BEST PRACTICE SHARP

SYRINGE PACKAGING:
SHARP DECIDES TO WORK WITH KOCH

Sharp Belgium is a company specialized in the assembly and secondary packaging of injectables. The site has more than 60 years of experience in the packaging sector. The strength of the site is based on innovation and technology to design, develop and implement new packaging processes. This allows unique packaging requirements of the customers to be met.

Task

Design of a new line for the particularly economic packaging of filled syringes
Including printing of the Tyvek lid film with customer logo and variable, product- specific information
Maximum machine flexibility and easy operation

Solution

Efficient machine based on the KOCH turntable machine KDT medplus^®
Syringes and needles are manually inserted into automatically fed blisters
Automatic presence inspection of the products in the blister
Reliable printing of the lid film
Thermal sealing by patented sealing tool

Results

GMP and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant monitoring of the machine data by KOCH Audit Trail Pack (digital service package)
Easy format changes
High energy efficiency
Future viability included: The machine can be flexibly adapted to new packaging and product sizes

We held talks with three potential suppliers for this project. KOCH delivered the best concept – both in terms of the line itself, as well as the support and overall pricing. We had an extremely ambitious schedule due to our customer’s deadline, as well as the additional challenge presented by the Covid pandemic. KOCH was highly motivated and flexible in supporting our aims.

Toon Verstraeten, Project Engineer at Sharp Packaging

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more productivity

(shown as an example with a performance of 4,800 syringes/hour)

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reliable

Sophisticated machine concept with integrated inspection functions

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safe

GMP compliant turntable machine for sensitive Healthcare products