Our History

For over 45 years, Telstar has proven its commitment to the quality of its products, to scientific innovation and to excellence in customer service.

Throughout its history, Telstar has developed products and services in line with the needs and expectations of its customers in its chosen business sectors

Since being established in 1963, Telstar has continuously evolved and transformed according to the needs and expectations of its expanding customers base. Today, Telstar is a solid, powerful international business group offering added value and solutions tailored to the technological needs of sectors as varied as Industry, Scientific Research and Development and Life and Health Sciences.

1963 - Ramón Capella founded Telstar, for the production of vacuum pumps. It was thought that ‘Telstar', a recently launched space satellite at that time, was a good name for a company intent on seeking new advancements.

1964 - Telstar started designing and manufacturing freeze drying equipment and other vacuum systems.

1971 - Creation of the Clean Air Division to manufacture  laminar flow modules and cabinets. Later, the division was expanded by incorporating a function specialized in the development of clean rooms.

1980 - A new division was incorporated to commercialize high technology equipment. Mainly in the vacuum field, representing leading international technology companies.

1992 - Creation of the export department, increasing the company's commitment to export activities.

1998 - Telstar decided to give some business activities their own identity (up until that time all businesses were part of Telstar, S.A.)  Accordingly, Telstar S.A., became a business group with major potential:

• The foundation of Telstar Industrial, S.L., to accommodate most of the Telstar S.A. business lines.

• Establishment of Telstar Projects, S.A., a company dedicated to turnkey projects for the pharmaceutical industry, especially clean rooms and processing facilities; the result of the separation of the business unit that produced clean rooms and its merger with the recently acquired IF (Ingeniería Farmacéutica, S.L.)

• Creation of Telstar Instrumat, S.L. following the acquisition of Instrumat Técnicas de Medicición, S.A., which was later merged with the division of Telstar S.A. responsible for commercialization of instrumentation

1999 - Telstar USA, Inc. was founded with headquarters in Philadelphia (USA) to promote the pharmaceutical product lines of Telstar Industrial in the United States.

2000 - Telstar International, Ltd. was founded with headquarters in Hong Kong (China) to promote Telstar Projects and Telstar Industrial product lines in China and Hong Kong.

2001 - Telstar Projects S.A opened its own offices in Beijing (China): Telstar Projects Co, Ltd.

2002 - Celester Technologies, S.L. was created for the design, manufacture and commercialization of sterilization equipment, following the merger of the Telstar Industrial sterilization division with Techifarma.

2003 - Telstar Tecnología Mecánica, S.L. (Ultra-High Vacuum UHV sector) was incorporated through an acquisition.

2004 - Creation of Telstar Far East Co. Ltd. with the objective of manufacturing and commercializing vacuum pumps and laminar flow cabinets.

2005 - Telstar and IMA agreed to join forces through the creation of a 50%-50% joint venture to develop lyophilizers with integrated automatic loading/unloading systems.

2006 - The Dutch company Luwa B.V. specialized in hospital operating rooms was acquired.

2007 - Further expansion of the LifeScience Division due to the continuous growth in the customer demand:

• The British company ACE (Applied Containment Engineering), was acquired, a leading company in the design and manufacture of biological containment systems and sterile isolators.

• The joint venture agreement between Telstar and IMA was terminated with Telstar acquiring 100% of the shares and control of the freeze drying business. It becames Telstar Technologies, S.L.

• Takeover of German company LMC Medical Components, Gmbh, a division of Luwa, GmbH specialising in the design and production of operating theatres, with head offices in Bad Houmburg.

2008 - Creation of a unified corporate identity more in line with Telstar's evolution and diversification in recent years. A corporate identity which transmits what Telstar is today: a leading company with a permanent desire to grow, improve and innovate, capable of adapting to meet the demands of the market.