Gerresheimer opens its first Development Center in China

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Gerresheimer AG, an internationally leading partner to the pharma
and healthcare industry, has opened a new Development Center for
medical plastic systems in Dongguan City, China. Now Gerresheimer has
three such centers in Wackersdorf (Germany), Peachtree City (United
States of America) and now in China.

"Our Development Centers are important USPs that allow us to offer
our customers crucial added value. The new center in China ensures
that we can optimally meet the growing demand in the Asian market. In
future, we will have development operations in addition to local
production operations and we'll be collaborating closely with our
customers in China," explained Andreas Schütte, the Gerresheimer
Management Board member with responsibility for Plastics & Devices.

The team at the new Technical Competence Center (TCC) in China
will be implementing and managing large-scale projects independently.
Gerresheimer's three Development Centers around the world prepare
medical plastic systems such as insulin pens, inhalers, lancets and
auto-injectors for industrialization. All crucial interdisciplinary
functions up to a product's series production stage are performed
there. The local projects implemented at the Development Centers in
collaboration with the other sites include series design,
manufacturing equipment engineering, process development, project
management, quality planning, tool making, automation technology,
production initiation and pre-series production.

At its Dongguan City production facility, Gerresheimer has been
manufacturing drug delivery devices such as inhalers and lancets for
diabetes sufferers, and infusion products, since 2006.

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