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IDT Biologika Combines Thermoforming and Carton Packaging

By using a single machine for these two packaging functions, this German contract packager reduces space requirements while gaining productivity and flexibility.

All steps from forming trays, through product feeding and grouping to cartoning, take place on a compact system. The auto-injectors are placed in trays and then cartoned.
All steps from forming trays, through product feeding and grouping to cartoning, take place on a compact system. The auto-injectors are placed in trays and then cartoned.

Based in Dessau, Germany, IDT Biologika is an international contract packer for pharmaceutical products and part of the Klocke Group. IDT specializes in the production, filling and packaging of vaccines and biologics. The service company covers all development, production and quality steps from active ingredients in bulk form, through sterile filling, to packaging processes and cooling chains, where the company uses state-of-the-art manufacturing and packaging technologies.

The increasing complexity of packaging solutions, changing customer ordering behavior, as well as the trend towards smaller batch sizes pose new challenges to production technology that led IDT to implement a new manufacturing strategy in the field of assembly.

The packaging applications at IDT include cartoning vials of various sizes, numbers and configurations, with or without partitions, as well as blistered syringes and combination packages of syringes and vials, which are combined into kits. A recently added application is to package and carton medical devices in thermoformed packages. IDT approached various machine manufacturers with these requirements.

In late 2016, IDT selected a system from Schubert-Pharma that combines thermoforming and cartoning tasks in a TLM system in a way that is both space-saving and efficient. By handling different types of products on the system, IDT achieves efficient capacity utilization since thermoforming and cartoning are usually carried out on two separate machines.

“We want to achieve greater flexibility with fewer packaging lines over the long term, while increasing capacity utilization,” explains Raimund Merkel of Klocke Holding.

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