1965 : Foundation of the company Plastiques Gosselin by Pierre Gosselin (Pharmacist)
1980 : First manufacturing batches of Petri plates in Borre site
1986 : First international products sales
1991 : First manufacturing of bottles by extrusion blowing technology
1995 : Automation of Petri plates packaging
1999 : Construction of a ionisation unit
2000 : ISO 9001 certification version 2000
Construction of a dedicated site to Petri plates manufacturing in a clean room
2001 : Plastiques Gosselin is composed of 250 people on 18 000 m² covered
Buy out of Framoplast, main competitor of Plastiques Gosselin in France
2004 : New warehouse of 3 700 m²
IT logistic management set up
2005 : ERP set up : Proginov
The company counts 300 people on 21 500 m² covered
2006 : Launching of the Research and Development department (R&D)
2007 : Qualium Investissement reach the majority in the Plastiques Gosselin's capital. Improvement of the environmental conditions in the historical part of the production site
2009 : New logo, new identity of the Gosselin's company
ISO 9001 Certification version 2008
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) registration of the company
2010 : Launching of www.gosselin.eu version 3.0 of Gosselin's web site
2011 : Gosselin is acquired by North American firm Corning Incorporated and changes its logo and identity to become Gosselin a Corning Brand
