Amazing high-capacity production line ready for delivery
Bausch + Ströbel presents new development - office building almost completed - further new buildings planned
A Hi-Tec production line built by the Ilshofen company Bausch + Ströbel is ready for delivery to a customer in the USA. But that's not the only news: things are moving on the company premises. Investments are being made.
No question: A company going to such an extent to present an undoubtedly amazing, high-capacity machine has every right to be proud of its product. Journalists from the local and specialist press vied for the best positions to take photos. The presentation of the 40 m long production line lasted about an hour and included detailed information that went way beyond expectations. The data alone are impressive: Up to 36 000 vials can be processed per hour (a vial is a small bottle, for instance for serum).
The work processes cleaning, sterilizing, aseptic filling and closing, inspection and tray-loading are carried out fully automatically without a single hand intervening in the process. The system can only be influenced from the outside using gloves installed in the isolator wall. All the processes are permanently monitored by the machines themselves.
This technical marvel is worth 10.5 million Euros. About 6.5 million are the Bausch + Ströbel components and the rest - i.e. the isolator technology - are delivery by Skan AG, located near Basle. The customer is planning to fill high price products produced in complex biotechnological processes, such as hormone preparations and drugs required for cancer therapy. Each individual vial of these drugs is sold for up to $2000, the project manager Werner Wieland explained yesterday. The decisive factor for the order, Wieland continued, were references, test series and the customer's confidence in the proven technology from Ilshofen.
The managing director and partner, Siegfried Bullinger, also informed the press that the new 4-storey administrative building is not the last of the extensions to the premises. "In the next five, six years", Bullinger said, about 10 to 12 million Euros are to be invested in assembly, dispatch, stock-picking, warehouse and quality control. The company has about 900 employees at the moment, of which 117 are trainees.
