Braham Henda, the director of the Stérimed factory in Amélie-les-Bains, immediately recognizes this: ” We are what can be called the big winners of the health crisis. Economically, it’s hard to say the opposite. We started by making our own masks, then we made paper to steam sterilize a lot of masks because in some countries, it is allowed. Then came the wave of tests: we made the papers to wrap the swabs and then, with the arrival of the vaccines, to wrap the syringes. Our order book has never been empty. ”
Today Stérimed also produces sterile packaging for conventional surgical operations in the hospital. “We are going from record to record for production on our site“, rejoices Braham Henda. The turnover reached 90 million euros for the Vallespir plant. ten people were hired there these last months.