Achema news: Fette building €12m facility

At Achema, Fette Compacting has announced plans for a new €12m customer facility in Schwarzenbek, Germany.

Fette's parent company, LMT Group, has invested in the customer center in Schwarzenbek, which will be opened in September.

The group also announced that in Nanjing, China, planning has begun for a new building that will enable Fette to double its production capacity in that country.

This new facility is scheduled to commence operation by the end of 2017 at the latest.

Fette says it is building the new plant to answer increasing demand from “pharmerging markets” in rapidly growing, newly industrialised countries, such as Brazil, China and India.

The company has already installed over 350 P2020 and P3030 machines, which are produced in Nanjing, around the world.

Fette Compacting presented the youngest member of the P Series at the China International Pharmaceutical Machinery Exposition (CIPM) in May.

Speaking about the investments, Olaf J. Müller, CEO of the LMT Group and Managing Director of Fette Compacting said: “Efficiency in production is and remains the decisive issue for our customers.

“Under the guiding principle of operational excellence, users in the pharmaceutical industry are increasingly shifting their attention from the machine to the overall tableting process and the skills of their employees.

"That is why we continue to invest in our infrastructure and the facilities for training employees and customers.”