Uhlmann Pac-Systeme

Uhlmann Pac-Systeme is a German industrial company focused on machinery and integrated systems for packaging pharmaceutical products. Founded in 1948, it is headquartered in Laupheim, Baden-Württemberg. The company says it serves international pharmaceutical companies, generic-drug manufacturers and contract packagers, supplying equipment and related support for packaging medicines in blisters, bottles, trays and cartons. Its official description positions it as a system provider rather than solely a machine maker: offerings include consultation, project management, implementation, services and digital solutions alongside packaging lines. Its equipment covers several stages and formats in pharmaceutical packaging. The company’s product scope includes blister machines for products such as tablets and capsules, cartoning systems, bottle packaging lines and end-of-line equipment. The German Wikipedia entry also describes lines for parenteral products and equipment for packing cartons into shipping cases and stacking goods on pallets. The official site highlights traceability and track-and-trace needs, sustainable packaging, and packaging for parenteral medicines as areas of expertise and application. Uhlmann Pac-Systeme is part of the Uhlmann Group, which the company describes as a family business. The group’s holding company was established in October 2019 to provide strategic management and pool appropriate central functions. Group-level operations extend beyond packaging machinery, while Uhlmann Pac-Systeme remains identified as the group’s pharmaceutical packaging specialist. The company reports approximately 1,700 employees and says its international support network includes 17 companies and more than 40 agencies. The company’s current positioning combines pharmaceutical-industry specialization with complete-line integration, service and digital capabilities. It presents quality, efficiency and availability as performance priorities, and describes sustainability as a strategic concern involving resource conservation, social responsibility, integrity, supply-chain management and long-lasting customer value. Its official materials also refer to certifications in quality, environmental and energy management, among other areas. The evidence supplied does not establish a public listing, a precise revenue figure, or a current individual chief executive specifically for Uhlmann Pac-Systeme; Matthias Niemeyer is identified in the sustainability material as CEO of the Uhlmann Group.

Uhlmann Pac-Systeme traces its origins to 1948, when founder Josef Uhlmann began producing precision molds for suppositories. The company’s beginnings were therefore connected to pharmaceutical products and their manufacture, before it developed into a machinery business. The supplied German Wikipedia entry describes this first period as a small craft operation. A turning point came in 1963, when Josef Uhlmann’s son Friedrich joined the company. According to the German Wikipedia account, Friedrich transformed his father’s workshop into a mechanical-engineering company. Its specialization became machinery for packaging and cartoning pharmaceuticals, including products packed in foil or aluminum blisters and medicines in bottles. The company’s later portfolio expanded to cover different packaging formats and production stages, including blister machines, cartoners, bottle lines and end-of-line systems. After Friedrich Uhlmann’s death in 1994, his wife Hedwig Uhlmann continued the family-business tradition, according to the same account. Their son Tobias Uhlmann became chairman of Uhlmann’s supervisory board on 1 April 2007. The supplied sources do not provide a fuller account of subsequent ownership changes or a complete chronology of product launches, so those details are not inferred here. The company grew into an international supplier to pharmaceutical companies, generic-drug manufacturers and contract packagers. Its present-day offer is broader than machinery alone: official materials describe consultation, project management, implementation, services and digital solutions as parts of its integrated system offering. Uhlmann identifies packaging in blisters, bottles and cartons as a core capability, while its homepage also highlights trays, parenteral products, traceability and sustainable packaging. The official key-figures page reports 1,700 employees, a Laupheim headquarters and an international support structure of 17 companies and more than 40 agencies. In October 2019, the Uhlmann Group established a holding company, described by the company as a GmbH & Co. KG. Its stated role includes strategic management of the group and pooling appropriate central functions. Uhlmann Pac-Systeme is part of that group, which official materials describe as a family business. The group’s sustainability and climate strategy applies to Uhlmann Pac-Systeme as well as the wider group. The company frames its present development around resource conservation, social responsibility, integrity, carefully managed supply chains and durable customer value, and describes its machinery, services and digital solutions as supporting pharmaceutical packaging across the product life cycle.

• 2019

  Uhlmann Group establishes its holding company in October

• 2007

  Tobias Uhlmann becomes chairman of the supervisory board on 1 April

• 1994

  After Friedrich Uhlmann’s death, Hedwig Uhlmann continues the family-business tradition

• 1963

  Friedrich Uhlmann joins and develops the workshop into a mechanical-engineering company

• 1948

  Josef Uhlmann begins producing precision molds for suppositories

A specialist, integrated-system supplier for pharmaceutical packaging, combining packaging machinery and lines with consultation, project management, services and digital solutions.

• Blister machines and lines

  Equipment for pharmaceutical products, including solid-dose medicines and parenteral products.

• Cartoners

  Systems for packing blisters, bottles, vials, bags, tubes and other pharmaceutical products into cartons, with options for product inserts.

• End-of-line packaging systems

  Equipment described in the supplied German Wikipedia entry includes banding and wrapping machines, case packers and palletizers.

• Bottle packaging lines

  Pharmaceutical lines for filling tablets or capsules into bottles, with functions including desiccant feeding and bottle sealing.

• Group sustainability and climate strategyOther

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