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Röchling Medical opens new production
hall and creates 30 new jobs
– Building forms part of an investment program with a volume of EUR 50 million until 2025
– Expansion enables production of up to 100 million tanks a year
ry because Röchling Medical has acquired
a major order from a high-profile German
pharmaceutical company for around 30 million
tanks a year and this would have exceeded
its existing capacity. The plastics processing
company now aims to obtain additional
major orders for the Neuhaus site, which
produces packaging systems for the pharmaceutical,
diagnostics and medical technology
industries. Manufacturing, assembly,
and packaging take place under controlled
conditions in clean rooms.
The new building has a total area of 1,850
square meters. The first floor of the four-story
building is home to the central element:
a GMP class C and D clean room production
facility covering a total of 1,700 square meters,
where containers, bottles, and canisters
made from thermoplastic materials will be
produced for pharmaceutical and diagnostic
applications from the first quarter of 2023 onward.
Röchling has also invested in co-extrusion
blow molding machines for the produc-
Opening the new production hall of Röchling Medical Solutions SE in Neuhaus am Rennweg together
on Friday (from left): Jürgen Köpper, First Deputy Mayor of the Sonneberg district; Uwe Scheler,
Mayor of Neuhaus am Rennweg; Dr. Daniel Bühler, CEO Röchling Medical; Alexander Stauch, Site
Manager Röchling Medical Neuhaus; architect Michael Müller; Thuringia‘s Minister of Economy
Wolfgang Tiefensee; Evelyn Thome, CFO Röchling Group; Raphael Wolfram, Spokesman of the Executive
Board Röchling Group; Dr. Carl Peter Thürmel, Member of the Advisory Board Röchling Group;
and Dr. Andreas Gabriel, COO Röchling Medical. (Photo: Röchling)
Röchling Medical Solutions SE, a subsidiary
of the Mannheim-based Röchling Group,
celebrated the opening of the new production
hall at its Neuhaus am Rennweg site
in Germany on Friday, September 30, 2022.
A total of EUR 50 million will be invested in
the expansion until 2025, making it one of
the Röchling Group’s biggest investments
in a single location. The globally active plastics
processing company will soon be able
to produce up to 100 million tanks a year at
this site using the co-extrusion blow molding
technique.
“I am delighted that we have been able
to expand our production capacities in Neuhaus
with the new building. This lays the
foundation for further organic growth and
will allow us to meet our customers’ needs
and requirements even more effectively in
the future,” comments Dr. Daniel Bühler, who
became the new CEO of Röchling Medical in
early July. The investment, which is also creating
30 new modern jobs, became necessation
facility. This will give the company a total
annual capacity of between 80 and 100 million
tanks, depending on the size required. It
will be able to produce tanks with a volume
of between two milliliters and ten liters. The
material preparation facility and the ventilation
and filtration systems are based on the second
floor above the clean room. The ground
floor is home to the plant room and logistics,
some of which satisfy clean room conditions.
The Neuhaus site has expertise in almost
all single-layer and multilayer blow molding
technologies. “In particular, we have many
years of experience and well-established
expertise when it comes to extrusion blow
molding. Combining this with automation
and inline process controls allows us to manufacture
and deliver highly complex products,”
says site manager Alexander Stauch.
To meet the specific demands of the medical
technology and pharmaceutical industries,
the planning process was conducted with a
particular view to ensuring compliance with
regulatory requirements and enabling automation.
The overall internal product flow is
managed by an autonomous transport system
to optimize production workflows under
clean room conditions and to avoid product
contamination.
In addition to the location’s environmental
and energy standards, which are already
certified under ISO 14001 and 50001, the
basement of the new building features a cold
storage system to sustainably save energy resources
and reduce carbon emissions. Under
this concept, the firefighting water tank for
the sprinkler system, which has a volume of
around 2,000 cubic meters, is reduced to a
low temperature overnight as cold storage
and the energy produced is used to supply
the production lines with cooling water during
the day. “In addition to LED lighting and
controlled room ventilation, we have installed
a compressed air station so that we can
generate process air using energy-efficient
oil-free compressors that meet the highest
cleanliness standards,” says Stauch, who is