At the beginning of May, Groninger shipped another system that is used specifically for processing Covid-19 vaccines. Only eleven months lie between the order and commissioning.
A filling and capping machine for a US pharmaceutical company was designed, built and delivered on time in record time. The customer, a national US contract bottler who Part of an internationally operating pharmaceutical company was awarded a contract by the US authorities for the production and processing of coronavirus vaccines in early summer 2020. The production and processing process has been running at other plants since autumn. Capacity is now being expanded further.
Covid-19 plant was one of the most ambitious orders
The construction and punctual delivery of this plant was one of the most ambitious orders in the company's 40-year history, according to Jens Groninger, CEO of the company of the same name Mechanical engineering company from Crailsheim.
Chartered for air transport Groninger an extra aeroplane. In his luggage: a so-called Integra, a vial system with integrated isolator. The integrated machine concept is a joint development with the insulator manufacturer Skan and was presented for the first time at Achema in 2018.
Almost 15,000 vials and thus around 45,000 vaccine doses will be processed hourly on the fully integrated line once it has been commissioned. The line will operate at full capacity, producing over 30 million vaccine doses per month.
SourceGroninger
