Business units

Thomas DEVELOPPEMENT

Description of the activity:

Since 1956, THOMAS DEV, a business unit of the THOMAS group manufacture Tools, and Since 2008, All the activity of Business Development activity have been gathered in one area, and under one responsibility in order to improve the Development target Cost Quality and Time line of our Customer :

THOMAS DEVELOPMENT has in charge for the whole group: The R&D, The Customer Assistance, The Request for Quotation , the Project Follow up, and the Validation of the Product and the process in the Production Business Unit

Address and contact:

Pascal Blanze
BU manager
pblanze@thomas-sa.com
ZI Nord
Avenue de Franche-Comté
BP 11
F-39261 Moirans-en-Montagne
Tél. 03 84 42 30 55
Fax 03 84 42 04 29

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All development for THOMAS Group

Know-how / equipment:

With more than 70 persons dedicated only for R&D, THOMAS DEV, is able with its project organization lead by a project leader to run different project linked with the know how of the group. THOMAS DEV has in charge the process from the RFQ to the Initial samples and Process validation.

Thomas MEDICAL

Description of the activity:

THOMAS MEDICAL (ISO 13485 and ISO 14001) is a company of the THOMAS Group, your partner since 1956 for a global solution for plastic parts.

THOMAS MEDICAL is an actor in the in the following market: Laboratory / Medical Devices / Pharmaceutical / Medico Surgical

Address and contact:

Alain Bosc
BU Manager
abosc@thomas-sa.com
ZI Nord
Avenue de Franche-Comté
BP 11
F-39261 Moirans-en-Montagne
Tél: 03 84 42 30 55
Fax 03 84 42 04 29

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Examples of PRODUCTS produced:

Examples of RAW MATERIAL used:

PEEK / PEEK IMPLANTABLE / LCP / PEI / PVDF / PP / POM / PS / PMMA / PC / PA / PE / PP / POM / PFA / FEP / SILICONE (RUBBER) / EPDM / SEBS

Thomas France Plastic : TFP

Description of the activity:

Since 1980, THOMAS France PLASTIC, a business unit of the THOMAS group, Propose to its customer a wide range of Know How in plastic injection associated with Assembly and Decoration capabilities.

Address and contact:

Stéphane Mer
BU manager
smer@thomas-sa.com
ZI Nord
Avenue de Franche-Comté
BP 11
F-39261 Moirans-en-Montagne
Tél. 03 84 42 30 55
Fax 03 84 42 04 29

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With validated partner, TFP is able to propose solutions for Painting, Laser Etching, Multi layer coating and Chroming.

Thomas Tunisia Plastic : TTP

Description of the activity:

Since 2005, THOMAS Tunisia Plastic, a business unit of the THOMAS group, propose to its customer a wide range of Know How in plastic injection Associated with Assembly and Decoration capabilities

Address and contact:

Thierry Derancourt
BU manager
tderancourt@thomas-sa.com
THOMAS TUNISIA PLASTIC
1 rue du plastique
ZI SIDI REZIG
2033 MEGRINE
TUNISIE
Tel: +216 71 425 349
Fax: +216 71 425 229

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With validated partner, TTP is able to propose solutions for Painting, Laser Etching

Thomas Romania Plastic : TRP

Description of the activity:

Since 2006 THOMAS Romania Plastic, a business unit of the THOMAS group Propose to its customer a wide range of Know How in plastic injection Associated with assembly and finition capabilities

Address and contact:

David Legonidec
BU manager
dlegonidec@thomas-sa.com
THOMAS ROMANIA Plastic
B-dul Muncii nr.2 400641
Cluj-Napoca Romania
Tel: +40 (0)364 411973
Fax: +40 (0)364 411971

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With validated partner, TRP is able to propose solutions for Painting, Laser Etching, Chroming

USILYS

Description of the activity:

Since 2000, USILYS a business Unit of THOMAS Group propose to its customer a solution for the High technological plastic part requiring Injection and Machining

Address and contact:

Alain Bosc
BU Manager
abosc@thomas-sa.com
ZI Nord
Avenue de Franche-Comté
BP 11
F-39261 Moirans-en-Montagne
Tél. 03 84 42 30 55
Fax 03 84 42 04 29

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BUSINESS PARTNER IN CHINA ALLIANCE THOMAS TONTEC

To propose a global solution for its customer : THOMAS associates with the Company TONTEC for A business Alliance in the following frame :

This alliance allow the 2 companies to beneficiate of 3 production site in Europe and 3 production site in China

TONTEC website.

Know-hows

Design / Development

You have a project : our role is to create, design and propose the solution most suited to the requirements of your specification.

Our development teams and their state-of-the-art equipment (CAD, CADM, CAM) are at your disposal to meet your requirements from the prototype part to the mass-production part.

Design Special Machine

In order to improve our service toward the customer THOMAS is able to run Special machine project for Handling, Controlling, Testing, Assembling, Machining...

Tool Manufacturing

Our dual competence as mould maker and plastics processor enable us to be more flexible and reactive during the development phases.

THOMAS SA manufactures prototype and production metallic moulds, intended for the conversion of plastics material. To meet the requirements of competitiveness and delivery times, we follow a policy of continuous investment in a stock of high-performance machines :

Plastic Injection

Our objective : to make available to you a machine stock of 76 presses with a capacity from 20 to 450 tonnes, robots and high performance peripheral equipment, and to offer suitable production facilities for you. The process of continuous improvement drives our business. We have available differentiated entities for producing your prototype parts and those intended for small, medium and mass production.

Baby Injection, IN MOLD Labelling, Gaz injection, High Speed and Multi Cavity Injection with Electrical Machine, Injection compression, Injection in Clean Room up to ISO 7B

2K injection

Dual-material injection enables THOMAS SA to offer its customers innovative solutions for combining two different materials and thus making it possible to obtain different colours, functions and feel on one and the same part, thus reducing assembly costs.

Transparent and Optic Parts

Since the business was set up, transparent parts have constituted a major know-how of the company.

Annual consumption of PMMA (Plexiglas) is 500 tonnes per annum, making THOMAS one of the major players in the conversion of transparent and optical plastic parts.

The fields of application are many : automotive, medical, laboratory, aeronautics, optics, etc. For parts with a size ranging from a few millimetres to several tens of centimetres.

The key success factors in this field are :

Precision Part

When your requirements are focussed in terms of precision, we can be a favoured partner.

Technical Raw Material

Apart from the standard materials regularly converted by the company (PE, PP, ABS, PC, PA, etc.), THOMAS SA, in partnership with certain materials manufacturers, has developed specific know-how on the conversion of technopolymers.

Insert Overmolding

To meet precise functionalities :

THOMAS SA is capable of producing insert overmouldings.

Rubber injection

THOMAS SA has developed specific know-how in liquid silicone injection.

Plastic Parts Machining

Profiting from its experience as a mould maker, THOMAS SA has developed know-how in the field of mass machining of plastic parts.

When the precision requirements of products (a few microns) exceed the plastic injection capabilities, machining can be used to complete the manufacturing cycles :

Finishing / Decorating

To bring more value to the plastic parts, different solutions to “finish” the parts can be proposed

Assembly

Different solutions of Assembly can be proposed by THOMAS

Spray Coating in clean Room ISO 7

Thomas is a Key actor in the transparent and optic plastic field since 1956 : In addition to the ability to design parts, manufacture and polish optic tools, injection transparent plastic parts, THOMAS has the ability since 2006 to do spray coating internally in a clean room ISO7,with a 6 axes robot to provide to the parts for example anti scratch and anti fog coating depending of the kind of varnish used

The process in clean room is as follow :

Packaging

Different solutions to package your part can be proposed by THOMAS

Our Development service is at your disposal to analyse the best way to package the parts to achieve the overall QCD target including the handling and use of the parts at the customer production line.

Clean Room

For the production THOMAS MEDICAL propose to its customer different clean room :

In order to provide to the customer the right answer to the necessity of cleanliness. Cleanliness that is monitored internally in the microbiological laboratory

Quality Organization / Control & Test Equipment

Our Quality organization based on a 0 PPM target, manager by a Quality Group Manager HSE, Etienne Gervraud, is organized around Quality Supplier Team, Quality Development Team, and Quality Business Unit Team.

About testing and Control : THOMAS can use the following facility :

The company:

Historical:

In 1956, Foundation of THOMAS by Mr. Robert THOMAS. At the beginning, the company was specialized in Tool making and special machine construction

In 1976, With the arrival of Patrick THOMAS in the company, investment in plastic injection, to propose to our customer a complete solution from design to production of plastic parts.

In 2000, Creation of a new company USILYS, specialized in injection, machining of very accurate parts

In 2005 : Creation of a Production Business Unit in Tunisia : TTP : THOMAS TUNISIA PLASTIC

In 2006 : Creation of a Production Business Unit in Romania : TRP : THOMAS ROMANIA PLASTIC

In 2008 : Change of organization in Business Unit, et création de THOMAS DEVELOPPEMENT

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Strategy 2010-2013:

Play the card of the stability of a family company

Stable shareholders / Stable Debt ratio / Long term strategy / Efficiency

Focus the activity on Technical Activities

Leak / Transparent / Optical / Clean room production / Accuracy / Decoration / Machining

To diversify the customer portfolio (no customer above 20%of the global turnover)

Multi national vision

Size : 40M€ Turnover / 5% Margin

Improve: « Quality + Logistic + Service » / Cost : QLSC

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