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Digital Press Meets Short-Run Pharmaceutical Production Needs

New Heidelberg Primefire 106 at Rondo AG’s Switzerland facility produces secondary packaging for pharmaceutical customer. Meanwhile, an anti-counterfeit development project is expected to be running by next year.

In the pharmaceutical industry, Rondo AG is recognized as a supplier of folding cartons, package inserts, as well as system solutions and services. In April 2018, the Allschwil, Switzerland-based company installed the Primefire 106 digital printing system from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.

The digital press represents the final piece in Rondo’s “Supply on Demand” service. “The trends in the pharmaceutical industry are heading towards ever declining runs and shorter delivery times in response to personalized medicine, increasing language and country versions, and much shorter delivery times for medicines,” says Joachim Hoeltz, Rondo AG’s CEO. “Our production consists entirely of secondary packaging. Through process automation and close IT integration we offer our customers a just-in-time service and by doing so help them to optimize their own supply chain.”

Rondo’s Supply on Demand service initiated at the 2017 interpack trade fair. Since then, the company has supplied a key pharmaceutical customer with folding carton orders with very short delivery times. Rondo automated its own workflow and optimized the ERP integration with its customer. The goal of providing small batch sizes in consistently high quality with delivery times of less than a week has been achieved through conventional offset printing and optimized job preparation and postpress processes. A Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 10-color perfecting press with coating unit is currently used for printing.

Supply on Demand helps pharmaceutical customers reduce their total cost of ownership. The precision delivery of the required quantities reduces storage costs or eliminates them completely in case of direct delivery to the packaging machine. That helps to avoid costs for destroying obsolete packaging. The close IT integration saves administrative costs as well.

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