Starplex Scientific

Starplex Scientific is a North American manufacturer of specimen collection and transport products, microbial and viral collection media devices, and pharmaceutical/nutraceutical plastic bottles and closures. The company serves healthcare, clinical laboratory, in vitro diagnostic, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, veterinary, and industrial testing markets through a portfolio of branded consumables including specimen containers, swabs, transport media, and packaging components. Starplex operates manufacturing facilities in Etobicoke, Ontario; Saint-Laurent, Quebec; and Cleveland, Tennessee, with capabilities spanning injection, injection blow, and extrusion molding, media production, labeling, packaging, and warehousing. The Starplex business was acquired by Pretium Packaging from Apotex in August 2019, and the brand has continued to operate within Pretium's healthcare and consumer health portfolio. The company is best characterized as a commercial-stage medical consumables and healthcare packaging business rather than a therapeutics developer.