Pharma

Bosch and ASPIRx to set up partnership in Ghana

On the occasion of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tour of Africa, Robert Bosch Packaging Technology and ASPIRx Ltd, Ghana, have agreed to form a partnership to produce pharmaceuticals. A corresponding letter of intent was signed by both parties on August 30, 2018, in Accra, Ghana. As a representative of Bosch Packaging Technology, Mazen Touban, Vice President for the markets in Africa and Middle East, …more

ALF 5000 wins German Packaging Award 2018

Bosch Packaging Technology sees “red”: The ALF 5000 filling and closing machine has won the German Packaging Award 2018 . Joachim Brenner, general manager of the site in Crailsheim and product manager Tobias Goettler accepted the desired prize in the form of a red packaging cube in front of hundreds of guests at the awards ceremony on September 25. “We are very proud of this award, …more

Formulation development: help customers help themselves

In Bosch’s competence center in Schopfheim, Germany, Dr. Marcus Knöll has been supporting customer in all development and production stages of solid pharmaceuticals for 12 years. His recipe for success: helping customers help themselves, while always keeping up with market requirements and customer demands. The latter are currently facing especially high cost pressure and the need for fast time-to-market. …more

Let’s automate!

Blow, fill, seal – this is the triad for an innovative approach in aseptic liquid processing. As the name suggests, containers are formed from PE plastic, filled and then sealed, resulting in virtually unbreakable and easy-to-transport single doses. …more

Risk-based qualification in the GMP area is both an opportunity and a challenge

With a risk-based approach effort and costs of GMP-compliant qualification can be reduced without loss of quality.

The risk-based qualification process can be described easily: there is the risk-based approach of validation and the risk-based implementation of qualification. The risk-based validation approach is the fundament of modern quality systems across all industries in order to identify GMP-critical process steps and plants. In pharmaceutical manufacturing, …more

Learning from the Pharmatec pros in Dresden

Huge stainless-steel containers, numerous pipes and tubes, large water tanks and machines right up to the roof. During the “Lange Nacht der Industrie” (LNdI, in English “long night of industry”) on June 28, visitors to the Bosch subsidiary Pharmatec in Dresden learnt what this is all about.

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