Harro Höfliger - (All You Need)

Harro Höfliger is the all-round technology partner for the pharmaceutical industry and manufacturer of brand name products.

"We can do anything. Except speak proper German" is the tongue-in-cheek slogan of one of the image advertising campaigns commissioned by the federal state government of Baden-Württemberg.

This is intended to express that the people of Baden-Württemberg, well-known as meticulous workers and thinkers, are used to tackling even the most difficult tasks with an incredible drive and innovative energy. It is thus hardly remarkable that Greater Stuttgart, situated in the heart of Swabia, ranks amongst one of the richest business and innovative regions in Europe. Where global players such as Daimler-Benz, Porsche and Bosch have settled, the packaging sector has also established itself with several market-dominating companies.

Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH – a prime example of a Swabian entrepreneurship

Within the space of three decades, Harro Höfliger, the company's founder, was able to develop his sole trader business into a global player with 500 employees. While in the 1980's, the focus of the delivery scope was on packaging lines for the nutrition and luxury food industry, a strategic shift to production technologies for brand name products and, in particular, medical and pharmaceutical products took place in the 1990's. Today, five managing directors with separate areas of responsibility and flat hierarchy levels ensure the smooth handling of projects with complex order structures. For precisely this reason, the Höfliger customers value the direct contact and availability of decision-makers at the highest level as a major plus in the soft criteria of the company.

The newly set up Project Management system and Product Management guide customers over the complete duration of a project, from development through to delivery of the system, on a continuous basis. The increasing profits over the last few years – over €80 million in sales in 2007 alone – prove that this comprehensive concept is the correct course for success.

Specialised in the construction of custom machines tailored to the individual product and as a supplier of turnkey systems, Höfliger today fills an independent niche that serves several different markets. With engineering as the core competence, the Development Centre, in which today well over a hundred engineers are engaged in the research and development of new technologies and the implementation of complex processes in production systems, has also been expanded. A labour turnover rate of less than 1.5% over the whole company is proof of the fact that the corporate philosophy that is presented externally also functions internally.

The development of subsidiaries in the US, Switzerland, France, China and Russia consolidates the global alignment of the company in the markets with increasing sales forecasts. The client base includes corporations of distinction, such as AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CooperVision, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Reckitt Benckiser and many more.

The pharmaceutical alignment of a company at all events:

Recognising and using trends, or setting own trends is a feature that characterises an innovative company. A good example of this is the Pharma Service, which has been implemented at Höfliger since 2005. Here, the company chose an unusual path for an engineering concern. Technical surveys can be carried out under controlled environmental conditions and systems operated under pharmaceutical conditions in the company's own GMP rooms. The link between solid engineering and a pharmaceutical approach is thus established through new, practical options.

System solutions & customised solutions:

• Individual process solutions adapted to the customer's product/turnkey services

• Aseptic technology

• Machine engineering in GMP and validatable execution/cleanroom technology

• Blister & tablet technology

• Testing units for pharmaceutical solids and production machines for the manufacture of powder and liquid blisters

• Technology for inhalers & diagnostics

• Lines for the dosing and weighing of micronised powders, pasty products and liquid products

• Capsule & powder technology

• Powder filling machines for small scale series production/capsule filling and closing machines/powder analysis and dosing tests.

• Web converting technology

• Complete lines for the manufacture of transdermal systems, wound dressings, special patches and foil products such as: oral film strips, double bags for enteral nutrition, urine bags, diagnostic products etc.

• Packaging technology

• Modular packaging machines for wallet packs, horizontal cartoning machines, toploading machines for cartons and end-of-line applications.

With its slogan [ALL YOU NEED] Höfliger communicates their globally recognised expertise in machine construction and in process technology. Innovative changes are regarded as a matter of course in our company. It can therefore be considered as a logical consequence that Höfliger was once again voted as one of the TOP 100 companies in Germany last year. Our commitment to customer-orientation and unrestricted customer focus is reflected in the corporate image we present.


Contact:
Harro Höfliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH
Helmholtzstraße 4
71573 Allmersbach im Tal
Germany

Tel:  +49(0)7191-501-0
Fax: +49(0)7191-501-244
info@hoefliger.com

www.hoefliger.com