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GERRESHEIMER

The company has optimized

cold-end operations at its

pharmaceutical glass

production plants with

state-of-the-art packing robots

nnovative automated ing process initially kill all the shifts loaded the transport pal-
processes are safeguard- germs. To prevent recontamina- lets. This kind of work involves
“Iing the future of our tion, the bottles go straight from a great deal of effort and con-
plants and improving the qual- the annealing oven to the clean centration because it takes place
ity of our products,” said Dr. room, where various mechanical at high speeds. Gerresheimer
Jürgen Unruh, General Manager and optical inspection systems decided to automate the process
at Gerresheimer Essen. He are used to identify and sort in order to eliminate the resulting
added that the installation of out defective bottles. After the pallet packing errors.
packing robots at the Essen facil- final inspection, the bottles in the
ity serves as an example for the clean room are shrink wrapped OVER 1000 PACKING
other production plants in the in the required pack size with FORMATS
Gerresheimer Group. safe pack technology to ensure All the necessary information
Pharmaceutical packaging that they are hermetically sealed for the palletisation process is
products, such as the glass bottles in a germ-free environment. contained in the order number.
manufactured by Gerresheimer, The shrink wrapped packs The products are shrink wrapped
have to satisfy stringent require- then have to be packaged and with safe pack technology in a
ments and be low in germs and palletized to prevent transporta- clean room environment accord-
particles. The extremely high tion damage. In the past, produc- ing to the customer’s specifica-
temperatures in the glass mould- tion plant personnel working in tions on packing format. There

Every year, Gerresheimer’s pharmaceutical industry customers order

several hundreds of millions of glass pharmaceutical packaging

products manufactured at the company’s plants in Essen and Lohr.

Packing robots were recently introduced to improve the efficiency

and reliability of packing operations before the pharmaceutical glass

products are delivered to customers.

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