KOCH KDT medplus sealing machine with film reel and transparent guard doors

Packaging technology for the medicine of tomorrow

Octapharma GmbH is one of the largest global healthcare companies in family ownership. Since 1983, the company has been developing medicines based on human plasma and cell lines at its headquarters in Switzerland. With a focus on hemophilia, immunology, and intensive care medicine, Octapharma supplies patients in over 120 countries with the goal of sustainably improving lives through modern therapies.

Challenge

  • Adaptation of the production line to the further developments in Octapharma's product portfolio

  • Integration of four different syringe formats into a flexible handling and packaging concept

  • Ensuring precise labeling and print control of the different formats

Solution

  • Customized KOCH PackagingLine, specifically tailored to the handling and processing of Octapharma's syringe formats

  • Sealing machine KDT medplus® with automatic lid foil feed for sealing pre-formed blisters

  • Automated syringe handling including labeling and backstop assembly

  • Individual development of packaging for all four syringe formats

Portrait of Daniel Sternsdorf and Martin Bellstädt of Octapharma, each holding a product from the line
Daniel Sternsdorf and Martin Bellstädt
Project Manager and Head of Production Support Octapharma

With KOCH, we have found a partner with whom we have always worked together as equals. The entire course of the project was consistently characterized by a solution-oriented collaboration of all those involved.

Rotating table with blue holders carrying flat blisters beneath a gantry with suction grippers

Inserting the syringes into blisters on the rotating turntable.

KOCH KDT medplus sealing machine with film reel and transparent guard doors

KOCH KDT medplus® in use – automated packaging solution for medical products.

Robot arm lowering a six-station gripper over the conveyor belts of a packaging line

Robot-based transfer of syringes to the packaging line.

Sealed blister with a white rim holding a prefilled syringe under transparent film

Sterile packaged syringe format in blister packaging for medical use.

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