Aptos Factory to Be Built in Georgia

Georgian company Aptos which has 23 years’ experience and is the inventor and producer of the world famous face-lifting Aptos threads, is to open a factory in Georgia.

The project was funded within the frames of the state program Enterprise Georgia.

The company started developing a Georgian production complex in 2016. In 2018, in the framework of the Enterprise Georgia project, Aptos was granted 10,000 square meters of land to build the first Georgian enterprise for aesthetic medical products. City Hall issued the permit to build the factory in December 2018. It also received financial support, with the Enterprise Georgia Agency to co-finance the interest rate of the loan for the next two years.

On March 21, the official foundation-laying ceremony was held in Tbilisi.

This will be the first enterprise in the Caucasus to provide a space for producing aesthetic medical products. The complex consists not only of a production line but also office infrastructure.

Aptos is also the first Georgian company to have a CE (Conformité Européene) label on medical products, which allows their export to any European market.

At this point, Aptos threads are sold in over 50 countries through a large-scale distribution network. However, the threads are currently manufactured in Russia for the Russian and Chinese market and in Germany for the global market. This entirely Georgian invention is spread under the “Made in Germany” label among plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine specialists of several dozen countries around the world.

Georgia’s Ministry of Economy says that the project has a strategic advantage.

“The label ‘Made in Germany’ on the Aptos products will be changed to ‘Made in Georgia’ and the products themselves will reach different markets with that label. Over the next two years, the company plans to enter important markets like Brazil, the USA, Canada, Mexico, Thailand and Singapore,” the ministry said.

Construction is set for completion next year and the factory will start functioning in December 2020, able to produce 300,000 units annually.

At the first stage, the company will provide jobs for 100 people, with an investment of 15 million GEL.

Georgia’s Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Giorgi Kobulia said that the government will do its best to promote and support such projects.

“Such projects can become the driving force of the Georgian economy. These are the projects that will defeat poverty. The initiation of such a project is another justification that Georgia has a favorable business environment and is ready to accept and develop such projects,” the Minister noted at the official foundation-laying ceremony.

By Tea Mariamidze

Image source: Ministry of Economy