Gerresheimer opens new production plant in Poland
Gerresheimer Group has commissioned a new cleanroom production facility for its Polish subsidiary Polfa, part of the company's glassPackaging division. The state-of-the-art cleanroom is a critical factor in the production of pharmaceutical vials and marks an important step towards the future development of Polfa's glass business, according to managing director Jerzy Sobolewski.
The new 200m2 cleanroom will be used to manufacture a variety of pharmaceutical vials, including injection vials and screw-neck vials, which leave the cleanroom only after shrink-wrapping ready for delivery. Initially four production lines have been installed, but there is space to double this to eight. This will bring potential annual vial production capacity to 150m units, compared with 50m in 2004.
The 550m3 of air in the cleanroom are changed completely 17 times an hour by advanced circulation and filtration equipment. Currently the facility is rated class D (100,000), but is designed to allow an upgrade to class C (10,000).
Polfa employs 500 people, half of them in the tubular packaging division, part of the Gerresheimer glassPackaging Division.