Nicos Group
Upholding Quality Standards in Pharma Manufacturing Landscape

As pharmaceutical processes evolve, the need for cleanrooms that can keep up with the emerging and increasingly stringent requirements is escalating.

Nicos Group Inc, headquartered in New Jersey, serves this demand by establishing itself as a leading provider of cleanrooms and washing and sterilizing systems in the healthcare and life science industries. Its roots can be traced to Italy in 1977 when entrepreneur Franco Nigris founded the parent company Nicomac. In 1985, Nicos Group was set up as a distribution company in the U.S, and later in 2002, Nicomac Inc. changed its name to Nicos Group, becoming a well-known and major brand in North America’s pharmaceutical market.

Amid challenges posed by increased costs and rising competition in the pharmaceutical industry, Nicos Group’s modular cleanroom system, with its uncompromising quality standards, is an asset to pharma manufacturers. It offers an assortment of solutions for modular cleanroom systems for ISO 8, ISO 7, and ISO 5 areas. A signature product of Nicos Group is the high-pressure laminate (HPL) walls, which are sturdy, and highly resistant to scratches and impacts, which translate into lower maintenance costs over time. It also provides metal walls made of aluminum, powder-coated steel, and stainless steel as well as GMP cleanroom modular glass walls that provide full visibility into cleanroom areas. Cleanroom doors (swing-out and rollup) and modular ceilings are examples of other cleanroom materials (walk-on continuous panel and T Grid walkable false ceiling). The unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (uPVC) coated metal wall panels offered by Nicos Group have high mechanical resistance due to their high thickness and PVC coating.

Nicos Group delivers a wide range of materials for cleanroom panels, unlike most contemporaries that limit themselves to only one type of panel.

Modularity and flexibility are the fundamental advantages of Nicos Group products. Nicos Group is the one-stop shop for all cleanroom-related services from full turnkey supply of a big manufacturing unit to the supply of materials for a small room.

Essentially, it provides turnkey design, mechanical, electric, and plumbing (MEP) supply, current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) advice, architectural turnkey supply (walls, doors, ceilings, accessories) and installation, modular system material supply, and installation monitoring.

“Our modular panel system allows maximum architectural design and construction flexibility as it can be modulated and customized according to the client’s needs,” says Francesco Nigris, Chief Executive Officer, of Nicos Group.

What truly sets Nicos Group apart from its competitors is its emphasis on quality. Nicos Group’s installation teams undergo regular assessments that evaluate their competence, efficiency, professionalism, and safety. They also learn through refresher training courses designed to improve efficiency and promote excellence. Simultaneously, it ensures proper execution during the cleanrooms’ design, construction, and installation.

Since its inception, Nicos Group has ignited numerous success stories in the pharmaceutical manufacturing landscape. A clinical-stage biotechnology company, for example, approached Nicos Group for a cleanroom installation in their New York facility. Nicos Group provided a complete turnkey ISO 7 cleanroom (including engineering design services, permitting wall system, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and more). The cleanroom was handed over to the customer within five months of the purchase order date, enabling them to enter the validation stage of drug development on schedule. Nicos Group’s ability to meet an aggressive timeline while providing high-quality cleanable surfaces was critical to the project’s success.

Through its world-class products and services, Nicos Group has successfully partnered with reputed pharma and medical device manufacturing companies in many projects across the 50 states in the U.S as well as in countries like Canada, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Nicos Group is now expanding its reach into healthcare, semiconductors, and automotive companies. In fact, the company has just been awarded a multimillion project by Ford Co. Moving forward, Nicos Group is poised to achieve great results and high levels of client satisfaction thanks to its unanimously recognized excellence in providing state-of-the-art cleanrooms and expertise backed support.