UK based Glenvale Packaging is making inroads into Europe, supplying a specialist manufacturing chemist in Slovenia with capsule filling equipment that has increased significantly its output rate.
Lekarna Ljubljana is now using a Schaefer Technologies capsule-filling machine with a MultiPharma CPE 6 electronic counting unit already on site.
Potential bottlenecks between production and filling have been removed, says the company. The filling work previously undertaken by two people in two days can be handled by one staff member in little more than two hours.
“Previously, we could fill up to 2,000 capsules each hour, but this has now increased to approximately 15,000, which fully meets our sales volume requirements,” says Marko Znidarsic, deputy director of Lekarna Ljubljana. If required, the Schaefer unit can handle up to 25,000 capsules/hour.
The Schaefer system requires a footprint of just 3.34m2.
