ABOUT

Ortoplast has its origins in Auxiplast, a company founded in 1982 by my father, Ramón Sambola, a chemist by profession specialising in plastics, after working for many years for Plexiglas and its star product plexidur.

At the end of the 80s, working for him, and somewhat following my intuition, I convinced my father to create a specific department in the company to distribute a plastic focused on orthopaedics.

Little by little, with a lot of tenacity, and almost as a personal gamble, I introduced the product to Spanish companies by cold calling and cold door visits. In 1989, I even stood in front of the Orthopaedic Congress in Barcelona to hand out brochures to the visitors.

The rewards

And yes, it paid off and it worked.

In fact, it worked so well that, in 1993, Ortoplast was born as a company, already 100% dedicated to orthopaedic materials, even going on to manufacture its own products under the names of Ortotransfer and Shockicel. 

Today we distribute all over the world (from Mexico and Canada to India and Thailand, passing through South Africa or, closer to home, Ukraine, France or Germany) and we have more than 350 loyal customers who trust us and our catalogue year after year.

My pride

In any case, there is something I am particularly proud of; and that is to have grown (and to continue to grow) in a natural way, without great pretensions and coherently, faithful to ideals that lead me to focus more on the development and improvement of new products than on promotion, without ever neglecting our service.

What's more, you've probably come here through references, because we don't invest in advertising and we only attend a few, very selected fairs.

All this is possible thanks to a small but united, cohesive and well-knit team of seven people in which professionalism prevails, but also a fluidity that is part of Ortoplast's DNA.