Key facts

Brief history

The company was founded in 1973 by Mr Smeets as a family-owned company at Deurne Belgium, and has from the beginning focused on the production of pharmaceutical powders.
Extension of the production area in 1987
In 2004, the company was bought by private investors, the name “Laboratoria Smeets” was kept.
Due to a strong growth in demand, a new site (Neerland site) was built in 2004, focussing on the mixing activities of powders and liquids. Our state of the art laboratory is also located at this site
In 2014 a third site was custom build for one customer.

About us

LABORATORIA SMEETS N.V.

Fotografielaan 42
B-2610 Antwerpen-Wilrijk
Tel. +32 (0)3 828 29 37
Fax +32 (0)3 830 21 36
e-mail: info@labosmeets.be

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CASE: Process Installation
Open communication crucial in reassembly and automation of process installation for Laboratoria Smeets Large scale projects don’t always have to exceed the deadline, the budget and the stress limitations of the people involved. No, there is another way. Egemin Automation and Laboratoria Smeets proved it in their joint project to build a new production ...

New Technology for API solubility
In collaboration with the University of Ghent, Labo Smeets has realised a new process in pharmaceutical extrusion technology, which enables us to make granules. The main application is to make pharmaceutical granule compositions to drastically improve water solubility of active ingredients. This equipment is installed and available since January 2011.

CASE: Packaging excellence
A potential customer had set up an organization to import pharmaceutical products from lower priced markets into higher priced markets. As we have a lot of experience in setting up flexible packaging lines, we showed an interest in order to supply the relabeling and .repackaging of this product. A nice coincidence was that a particular company, which as active ...

CASE: Strategic procurement
One of our pharmacuetical customers is a large consumer of raw materials. Often large pharmaceutical customers are constrained with their raw materials procurement strategies. The complexity of the regulatory filing for many of their products, prevents them from obtaining the best deal. Underlying causes are the intrinsic speed of action, but also the ...

CASE: International
A potential customer outside the European Union contacted Laboratoria Smeets. He had obtained, sooner than expected, a registration for his powder product and was desperately seeking to be on the market as soon as possible. We immediately shared his sense of urgency. Just one day after the initial contact, we offered a full service proposal to buy the ...