Recently, Bosch built a new packaging line for eye drops at our facility in Waiblingen, Germany. The highly flexible solution, designed in conjunction with our facility in Viersen and with contributions from other suppliers, packs different bottle sizes, as well different quantities of products into folded cartons. Consisting of a bottle labeler, the cartoning machine CUC, the serialization and check weighing module CPS 1400, and a bundler, the line comprehensively packages …more
Here is some helpful information related to the support of your SBM sterilizer in North America. …more
Equipped with filling and isolator technology from Bosch Packaging Technology, Boehringer Ingelheim’s new facility in Biberach an der Riss, Germany, won the 2014 Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) from ISPE, the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering. …more
Highly Purified Water (HPW) is water of the highest quality for use in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Its quality is defined by the European Pharmacopoeia (PhEur, 8th Edition 2014):
At the recently-concluded Interphex Japan 2015, Bosch exhibited the FLT low-speed vial filling, stoppering, and capping machine with 100% checkweigh. The FLT generated significant interest. Visitors were excited about the peristaltic pump technology, the single-use product path, and the …more
Ebola, AIDS, malaria – the people of West Africa are repeatedly affected by particularly severe epidemics. The reasons, above all, are insufficient medical care as well as the limited local production of medicine. In order to overcome these drawbacks, the physician Dr Guy Dovi-Akué returned from Germany to his home town Lomé in Togo in the early 1990s. “Most doctors from Africa who work in Europe never go back. But I had the feeling of being needed in Togo”, he reports. …more
Every three years, Achema – the world’s largest trade fair in the process and packaging technology in the pharma industry – attracts numerous visitors and exhibitors. This year’s Achema, which took place from June 15 to 19, by the numbers: 166,000 visitors from more than 100 countries and 3,813 exhibitors with booths that together covered about 133,000 square meters. …more
Bosch Packaging Technology has received the internationally renowned “Red Dot Award” from the Design Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen in the category product design. The independent 38-member jury announced on March 30 that it awards the company with an “Honourable Mention” and acknowledges the well-executed design achievement of the FXS Combi. The filling and closing machine for pre-sterilized nested syringes, vials and cartridges, developed at the site in Crailsheim, is the first machine from the Packaging Technology division to receive this important design award. …more
In times of increased manipulation and counterfeit drugs, serialization requirements in the pharmaceutical industry are becoming more and more important. With respect to this trend, Bosch developed the …more
At Achema, Bosch Packaging Technology will showcase its latest version of the rotary pen assembly machine MRA. Developed by the Bosch subsidiary Moeller & Devicon, the machine is designed to assemble medical devices such as standard four-piece disposable pens or single-shot auto-injectors. …more
