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Manufacturing Expertise
Bandages and tapes.
With tradition and passion.
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«Grüezi» and Welcome Transforming cotton yarn and other finest raw materi-als into a high-quality medical textile fascinates me time and again. I welcome you to gain insights into our company, the various production steps and our core manufacturing competences. Since 1932 Wernli AG stands for elastic bandages in Swiss quality. It is this great tradition and passion of our qualified employees – some of them with decades of experience – that make Wernli AG unique! Swiss quality is a promise from all of us: we constantly strive for perfection to provide premium products and individual services that excel the expectations of patients, health care professionals and distribution partners.
Felix SchönleCEO
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Wero Holding AG
Bandages and tapes. Swiss quality since 1932.
Wernli AG is part of the Wero Holding AG, a family- owned group of companies specialised in the field of medical and technical textiles, based in Rothrist, Switzerland.
We develop, design and manufacture a comprehensive range of elastic bandages and tapes for all your needs in medical healthcare, sports, retail and veterinary.
Wernli AG at a Glance Wero Swiss Americas, Inc. has started its business activities in October 2015 and is located in Jupiter, Florida, USA. The subsidiary of Wero Holding AG fo-cuses on sales and marketing activi-ties in North and Latin America.
Wero Swiss Med Kft. was founded in 2017. The manufacturing plant is situated in the centre of a tradition-al European medical textile indus-try in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary.
Our headquarter, Wernli AG Bandages, is located in the heart of Europe, more precisely in Roth-rist, Switzerland. Most of the Wero group’s product research, development, manufacturing, distribution and administrative activities are lo-cated in Rothrist. From this geographically ideal location we distribute our products around the world.
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Company History
Foundation of Wernli AG: 1932
A story is told of Henry Dunant, the founder of the In-ternational Red Cross, that he first cut up his own shirt in order to bandage a wounded man. Since this selfless deed, the development of dressing materials has made huge strides, thanks in part to the efforts of Wernli AG. Jakob Wernli founded the company in 1932, when he started to produce the first bandages in his living room.
Successful product development: 1970s
Wernli AG reached a major milestone with the launch-ing of its coloured bandages in the 70s. These band-ages were first presented at a medical trade fair in Zurich and are now used across the world. Since then Wernli AG has innovated and developed its product range very successfully. Besides the coloured dress-ings, Wernli AG is also known for its cohesive and ad-hesive bandages. Together with the compression dressings these are the main product groups.
Company History Change of ownership: 2009
Felix Schönle took over Wernli AG in 2009 after the company has been managed by the third generation of the Wernli Family. Our new CEO further expanded Wernli AG’s business activities across the world. Since 2010 products are not only sold as private label but also under the brand name Wero Swiss®.
Corporate group expansion: since 2014
In 2014 the corporate group was restructured. Wernli AG was renamed Wero Holding AG and simultaneously production of bandages was moved to Wernli AG, Bandages. In 2015 a new subsidiary, Wero Swiss Amer-icas Inc., has been founded in Florida and is now re-sponsible for the product distribution in North and Latin America. Furthermore, in 2017 a production plant has been opened in Hungary under the name of Wero Swiss Med Kft.
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Textile CompetenceTextile Competence The textile know-how of Wernli AG is based on our qualified employees with many years of experience in processing high-quality yarn such as cotton, polyamide, polyurethane, viscose and other finest raw materials.
Our research team develops innovative products for unmet clinical demands and individual customer requirements. Cooperation with universities and research institutes brings brilliant ideas to great pro-ducts.
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Manufacturing ExpertiseManufacturing Expertise Warping
Only the finest natural yarns and best synthetic fibres result in a high-quality medical textile. We only pro-cess raw material from certified suppliers in Europe.
Thanks to universally usable warping systems, we can process the most diverse yarns. Customised produc-tion systems developed in-house are used to warp pure cotton products.
Single threads on up to 486 spools are processed to warping beams.
Weaving
The weaving department is the heart of the textile production. The production facility consists of looms for textile elastic bandages, bandages with rubber threads and for rigid technical bandages.
Fibre monitors automatically stop the weaving machine when a thread tears. Our long-term employees have a high level of material and technical expertise. Their accuracy, daily dedication and excellent manual skills are key to operate the looms and create a premium quality product.
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Finishing
That is where textiles turn into precious medical prod-ucts. In compliance with the highest hygiene stand-ards, the semi-finished products are shrunk under steam, then heat dried, washed and bleached if re-quired, to achieve the desired elasticity.
Cohesive bandages are coated with natural latex or with a latex free adhesive. Adhesive bandages are pro-duced in three versions of adhesive strength.
The versatile manufacturing facilities guarantee a flexible, cost-effective production of small to large scale series and allow us to provide customised fini-shing options.
Packing
Final touches are made in the packing department. Whether it is cellophane wrapping, self-made medical clips, imprints, special labelling or shrinking according to sales units: we provide customised packing solutions! Our offering even includes mixed colour assortments. Despite modern machinery, a great deal of work is still made by hand. This includes the manual final inspection and quality control.
The full range of our bandages and tapes is also available in single or double sterile packing. The powerful ther-moforming machine works with heat and vacuum, accommodates almost all bandage sizes and allows for customer specific labelling. The actual sterilisation process is outsourced.
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Facts and FiguresFacts and Figures
10 Mio
60‘000 km
yarn processed annually
hours a dayIn our production plant, all machines run 2-3 shifts.
bandages processed annually
400 t
bandages are shipped from our production plant in Rothrist every year
16-24h
75 employees
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Innovative ProductsInnovative Products Coloured bandages
Wernli AG is famous for the most comprehensive range of coloured bandages. The attractive spectrum of trendy colours is particularly used in paediatrics, sports and retail. The colourfast bandages remain bright and brilliant even after washing.
Cohesive bandages
Cohesive bandages stick only to itself but not to the skin, hair or clothes. Their anti-slip properties make the bandage very economic in use and ideal for dress-ings on contoured and often moved body parts.
Adhesive bandages
Physiotherapists just love our coloured adhesive band-ages for treating sports injuries with support and func-tional dressings. Lymphologists appreciate the reliable and long-lasting adhesive force needed in permanent compression therapy.
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Innovative ProductsInnovative Products
Compression bandages
The prevalence rate of vein problems like chronic ve-nous insufficiency, varicose or thrombophlebitis are ever increasing. Good to know that Wernli AG has the optimal compression bandage for all patient condi-tions: from our flagship, the «LAN» short stretch bandage with a high working pressure, to different long-stretch bandages that are mainly used for bed-ridden patients. For every treatment we have a suita-ble compression bandage.
Sports products
Wernli AG is proud of the industry first Co-Tape. This innovation revolutionises the way of taping.
The bi-elastic tape can be stretched by 350%. While it protects and stabilises fingers, toes and small joints against sprains, strains and dislocations, it still allows the joints the full range of motion. Just perfect for goalkeepers and field players in all ball games, for climbing and martial arts.
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International Markets
Existing market
International Markets
Expansion market
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International Markets
Health care professionals, patients and distribution partners around the world trust on elastic bandages and tapes from Wernli AG. A truly global footprint! Long-term part-nerships and customer proximity are the basis of our international presence. In the European key mar-kets we have a particularly solid market position.
International trade fairs, such as Medica in Düsseldorf, FIME in Miami and Arab Health in Dubai help us to fur-ther expand our international presence.
Personal Service Apart from premium quality products, we also strive to provide outstanding customer services. The cooperation with all our business partners is based on fairness and ethical principles. At Wernli AG, customer proximity goes far beyond a geographic concept: we know our customers personally, understand their business requirements, speak their language and use our cross cultural understanding to build a long-term valuable partnership.
Felix Schö[email protected]
André Göttmann Head of [email protected]
André SägesserHead of [email protected]
Christa ZimmerliSales [email protected]
Teija LundgrenAgent [email protected]
Jacques ChanozVP Wero Swiss [email protected]
Fabiane Rutkowski Sales [email protected]
Annemarie Zimmerli Sales [email protected]
Chantal MüllerSales [email protected]
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Private Label We specialise in contract manufacturing and offer comprehensive solutions for private label partners. Our services start with the evaluation of the perfect product mix. We produce and store customised pack-aging material and labels with the customer’s brand name. Individual finishing options such as self-made clips, imprint, cellophane wrapping, mixed colours as-sortment and even sterile packing are available.
Our private label partners appreciate the low minimum order quantities, tailor-made solutions, attractive terms and conditions as well as reliable delivery times.
WERO Swiss® The full range of products is also available under the renowned brand name Wero Swiss®. The high quality packaging material comes in an attractive design: colour-coded single boxes for pharmacies, retail and similar sales channels as well as classical hospital boxes.
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Copyright 2018Publisher: Wernli AG, Verbandstoffe - BandagesEggasse 4, CH-4852 Rothrist, Switzerland
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MitarbeiterContact Details Headquarter Wernli AG Verbandstoffe – Bandages Eggasse 4, P.O. Box 49 4852 Rothrist Switzerland
Phone +41 62 785 60 00 Fax +41 62 794 42 52
Scandinavian Agent AB Medifa / WernliNorrbergsvändan 12139 54 VärmdoSweden
Phone +46(0) 70 305 37 35
Wero Swiss Med Kft.Külsö-Hadhazi út 12-144220 HajdúböszörményHungary
Phone +36 20 99 55 009
[email protected] www.weroswiss.com
Wero Swiss Americas Inc.4300 S. US Highway 1, 203 - 223Jupiter, Florida, 33477USA
Phone +1 (305) 335 1234
[email protected] www.weroswiss.com
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Verbandstoffe – BandagesEggasse 4, P.O. Box 494852 RothristSwitzerland
Phone +41 62 785 60 00Fax +41 62 794 42 52
Bandages and tapes.
Swiss quality since 1932.
