Technologies and know-how

Packaging solutions

Product originals perfectly protected and presented

Packaging with Harro Höfliger is much more than just wrapping a product to protect it from external influences and tampering. Our portfolio includes machines and technologies for the entire spectrum. For a wide variety of products in numerous forms of packaging, including folding cartons, tablet blisters in wallets and outer cartons, to name a few. Whether vials, syringes, pens, autoinjectors, blisters or blow-fill-seal products, our expertise in complex applications is the key to a precise, efficient process for your products. Our modular machine concepts ensure quick format adaptations, individual closure variants and the integration of product-specific feed systems. Want more than just packaging? Harro Hofliger is an expert in turnkey and customizable solutions for your product.

Our expertise

Feeding of sealed bags via a cycloidal system. Vacuum grippers pick up the bags and place them on the conveyor belt.

Precise application of labels with product-specific information on four-sided sealed pouches.

Upright feeding and horizontal placement of vials - gentle on the product and safe processing via a turning wheel.

Safe and precise: Picking up and transferring tubular bags to the cup chain with vacuum gripper.

Continuous feeding of flat blanks from the folding carton storage. Active opening and transfer to the downstream station for inserting the products.

Insertion of vials into environmentally friendly carton inlays using pick-and-place. Side loading of the products, plus inserts in top-opening folding cartons.

Inline marking of folding boxes with serialization data using an inkjet printer and recording of individual codes.

Erecting flat shipping carton blanks. Active opening and lateral insertion of the stacked products in a clocked Casepacker MCP.

Dispensing of package inserts on syringe blisters via a friction feeder.

Erecting folding carton blanks using a cycloidal system. Placing them in the cup chain of an intermittent motion cartoner of the MKT.

Perfectly coordinated system solutions

In focus: your product

Need side loading for top opening folding cartons? Or environmentally friendly inlays made of mono cardboard? What about handling of sensitive vials or productive processing of pouches with a smooth surface? Or is your focus egulatory requirements for product protection and traceability? Here at Harro, your product defines the process. Our approach is always the same: We first advise on packaging design and materials, then define the core processes and integrate them into a tailor-made solution. Which, thanks to our modular designs, also packs your new products with confidence.

Packaging

Cartoning and packaging machines: That’s where we started – it’s in our DNA. We have over 50 years of experience in designing safe and efficient processes for packaging your products in all types of folding cartons and shipping boxes.

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Innovative solutions

Technologies at Harro Höfliger

For pharmaceuticals

Dosing and filling, web processing, barrier technology: just some of the core technologies that we have perfected over decades. We combine each with our expertise in pharmaceuticals to create your perfectly coordinated system solution, which is far more than just high-tech mechanical engineering.

For medical technology

Your success principle for a dynamic market with short innovation cycles: the modular design of our systems. For future-proof processes that keep up with your pace and, despite all the flexibility, always guarantee the highest quality in accordance with regulatory requirements.

For consumer goods

Portion packs are simply practical, but the manufacturing process is complex. For perfection in all shapes and formats, we combine the right technologies with a great deal of expertise on fillers and films, sealing processes and solutions for greater sustainability.

Projects and innovations with Harro Höfliger

Successful projects

Medical Technologies

Sustainable and safe packaging of vials

Saving resources and avoiding waste: On a new line from Harro Höfliger, Recipharm packages vials without plastic.

Pharmaceutical Technologies

Secure cartoning of double bags

Klocke Pharma-Service and Harro Höfliger have worked together for more than 25 years. A few months ago, they implemented the third line for packaging double bags, based on a MKL horizontal cartoner.