranial prostheses
2002 Mendec® Spine, the resin for the consolidation of vertebral fractures
2010 Vancogenx®, the line with double antibiotic gentamicin and vancomycin
2013 Cal-Cemex®, the exclusive reinforced bone substitute unique in the world
Our extensive expertise allows us to design and manufacture custom devices for patients with particularly complex conditions, where standard products cannot be used. Our personalized intervention allows us to improve the lives of the most difficult patients, fully realizing our Mission.
Thanks to our efforts we have been able to obtain quality certifications and ministerial registrations in over 70 countries worldwide, including the entire European Union, China, the United States and Japan. Our know-how has allowed us to publish five volumes dedicated to bone cement and the treatment of infections, to conduct more than 250 studies in collaboration with research institutes, and to produce more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
A fundamental turning point in our history occurred in 2016, when Tecres became part of the Demetra Group, contributing to the establishment of the world's largest independent manufacturer of acrylic resins for the medical sector, with direct presence in Italy, USA, Germany and China.
Today, our products contribute to improving the living conditions of more than 2 million people every year. Knowing that so many people rely on a Tecres product drives us in our constant commitment to improvement, aware of the social importance of our products. That's why every day we work inspired by our Corporate Values:
Sense of Belonging
Passion
Respect
Balance
Willingness to Change
Our Values derive directly from our Mission and guide the commitment and efforts of the group's more than 200 employees. They keep our identity, preserving it from the inevitable changes that we experience every day.
Our Values keep our feet firmly planted on the ground but raise our gaze, looking to the future with enthusiasm, towards new challenges that will allow us to make people's lives even better.
The five Values ??of Tecres
SENSE OF BELONGING
We proudly bring the best of our work into the world, realized with dedication and responsibility, thanks to the union of the skills and energy of all Tecres men and women.
We are Tecres, with our values and our daily commitment. In order to let Tecres be alive, grow and develop over time, it is necessary that every person within the organization feel Tecres as its own, rejoice in successes and feel responsible in facing big and small daily challenges. The Sense of Belonging is the Value that reminds us that we are all called to a commitment that goes beyond the fulfillment of a role, of a task: what makes the difference is to recognize oneself as part of a community that is passionate and responsible, determined, ready to change and evolve, always respecting its fundamental values. To say all this, to remind us the wonderful community that we are, we have dressed the symbolic figure of a man-sky with profiles of men and women. Tecres men and women: many different identities, united around our logo, moving into the future.
PASSION
We put all our energy into acting with joy, enthusiasm and tenacity for our goals. It is never being tired and never be satisfied. It is lifting our sight to see, beyond.
'Passion' is an important and challenging word, because abstract and loaded of shades of meaning at the same time. When we talk about Passion we refer to the importance that the result of our work has in the lives of doctors and patients. To translate this idea of Passion into an illustration, we started from the fire and the heart, without however representing either of them, so as not to be too didactic and not to risk confusing our concept of passion with other meanings. The projection of our Passion is expressed from the movement of abstract elements that from the height of the heart travel outwards and vice versa. A solution that is inspired by the futurist aesthetic and expresses a feeling of strong movement; features that are balanced by the blue sky also contained in the anthropomorphic figure. Our Passion for improving people's lives through our products, is serene and determined.
RESPECT
We act attentive to people and their ideas, attentive to relationships, to our own and others' roles and commitments; attentive to things, rules and corporate choices.
Tecres' everyday life and organizational capacity live on challenges and goals. We are constantly called to face changes in the market, our competitors and a world in constant dynamism. This gives us energy, and pushes us to be determined. Yet, we know how important it is to interpret our natural inclination to aim high with Respect, which is fundamental for others and for ourselves. Respect that becomes even more important if we think about our Mission, and the centrality of improving people's lives. To represent our idea of Respect, we used the metaphor of the man-sky who, while engaged in his work, knows how to pay attention to a small form of life: a sprout, which can grow and become a tree thanks to the decision not to consider it an obstacle to his project but an element that has value in itself. In this gesture we find a lightness and serenity that take nothing away from the final result but, on the contrary, enrich it.
BALANCE
We search with optimism and concreteness, enthusiasm and common sense, solutions to the needs of those who, from the inside and the outside, live the Tecres world.
Life and work are movement. Our work, which constantly and deeply has to do with improving people's living conditions, requires great balance. In the representation that we wanted to give, the man-sky is in Balance and at the same time creates Balance, playing with the shapes that we also find in the illustration dedicated to the Passion: a coherence between who we are, what we do and how we do it which for us is fundamental. We asked an artist to tell our work through illustrations not only for the strength with which they emerge through this expressive form, but also because we learn from art (and we are in turn 'artists') when we commit ourselves to balance all the internal and external forces that characterize our life and our work.
WILLINGNESS TO CHANGE
We are open to take up and research the challenges that the world offers us, to find innovative solutions and continuously improve the organization and products.
The man-sky is the element that gives narrative and visual continuity to the illustrations that represent our five fundamental Values. In this project, he plays the role of symbol of Tecres men and women: of all of us. To express the value of the Willingness to Change, we used the metaphor of crossing a threshold: a movement that is first of all internal - it is a disposition, a mental attitude - but with immediate visible manifestations. The color code inside our man-sky, from red to blue, serves to tell this inner dynamic at a glance. The smile with which the man-sky faces change reminds us of the serenity with which we want to live, day after day, the challenges and the unexpected, the path of constant transformation and sharing that leads us to achieve our goals.
Research & Development
This is the essence of the partnerships we’ve established with prestigious Italian and international hospital centres and universities, an approach that has helped us provide the market with a large number of pioneering products. As part of our ceaseless commitment we have published five specific volumes dealing with bone cement and the treatment of infections, conducted over 250 studies in collaboration with research institutes, conducted more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, and authored more than 1800 technical reports.
New product development entails various stages, starting life as a concept, an intuition or a specific requirement from the market. Indeed we often drawn the expertise of specialist sectors surgeons with whom we develop valuable working relationship.
The pulsing heart of Tecres is our R&D laboratory where highly qualified professionals take up new challenges and devise strategies aimed at launching important new projects. The technical department then take those results and transform them into tangible solutions to uphold the company’s position as a pioneer.
Throughout the manufacturing process specialized and skilled staff conduct continuous monitoring and testing activities to make sure that our products are effective and safe. In-process controls embrace all operative stages from clearance of incoming raw materials through to release of finished products. Day after day the company’s quality system ensures the adequacy of our operating procedures and the constant improvement of our management system. The 3000 square meters production department is fitted with cutting edge plant and automated lines with a production capacity of thousands of devices a day.
The entire production area is microbiologically controlled. Each manufacturing process is performed in a dedicated area where temperature, humidity and pressure are monitored by a modern, centrally controlled system, so that the environment is free of impurities and perfectly suited to our production requirements.
Products are packaged on modern production lines. Specific regulations ensure that all our products have appropriate storage during shipment, keeping them in perfect working order by maintaining their chemical and physical qualities and mechanical performance over time. Well trained conscientious staff check each and every product contributing to the production of devices suitable for use in the human body which consequently call for extremely meticulous attention.