Technologies and know-how
Web processing
Integrated productivity and process reliability
Web processing is the key process for manufacturing multilayer products from roll material, as well as for primary and secondary packaging. Why should you put your trust in modular machine technology from Harro Höfliger here? On one hand, because this flexible foundation allows for the production of a wide range of variants and can be scaled for all production stages. And because we bring our all-round expertise to bear in handling and processing web material, on the other. Correct web tension, precise winding and unwinding, perfect contour cuts and punching quality, resource-efficient use of materials: Just a few of the factors that contribute to productivity and process reliability for your products.
Our expertise
Precisely moving matrix plasters – transdermal therapeutic systems (TTS) – to the downstream station for packaging in film pouches.
Reliably picking up and placing wound dressings onto the carrier film using a vacuum gripper.
Laminating and contour punching wound dressings, followed by pulling off and winding punching waste.
Packaging of wound dressings in individual pouches, followed by sealing.
Perfectly aligned process steps for the production of ostomy systems: sealing, punching, and transferring with pick-and-place for the packaging process.
Precisely transferring pre-assembled transdermal systems onto the substrate.
Exactly dosing the API onto the polymer matrix of oral films.
Coating film strips for ODF (orodispersible film) with the API and drying them before further processing.
Primary packaging of ODF in pouches and closing with heat-sealing technology.
Deflection rollers and exactly aligned web-edge control ensure consistent web tension and reliable material processing.
Perfectly aligned system solutions
In focus: Your product
Manufacturing wound dressings or transdermal therapeutic systems, producing high-performance laundry detergent combo packs with patented water sealing, primary packaging in four-side sealed pouches. Your product defines the process. But what if no solution exists yet for your complex task? Then our Engineering & Innovation Services team further develops existing technologies during the testing phases for market release. Or it comes up with a new idea and technically implements it in the best possible way.
Oral and buccal films
Orodispersible and mucoadhesive buccal film strips – ODF and MBF – dissolve in the mouth and deliver APIs into the body via the oral mucosa. For pharmaceutical-grade production, we apply our expertise throughout the process, from coating to primary packaging.
Projects and innovations with Harro Höfliger
Successful projects
Medical Technologies
Smart patches equipped with on board technology
Mobile medical monitoring by means of a smart device: Dressings with small sensors and wireless technology are comfortable to wear and accurately record patients' data.
Consumer Technologies
Future technology: Water sealing of pouches
Water-soluble pouches, also known as pods or tabs, consist of PVOH (polyvinyl alcohol) film filled with detergent or cleaning agent. The pre-dosed products offer the consumer a convenient application, which is especially safe thanks to water sealing.
Pharmaceutical Technologies
High-speed line for TTS/TDS products
When it comes to the production of patches for the treatment of asthma and pain Nipro Patch relies on Harro Höfliger’s many years of expertise in web converting as well as in transdermal systems.