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Bone Cement Set Features Automated Assembly and Packaging Line

Heraeus Medical’s new bone cement system supplied by Optima Automation offers higher process reliability with automated component feeding that minimizes operator intervention.

PALACOS® pro is designed to revolutionize the mixing and application of bone cement, as it is easier and safer to use than previous systems.
PALACOS® pro is designed to revolutionize the mixing and application of bone cement, as it is easier and safer to use than previous systems.

For over 60 years, Heraeus Medical, a subsidiary of the technological firm Heraeus, has been producing bone cement in Wehrheim, Germany. Their latest development, the PALACOS® pro bone cement system, is manufactured in a new 2,800 sq m building that opened in the summer of 2018. 

PALACOS is a prefilled, closed mixing and application system for bone cement that is reported to benefit operating room staff by ensuring clean, contact-free work while being faster to use than comparable products

Back in 2015, Dr. Britta Baer, head of supply chain at Heraeus Medical, and her team sought a suitable partner at ACHEMA for the machine project to assemble and package PALACOS pro, representing a new era in the field of cemented endoprosthetics. At the show, now-retired Ottmar Schneider, former sales director at Optima Automation, convinced Dr. Baer they could deliver.


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Flexible reaction to product modifications 

The project required close collaboration between Optima Automation, the manufacturer of two thermoforming packaging machines, and Heraeus. 

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