The semi-automatic dispensing system enables the firms to label tiny quantities and a variety of containers quickly, flexibly, and with consistent standards of quality
With the new dispensing system Octapharma can efficiently mark smallest quantities of containers. (Credit: Schreiner Group)
Labelling solutions provider Schreiner MediPharm has provided a new automated application system to healthcare company Octapharma for marking vials and infusion bottles.
The semi-automatic dispensing system intends to meet the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s need for a quick, accurate, and professional solution.
It also enables the business to label tiny quantities and a variety of containers quickly, flexibly, and with consistent standards of quality.
Developed in collaboration with the Schreiner Services competence centre, the specialised labelling system can label vials and infusion bottles of various forms, sizes, and diameters automatically.
Due to its tiny design, it takes up little room, allows for quick changeovers, is simple to operate, and can be modified individually, said Schreiner.
Through this new technology, Octapharma can now mark tiny batch sizes and products like clinical trial pharmaceuticals or smaller markets, in a dependable, cost-effective, and time-saving manner.
The system can also process any glass container, including large bottles and very large bottles with narrow radii.
It is possible to use containers with a diameter ranging from 15 millimetres to 170 millimetres and depending on how they are shaped, the height of the bottles might range from 35 to 250 millimetres, said the labelling firm.
Octapharma Visual Inspection & Packaging Operations deputy head Brigitta Nehrer said: “We are able to label all products from the smallest vials to large bottles efficiently at high and, above all, consistent levels of quality.
“Compared to previous manual application processes, this reduces the workload of our employees noticeably. As a result, handling of small batch sizes has been professionalised and become clearly more economical.”
In February this year, Schreiner MediPharm launched a tamper-resistant label for vials that includes a clear and irreversible first-opening indication.