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Germany-based packaging company Gerresheimer is celebrating optimising clean room production at one of its Brazilian plants.

The company’s three Brazilian production facilities in the Sao Paolo region collectively manufacture several hundreds of millions of plastic containers and closures for the medical market every year.

Gerresheimer states it began to modernise its clean rooms in 2015, with the injection moulding clean room optimisation project at its Butanta plant beginning last July. As soon as it was finished, the company says it started the next project to modernise the injection blow moulding clean room at the same plant.

Jens Friis, Vice President Europe & Latin America at Gerresheimer Plastic Packaging said: “Optimising our clean rooms has enabled us to achieve considerable improvements in production quality and we’re now setting new standards in the pharmaceutical packaging market. The entire plant is profiting from the project, and our employees now enjoy vastly improved working conditions.”

The plant in Butanta has also had a new air-conditioning system installed, states the company.

Gerresheimer has three Brazilian pharmaceutical plastic packaging plants in Butanta, Embu and Cotia with a total production space of 28,000 square metres.

Gerresheimer currently has 11,000 employees worldwide and has over 40 production facilities in Europe, North and South America and Asia. The company has annual sales of €1.4bn.