Stelmi sets up elastomer tech centre

ERJ staff report (DS)

Paris -- Stelmi has founded a technical centre at the company's head office in France, near the Roissy Charles de Gaulle international Airport in the Paris region.

For nearly 50 years, Stelmi has been developing elastomer primary packaging closures for vials for antibiotics, lyophilisation, infusion, and diagnostics use, and for pre-filled syringes, constantly improving quality standards.

The company said the new unit includes a pilot line that entirely reproduces the production process of the components in elastomer and analytical laboratories. Thus, said Stelmi, the new technical center will expand the research and development resources, approach new issues with the support of universities and specialist testing laboratories, trial new products in pre-production, and provide rapid-response customer assistance.

The examination of the interactions between content and container is a major issue in the choice of a pharmaceutical closure made of elastomer, which requires a true partnership between the pharmaceutical laboratory and the component supplier. Stelmi's new technical centre will have the resources to carry out compatibility studies and to find effective solutions from an organisation that guarantees the greatest confidentiality.

The technical centre will have all the equipment to reproduce all phases of the manufacturing process at the smallest scale, from weighing raw materials to packing in a clean room. This will make it possible to perform pre-production measures and to characterise all the production parameters, in order to integrate new products into factories faster and more logically.

Stelmi describes itself as a major player on the market for components made of elastomers for the pharmaceutical industry.

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Press release from Stelmi