Syringe packaging: Sharp chooses KOCH

Sharp Belgium is a company specialized in the assembly and secondary packaging of injectable products. The site has more than 60 years of experience in the packaging sector. The strength of the site lies in innovation and technology, to design, develop, and implement new packaging processes. This enables unique packaging requirements of customers to be met.

Challenge

  • Design of a new system for particularly economical packaging of filled syringes

  • Including printing of Tyvek top foil with customer logo and variable, product-specific information

  • Maximum machine flexibility and easy operation

Solution

  • Efficient system based on the KOCH rotary table machine KDT medplus®

  • Syringes and needles are manually placed into automatically supplied blisters

  • Automatic inspection of product completeness in the blister

  • Reliable printing of the lidding foil

  • Thermal sealing by patented sealing tool

Toon Verstraeten
Project Engineer at Sharp Packaging

We were in discussions with three potential suppliers for the project. KOCH provided the best concept – both in terms of the system itself and in terms of support and overall pricing.

KOCH rotary table machine KDT medplus® in the cleanroom during ongoing operation.

Manual loading of the products on the KOCH rotary table machine KDT medplus®.

Sterile packaged syringe in final packaging state.