VOCO.

VOCO's own image brochure says the company has supplied dental materials since 1981 and that development, manufacture, and assembly are at the Cuxhaven headquarters. The brochure says the portfolio exceeds 100 products, shipped to practices and laboratories in more than 100 countries, and that the Cuxhaven buildings grew in 1992, 1997, 2005, 2013, and 2017 to about 39,000 square meters. It says business in Cuxhaven started with 22 products, including Amalgam Liner.

A dental journal interview with managing director Olaf Sauerbier, who said he joined in 1993 and became managing director in 2002, gives the family story. He said his father-in-law bought VOCO in 1981 and moved the company to Cuxhaven in one truck. He said the oldest commercial-register extract the company had found was from 1949 in Wollstein, with a move to Neu-Bamberg in 1969, and that the VOCO name's origin is no longer documented. He put employment at about 430 people in Cuxhaven and just under 900 worldwide.

The brochure dates Grandio, which it calls the first nano-hybrid composite, to 2003, and GrandioSO to 2010. It dates the SingleDose Futurabond U dual-curing universal adhesive to 2013 and Admira Fusion, described as a ceramic-based restorative using nano-hybrid and ORMOCER technology, to 2015. Those priority phrases are VOCO's. The interview says prophylaxis, including a fluoride varnish, was the first pillar, then composites and bonding, then temporaries, then milling and printing materials.

The brochure says the range covers prophylaxis, restorative materials, glass ionomers, core build-ups, crown and bridge materials, adhesives, fluoride varnishes, and fissure sealants, all made in Cuxhaven. GrandioSO Unlimited is described in a Dental Tribune ASEAN interview as a universal composite placed in layers up to 4 mm. That depth is a manufacturer statement. Follow the IFU for the shade you actually have. Sauerbier also said the company received CE certification in 1995, early for the firm, because the pharmaceutical background already required documented processes. He put revenue above 160 million euros in that interview and said the sixth expansion of the Cuxhaven site had opened. Those are his figures for the company, not a price list. The image brochure says the bulk of the portfolio is made only in Cuxhaven, which is the traceability point to put on a purchasing file.

VOCO suits a practice that wants Cuxhaven-made composites, adhesives, sealants, or temporaries. Universal composites are compared on the universal composite guide.

Flowables, sealants, and fluoride varnish are neighboring purchases. See the flowable guide, the sealant guide, and the fluoride varnish guide.

Grandio is a resin composite. Glass ionomer cements are a different chemistry, covered on the glass ionomer guide and the luting guide. Etchants are on the etchant guide.

Printing and milling materials are the fourth pillar in the Sauerbier interview. They belong with the 3D printer guide, not with a chairside syringe.

The brochure says products are developed and made only in Cuxhaven. Ask the distributor which lot code traces to that site and what the shelf life is.

Temporary crowns and inlays have their own guides: temporary crown and bridge and temporary inlay and onlay. Bases and liners are on the bases and liners guide.