Automated pharmaceutical packaging lines
Each system manages the entire packaging cycle, from primary to secondary, ensuring regulatory compliance, complete batch traceability and integration with quality systems.
In the pharmaceutical sector, packaging is not a simple wrapping operation. Each product must be precisely dosed, placed in the primary container, sealed, labelled and packaged in the secondary container in compliance with strict regulations and validation procedures. For this reason, automating the process with a pharmaceutical packaging line means guaranteeing consistent quality, eliminating contamination and ensuring the traceability of every single pack.
Sytec designs assembly and packaging lines dedicated to the pharmaceutical sector. The stations handle dosing, filling, sealing, labelling, serialization, cartoning and secondary packaging operations for creams, ointments, gels, powders and pharmaceutical liquids, including a dedicated ointment filling line for semi-solid products. In particular, the lines integrate weight control systems, automated visual inspection and seal integrity verification on every pack produced.
In addition, Sytec’s proprietary software manages the entire production flow and enables full integration with the customer’s PLC and MES/ERP systems, ensuring complete traceability of every packaged batch and compliance with the serialization requirements set by international regulations. Sytec’s pharmaceutical packaging systems are designed to the customer’s specifications and tested in-house at the facility before delivery.
In the pharmaceutical sector, the challenge is not just to package quickly. It is to ensure that every pack is compliant, traced and validated. Sytec approaches every pharmaceutical packaging line project starting from the customer’s real product: type, format, dosage, reference regulations and required throughput define the architecture of the system. The industrial robots of the leading global manufacturers are integrated by Sytec for pick and place, handling and cartoning operations, with particular attention to the hygienic management of components in contact with the product.
Years of experience
Specialized staff
m² production facility
Packs per minute
Weight control and seal integrity in line
Product formats handled on the same line
Minutes for automatic format changeover
The values shown refer to typical configurations and may vary according to the specifications of the customer’s project and product.
Sytec’s pharmaceutical packaging lines are designed to operate in controlled production environments, with automatic management of rejects and non-conformities and native integration with the customer’s quality systems. In addition, all packaging data is automatically acquired and archived to ensure complete traceability of every batch produced and compliance with validation procedures.
Sytec’s pharmaceutical packaging lines are not isolated systems. They connect upstream with assembly and filling lines, such as the ointment filling line for semi-solid products, where primary and secondary packaging take place in sequence with the preceding production stages. Downstream, the automatic palletizing systems complete the end of line without interruptions in the production flow.
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Sytec is an industrial automation company with over 40 years of experience in designing custom systems for the medical and pharmaceutical sector. In addition to packaging lines, the company designs and builds automatic blister machines, lines for dialysis filters, syringes and heparin, inhalers, vials and bottles and catheters and infusion sets. Thanks to ISO 9001:2015 certification, every system meets the quality standards required by pharmaceutical manufacturers.
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