Gerresheimer Zaragoza in Spain optimize production of PET pharma bottles

Gerresheimer Zaragoza wird zum neuen Produktionsstandort für Pharmaflaschen und -verschlüsse aus Kunststoff.

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The Gerresheimer plant in the Spanish town of Zaragoza optimizes the business model to meet the pharma expectations by including a total solution of bot-tles and caps. All processes are following the target “Customer in Focus” to make sure the clients perceive this as more than an adaption.

“All the staff at the plant have been working very hard to facilitate the optimization of Gerresheimer Zaragoza into a competence center for amongst other pharmaceutical bottle and closure production,” commented Niels Düring, Global Executive Vice President Plastic Packaging. The optimization of the production processes, all the associated technical modifications and the construction of a new ISO class 7 clean room have already commenced. The product portfolio has also been adapted to reflect customer requirements.

Plastic pharmaceutical bottles and closures

Gerresheimer has decided to roll out new technology for pharmaceutical bottle production in Zaragoza. The new, high-performance machines manufacture PET bottles in higher quality, both as a result of the optimized machine technology and due to improved material distribution. The bottle top design has been modified so that the bottles can be fitted with any kind of closure system, from tamper-evident and child-safe closures, at one end of the scale, to simple stoppers, on the other. Production of PP128/PP28 standard closures and accessories has now commenced in Zaragoza. The plant offers a total solution with tamper evident closures. In other words, Zaragoza is evolving into a system supplier of high quality PET pharmaceutical bottles.

The new clean room

By October 2016 construction work will be finished and the new ISO 7 clean room will be ready. The new 600 square meters clean room is designed to house nine injection stretch blow moulding (ISBM) and injection moulding (IM) machines, and another six can be successively installed before the maximum capacity of fifteen in total is reached.