ACG Worldwide, India, and KORSCH AG, GERMANY, announce their JV to jointly develop and produce tablet compression systems in India. The equipment will be both advanced and affordable and with full regulatory compliance and pharma documentation. The manufacture will be implemented through ACG-PAM, the Mumbai-based flagship engineering company of ACG Worldwide.
The JV will expand the global footprint of both partners. Tabletting machines are the most vitally needed equipments in the pharma industry.
KORSCH is a world leader in tablet presses and brings nine decades of experience and tradition to the new joint venture. ACG-PAM’S strengths include a large highly skilled workforce, mass production facilities, and several thousand installations worldwide, especially pharma capsule fillers.
Mr. Karan Singh, Director of ACG-PAM, remarked, “the JV products are expected to storm the world pharma markets. For the first time a global brand name and advanced German design and reliability in tablet presses will be partnered by experience and affordable costs in India.”
Till the new models are established, ACG-PAM will continue to offer their existing model (LEGACY) with lifetime service. The JV will have the advantage of established worldwide sales channels and offices of both partners.
Said Mr. Stephan Mies, Managing Director of KORSCH “we are delighted to find a partner with a global outlook that understands how to successfully manufacture complex equipment in India. ACG shares with us the same values – quality, innovation, customer service and fair play.”
The first JV machine will be exhibited at the CPHI/P-MEC exhibition at Mumbai in December 2009 and commercial production will commence from January 2010.
ACG Worldwide has a record of successful manufacturing partnerships including with Glatt, Alcan and Theegarten Pactec of Germany, Honeywell of USA and Proditec of France.
ACG Worldwide offers a complete range of pharma solid dosage equipments and consumables, including fluid bed processors, capsule fillers, tablet presses, blister packing and cartoning machines, case packers, tablet tooling and camera inspection systems. The group has also installed the world’s 2nd largest manufacturing capacity of two-piece empty capsules and a wide range of blister packing films.
PAM USA LLC @ Pack Expo, 2009 Las Vegas, USA
Pam-Pac a member of ACG Worldwide, participated in Pack Expo 2009 exhibition in Las Vegas USA during 5-7 October, 2009. Pack Expo is the biggest show. VMC 70 was on display. A team of four members from ACG attended the exhibition.
ACG launches office in China
ACG China Pvt Ltd
1607 Guoli Mansion,
1465 Beijing RdShanghai 200040
Tel No.
: + 86 21 5574 0234
Fax No.
: + 86 21 5212 0042
ACG-Pharmapack wins Febrafarma Packaging material award in Brazil
Pampac Wins IPMMI Award for Innovative System
Pampac Machines Pvt Ltd, a member company of ACG Worldwide, recently earned an award and encomiums from the Institute of Packaging Machinery Manufacturers of India (IPMMI) for innovation in the design and performance of its Fully Automatic Cartoning Machine.
The memento and certificate of recognition were presented on the 20th of November, 2008, during the Exhibitors’ Nite of the International PackTech India 2008 occasion. The machine from Pampac Machines Pvt Ltd stood out for its performance in the category of Machinery for Total System Packaging. The event was held at Goregaon in Mumbai and was attended by a host of big players in the field.
Pampac Machines Pvt Ltd designed and developed an exclusive system, as a special application in response to the market needs. The award-winning system transfers filled and sealed sachets from a sachet-filling machine directly to a cartoning machine. This avoids contamination of the sachet and its contents by human contact. It also ensures that finished goods are not tampered with, so that customer safety and product quality are guaranteed. This systemcan be integrated with the any horizontal cartoning machine for sachet transfer.
Automatic link up with multi-track vertical sachet packing machine
Can transfer up to 400 sachets per minute
Has a facility for counting and collating up to 10 sachets per carton
Dynamic system with continuous operation for high speeds
Has a no sachets – no carton facility
Pampac has always been a forerunner in the field of packaging and cartoning solution providers, offering comprehensive customer-specific applications. It stays ahead of the times with its passion for innovation and excellence.
Annual Medical Check-up
The Annual Medical check up for its employees was conducted at Pam Glatt on February 9th & 10th 2009.
At Scitech Centre it was organized on 19th & 20th of February 2009, around one hundred twenty five employees availed the facility.
ACPL - Kandivali had its Annual Medical check up done for all its employees on 8th, 9th January & 11th February.
Two hundred eighty employees were benefitted with the facility.
The Work Life Balance workshop
A workshop on work life balance was also conducted at Scitech Centre on 30th January 2009 by Ms. Jalpa Joshi, a trained Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Corporate Trainer & Consultant.
The workshop was thought provoking and focused on the need and ways of balancing work and life.
All the participants received the new initiative very positively and communicated that they will be interested in being part of more such sessions.
The workshop was attended by employees of PAM, ACPL - K, Scitech Centre and Pamglatt.
ACG Worldwide participates in Supply Side West, Las Vegas
ACG Worldwide participated in Supply Side West 2008 exhibition in Las Vegas, USA during 23 - 24thOctober 2008. The USA subsidiary companies, Pam USA LLC & Universal Capsules LLC participated in the exhibition. On display were various engineering & consumable products. A team of eight members from ACG attended the exhibition. The event was a great success in terms of brand-building & business generation.
ACG Worldwide participates in Pack Expo, Chicago
Pam Pac, a member of ACG Worldwide, participated for the first time in Pack Expo 2008 exhibition in Chicago USA during 9 - 13 November 2008. Pack Expo is the biggest packaging show in North America. Vertical cartoner - VP 120 was displayed. A team of four members from ACG attended the exhibition. The exhibition was an excellent medium to make our presence felt in the packaging industry in the USA.
ACG Worldwide participates in AAPS, Atlanta
ACG Worldwide participated in AAPS 2008 exhibition in Atlanta, USA during 17th - 19thNovember 2008. Universal Capsules LLC & Pampac participated in the exhibition. On display were consumable products & the lab-model blister packing machine “Miniblis” from Pam Pac. A team of eight members from ACG attended the exhibition. The event was a great success in terms of brand-building in the Pharmaceutical R & D fraternity in the USA.
ACG worldwide participates in Southpack 2008
Pam & Pam Pac participated in a Non-Pharma Exhibition , SouthPack 2008, held at Chennai from 27th- 29th June 2008.
The Machines displayed were, AT- Pac from Pam Pac & DCW from Pam.
The response was over-whelming for this exhibition.
PAM India Wins the prestigious Febrafarma ‘Machine’ Award in Brazil..
Today is a moment of pride for India and for ACG Worldwide. The last 5 years of continual efforts in the Brazilian market has earned PAM, (a member of ACG Worldwide) and their agent, Almapal the most prestigious award for the "Best Capsule filling machinery supplier".
The award was presented by the Brazilian Pharmaceutical Industry Federation (Febrafarma) with the FCE Pharma where PAM Pharmaceuticals Mumbai was honoured. This is, also, for the first time that an Indian company is being honoured for excellence in this highly competitive by high technology area.
The other nominations for this category were IMA and MG2.
To everyone's surprise, BOSCH did not even figure in the nominees list.
The award was based on voting by pharmaceutical companies in Brazil based on their actual experience with the vendor and the product. Febrafarma had derived a nominations list for the “Quality Febrafarma Award”, which happened during FCE Pharma from which the winners were announced.
ACG worldwide participates in propakasia 2008
"ACG Worldwide, through its four group companies, Pam, Pampac, Associated Capsules & Packshield, participated in Propak Asia 2008 exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand during 11 – 14 June 2008.
The range of products which were displayed in the stall were - Blister packing machine BP 102, Cartoning machine AT Pac, Candy Wrapping Machine FPH2, Check Weigher DCW 1000, Capsules & Packaging films."
Aclar training seminar at Scitech - April 1, 2008
A Sales Training Seminar for ACG Sales Team was organized by Packshield in association with Honeywell on April 1, 2008 at SciTech Centre.
The training presentations were delivered by Mr. Daniel Nott and Mr. Walter Grupp from Honeywell.
The objective of this programme was to encourage the ACG sales team to promote Aclar as a blister packaging material.
The programme was divided into technical and commercial aspects of selling Aclar. A detailed presentation as made by Mr. Grupp on technical features of Aclar such as its properties , thermoforming parameters and usage criteria . Honeywell explained about their Sales Tools such as Value Calculator which help in communicating the value proposition to a potential customer of Aclar. Participants also learned about Barrier Calculator which is another good Aclar selling tool from Honeywell.
About 70 delegates participated in Training Programme and the response was good.A written test was also conducted at the end of programme to evaluate the result of the training .
The second largest segment at interpack PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2008 – packaging materials and packaging – also drew plenty of attention. ACG @ Interpack 2008:
ACG Worldwide had a 200 sq. mtr stall in Hall no 6. The location of the stall was a good one as it was near one of the entrance of hall no. 6.The stall had a 3 meeting rooms with a seating arrangement of 6 in each
The products on display were as follows:
i Empty Hard Capsules from ACPL which were displayed in elegantly made 14 capsule-shaped containers with light focussing on them ii Packaging films – Barrier & Flexible packaging films from Packshield were displayed as flowing rolls from a height of 4 meters giving the films a greater visibility iii Dies & Punches from Ajas were displayed elegantly on an acrylic stand suspended using tension mounted wires. iv Machines from Pam – Case Packer, Legend 2500, Legacy 6100 & Fluidocap FS machine from Nokasa, Japan v Machines from Pampac – Tropac & Miniblis
The stall had 2 big seamless graphics explaining the whole gamut of ACG Products. This was also the trend seen in most of the stalls which were theme based with not more than 2 – 3 graphics.
ACG Worldwide participated in Interphex USA, an
exhibition held in Philadelphia, from 26th - 28th March
2008, displaying the Encapsulator AF40T.
The exhibition had visitors from USA, Canada, Mexico and
Europe.
ACG Worldwide, through its engineering companies, participated in the second Nepal Pharma Expo exhibition organized by “Association of Pharmaceutical Producers of Nepal” (APPON).
It was held in Kathmandu on 16 – 17 February 2008.
ACG Worldwide stall was one of the biggest and the busiest stalls in the exhibition with the AF 40 T machine in operation as the main attraction of the whole show. We had displayed AF 40 T & Mini-Glatt, the lab model FBE.
A team of 5 ACG personnel had an excellent opportunity to meet the bigwigs of the small Pharma fraternity in Nepal, which consists of around 30 companies.
Exhibition Name: Packing & Printing Exhibition 08, Teran, Iran.
Dates: 29th Jan -01st Feb 08
M/c Exhibited: AF 40 T, Legacy 6100 & BP102
Response form customers:We could manage to get some good enquiries for Pam Pac Products & very few enquiries for Pam Products, since this show was totally dedicated to Packaging Machines.
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