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SGD Pharma (Lam Industries)
French pharmaceutical glass packaging company; subsidiary of Lam Industries (a French private equity-backed industrial group) following acquisition from Pochet Group (2017). SGD Pharma is a major European pharmaceutical glass vial and ampoule converter with primary operations in Sucy-en-Brie (France), Zell (Germany), and plants in Brazil and India. SGD Pharma focuses on Type I and Type II borosilicate glass containers including vials, ampoules, and bottles for parenteral drugs. After multiple ownership changes (formerly Saint-Gobain Desjonquères), SGD Pharma is one of Europe's top-3 independent pharmaceutical glass vial manufacturers and a significant supplier to European generics pharmaceutical companies.
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Injectable Vials & Ampoules
65%Glass Bottles (Oral & Topical)
25%Specialty Pharmaceutical Glass
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Did you know2024
SGD Pharma's Bresle Valley glass-making infrastructure exists alongside Pochet du Courval — the luxury perfume and cosmetics glass bottle maker still operating in the same Norman French valley. The same specialized glass-melting, forming, and quality control expertise in the Bresle Valley that produces pharmaceutical-grade injectable vials (Type I borosilicate, endotoxin-tested) also produces the highest-quality luxury perfume bottles for Chanel N°5 and Dior J'adore. The pharmaceutical drug packaging supply chain and the luxury cosmetics packaging supply chain share the same geographic concentration of glass expertise, labor skills, and specialty raw materials — a French "glass valley" concentration that is a strategic dependency for both European pharmaceutical distribution and global luxury goods brands.
Pochet Group ↗Origin2023
SGD Pharma's pharmaceutical glass heritage traces to the Pochet Group — a French family glass company with roots dating to 1623 in the Bresle Valley (Normandy), which is the "glass valley" of France and the world's center of luxury perfume bottle manufacturing. Pochet served both pharmaceutical glass (SGD Pharma subsidiary) and luxury cosmetics glass (Pochet du Courval — perfume bottles for Chanel, Dior, Lancôme) from the same French glass heritage. SGD Pharma was divested to Lam Industries in 2017, separating the pharmaceutical injectable vials from the luxury perfume packaging — but both trace to the same 400-year glass-making tradition in the Bresle Valley.
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