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We have a solution for everything – and more importantly: they can all be connected through our unique Körber Ecosystem. In our current seven areas of expertise, we are at your disposal with our comprehensive know-how.

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With our PAS-X MES - on premise or cloud-based - and our software solutions for analysis, track & trace, networked factories, and intelligent packaging, we are the world's leading supplier and partner to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. With our holistic understanding and use of digitalization, you remain future-proof and combine digital innovation with sustainability.

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Handling systems

Handling systems

Looking for perfectly designed production lines that reduce operational complexity, can adapt quickly to changes in the pharmaceutical industry and work seamlessly with your software and machinery? We are specialists for complete handling systems for pharmaceutical and medical products. Our solutions are decisive in the field of contactless and safe transport of e.g. glass syringes.

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Inspection machines

Inspection

As the world's leading inspection expert, we develop solutions for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Our range of products extends from AI-supported, high-performance machines and semi-automatic machines to laboratory units and inspection applications for in-process control. As thought leaders in the field, we always make sure that machines and software speak the same language.

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Packaging machines

We are a leading supplier of packaging machines for liquid and solid pharmaceutical and medical products. With our blister, sachet and stick packaging machines we offer solutions for primary packaging. Our side and topload cartoners set standards worldwide for secondary packaging. Our ecosystem approach ensures that all machines, software, and other components operate harmoniously and perform at the highest level.

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K.Pak Topload Case Packer

Introducing our latest solution from Körber; the K.Pak Topload Case Packer! Created specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, the K.Pak solution provides operator-friendly machines to complete any production line. Our solution focuses on innovative technology, high-quality design and expert handling and packaging of your product. It’s time to start connecting the dots with Körber!

Packaging solutions

Packaging solutions

As long-standing specialists, we develop packaging solutions for innovative and high-quality secondary pharmaceutical packaging made of cardboard. We offer you solutions for counterfeit protection, standard folding boxes and much more.

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Our experts will advise you during the analysis of your requirements, show you optimization potential and support you during the implementation of projects in all areas of the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industry. Our aim is to achieve holistic optimization for your factory of excellence.

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You need help with a specific product or have questions about one of our areas of expertise? Körber is your forward-looking navigator to excellence. We provide data-led, proactive advice and services to improve what is needed to scale and evolve towards your factory of excellence.

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Packaging Materials

From development to market readiness: Körber offers Packaging Qualification Services from a single source

Allschwil, May 2022. In the development, implementation and qualification of pharma-compliant secondary packaging, in addition to precision and maximum product protection, smooth integration of the packaging solution into production processes and a fast time-to-market are also important. With its Packaging Qualification Services, Körber enables its pharma customers to examine the optimal product protection of their secondary packaging using recognized pre-tests during the qualification phase. This means that product launches can be accelerated and additional costs due to checks can be avoided.

In recent years, Körber AG’s Pharma Packaging Materials Business Area has continued to broaden its expertise in the area of packaging development at its locations in Europe and the USA. Since mid-2021, Körber packaging specialists have been offering their pharma customers, at the locations in Allschwil in Switzerland, in Ejpovice in the Czech Republic and in Camden, NJ, USA, the opportunity to develop their secondary packaging in accordance with uniform standards in ‘Packaging Innovation Centers’. One particular offering is Packaging Qualification Services.0

„With our Packaging Qualification Services, we can give our customers the opportunity to quickly and flexibly test a wide range of properties and behaviors of their folding boxes and to draw valuable conclusions for the optimization of their packaging,“ explains Patric Buck, Head of Innovation Packaging Materials in Körber‘s Pharma Business Area. „This saves them the sometimes very time-consuming search for available external testing laboratories.“ Körber offers this service regardless of whether the folding boxes have been developed in-house or by another provider.

Among other things, the Packaging Qualification Services offered by the packaging experts include tests on the resilience of the packaging and on product protection during production and shipping. By simulating the packaging free-falling onto its corners, edges and surfaces from a defined height, pharma companies can demonstrate that the packaging is intact after the drop and that the product is not damaged. Tensile and compression tests are carried out to prove that adhesive bonds can withstand defined tensile and compressive forces and that perforations tear cleanly and in a clearly defined manner. In addition, the forces required to open the packaging or perforation can be tested. Abrasion tests are carried to test the resistance of cardboard surfaces to mechanical stress, liquids and lubricants.

A climate simulation can also be used to test the behavior of folding boxes under specific environmental conditions. At temperatures of -75 °C to 180 °C and a relative humidity of 10% to 98%, extreme transport and storage temperatures, for example of Covid-19 vaccines or in tropical regions, can be simulated, as well as the aging of a product over its life cycle. Tests such as resistance to creasing, friction coefficient and erecting force provide information on the machinability of folding cartons on high-performance packaging machines. The resistance between the individual cardboard blanks, the coefficient of friction, has an effect on the smooth feeding of the folding box blanks into the system. In addition, the creasing resistance defines the force required to fold the blanks and to bend and flip the tabs. These tests can therefore ensure that blanks from different suppliers are also reliably suitable for use in the machines, without time-consuming adjustment of system parameters.

For more information about Packaging Qualification Services:

https://www.koerber-pharma.com/services/packaging-qualification-services

Case Study: Dipharma

How Körber and Dipharma resolved a packaging challenge.

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Körber Pharma Packaging Materials AG
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tom.egli@koerber.com

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