Glatt Does Not Just Sell Machines, We Provide Unique Solutions To Customers' Requirements

Mirko Nowak, Corporate Marketing, Glatt represents part of the third generation of the family-owned business started by his grandfather Werner Glatt in 1954. On a recent visit to India for PMEC 2018, Nowak, Thomas Hofmaier, Head of Business Unit Process Technology Pharma, Glatt and Anuvrat Singal, Executive Director, Glatt India Engineering spoke to Viveka Roychowdhury on their launches at PMEC 2018 and the trends they foresee for 2019 and beyond

What was the focus at PMEC India 2018? Thomas Hofmaier, Head of Business Unit Process Technology Pharma, Glatt:

This was Glatt’s sixth year at PMEC India. Our vision, strategy approach is that each year we show what is new in technology from a global point of view. Not only for India because we believe that the world has changed a lot so there should be no differentiation at all between the technology used in different countries, be it in the US, China or Germany.

So we bring new technology to this show each year and communicate this to our customers here in India.

This year we saw the heaviest attraction was for the TwinPro technology, which allows the fusion of two processes into one single machine: the classical high shear granulation line where the granules are made, followed by the drying, typically in a fluid bed dryer.

This unique process fusion unites our decades of process experience in high shear granulation with pioneering expertise in fluidised bed drying for the first time. Customers benefit: Removing wet sieving and product transfer eliminates a critical step. The result: significantly less process time and easier cleaning. Removing a complete machine unit also reduces the installation, building and running expenses while maintaining excellent function. So both quality and performance have been significantly improved in our TwinPro technology.

This (the TwinPro technology) is one big invention we worked on for five years which we launched at ACHEMA 2018 in Germany and we were proud to show it immediately at PMEC India 2018, for customers who are interested in getting high performance, better quality out of the system.