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40 years of Bausch + Ströbel
As world market leader for pre-filled syringe processing machines this company, originally founded with four employees in 1967, can look back over its remarkable development in this, its 40th (41st) anniversary year. Following a reorganisation of the company with a change of ownership structure in 2007, the celebrations took place in September 2008, a year late. The shareholders are now the Ströbel and Bullinger families and the directors are Messrs Siegfried Bullinger and Markus Ströbel.
The main factory at Ilshofen in Hohenlohe employs 850 people and prepares 90 trainees (in six trades requiring an apprenticeship and three courses of study) for their future careers. The sites in the US, France, Japan and Russia bring the total number of employees up to 1,080.
Bausch + Ströbel has two particular distinguishing features: 1. a high level of willingness to achieve, with lots of ideas, along with an exceptionally good organisation climate, and 2. the development of new machine generations and the very high manufacturing penetration, all kept in?house. All the know-how, and all the responsibility, are retained by the company.
Here is a quick review of the milestones in machine design and manufacture:
- 1967: first filling and closing machine, handling 2,500 ampoules per hour.
- 1972: world's first ampoule machine on the rotary principle.
- 1975: world's first processing line for disposable syringes.
- 1978: development of a two-part stainless steel rotary pump.
- 1983: production of a weighing and dosing line for weight-oriented dosing and documentation of every single bottle in a batch.
- 1983: in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute, design of a system for particle testing of ampoules.
- Following years: continuing development of magazine and transport systems for handling liquids and solids.
- 1996: high capacity carpule line using isolator technology (36,000 carpules per hour).
- 1999: presentation of a laser closing system
- 2003: stress-free, contactless transport of packaging such as vials or syringe bodies.
- 2006: disposable syringe filling line (60,000 syringes per hour).
