Excellence in Packaging
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it is Latin and means “the best” Our goal: We strive to be the best… in all respects. By fully identifying with your goals, Optima cultivates a strong sense of commitment towards you – the customer. This puts us in a position to design and manufacture production, filling and packaging machinery that is absolutely tuned to your specific needs and requirements.

Contents 04 – 05 Milestones 06 – 07 Globally active, yet close to the Customer Global Service Nonwovens Care   Home Care   Infant Care   Personal   End-of-Line Automation Consumer   Food   Chemical   Cosmetic Technique   Filtration Pharma Filling   Sterile and Containment Technology   Isolation   Nonsterile Filling Drying Systems (FD)   Freeze Diagnostics / Life Science   Clinical Life Science   Lane-processing Systems   ImmuCoat® Coating Lines 26 Environmental Protection Management System 27 Environmental Protection 28 Demographic Development 29 Sustainable Business Practice 30 Contact

Milestones Milestones Milestones 1922 Optima Maschinenfabrik is founded by Otto Bühler 1945 Large portions of the company building are destroyed in the last few months of World War II. Dr. Max Bühler, son of Otto Bühler, rebuilds the company immediately after the War. 1950 the first time, Optima develops and markets packaging machines for food and For pharmaceutical products 1974 First fully automated bag filling machine for diapers 1980 Hans Bühler joins the company 1984 Exports exceed 80 % 1992 Acquisition of Inova Pac-Systeme lays the foundation for setting up the pharma sector 1998...

Globally active Global service Globally active Globally active, yet close to the customer A distinguishing trait of the family enterprise, presently in hands of the third generation, is a stable and robust growth. Still, Optima maintains its flexibility and customer proximity as core characteristics. The company employs a staff of over 1,700 at numerous locations all over the world. Optima technologies are in worldwide demand: The outstanding export share of more than 80 % also reflects the massive innovative degree of our production, filling, and packaging machinery. Global service Global...

Worldwide Presence. Subsidiaries Germany OPTIMA packaging group GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall OPTIMA nonwovens GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall OPTIMA consumer GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall OPTIMA life science GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall OPTIMA pharma GmbH, Schwaebisch Hall OPTIMA pharma GmbH, Gladenbach–Mornshausen METALL + PLASTIC GmbH, Radolfzell–Stahringen Customer service by our subsidiary / agency USA Mexico Brazil UK France Italy China South Korea Japan India Malaysia OPTIMA Machinery Corporation, Green Bay, Wisconsin OPTIMA packaging machines S.A. de C.V., Mexico City OPTIMA do Brasil Máquinas de Embalagem...

Compact hygiene Since 1970, Optima Nonwovens has been one of the industry’s trendsetters, indisputably exerting a powerful impact on the improvement of automation processes. This tradition lives on in each and every new packaging project. Optima lines are designed to serve highly specific requirements. Optimized implementation of specific features such as output, machine reliability, degree of automation and marketing at the point of sale are self-evident, and manufacturers directly profit from the benefits of these innovative, yet technically mature machines.

Perfect packaging systems: Paper hygiene articles Indispensable: Efficiency for sanitary products A step ahead: Systematically checked and ready for shipment There are countless different paper hygiene products for home use. Consequently, the sector needs highly flexible machine solutions. Packaging lines from Optima Nonwovens cover all standard formats – very often from small to large-size packages with one machine type, allowing our customers to fully benefit from the cost savings and leading design of this modular approach to machine engineering. The machine program of Optima Nonwovens...

Consumer Consumer Consumer Consumer Particular demands? We welcome the challenge! Every day, staggering amounts of food, cosmetic, and chemical products are dosed, filled, and packaged… …many of them with machinery manufactured by Optima Consumer, and for good reasons: Core benefits include machine flexibility, high output, product protection, and process safety. Optima Consumer offers technologies to make dosing, filling, and packaging still easier and more safe and efficient. Providing everything from starter models to complete lines – plus handling and assembly functions.

Packaging technologies to taste Powerful dosing and packaging technologies for chemicals Trendsetter in the cosmetic sector Specialist for filtration products Optima Consumer is your reliable partner for dosing, filling, and packaging of all food products - from dry to liquid. Dry and liquid chemicals require specific dosing equipment. The systems of Optima Consumer satisfy the most diversified requirements: product protection, high output, and filling precision – guaranteeing an ideal solution that weighs and combines all aspects. The law of the cosmetics market dictates that constantly...

Experience safety Optima Pharma has over 25 years experience in sterile filling and capping systems and in the challenging field of lyophilization, isolation, and containment technology. Our comprehensive range of machines offer focused solutions to manufacturers of human, veterinary, and therapeutic medicines, as well as for products and applications in biotechnology, life sciences, and clinical diagnostics. The highly flexible line concepts integrate fill technologies for liquids and powders with closing technologies for nearly every imaginable application. Isolators and E-beam tunnels as...

Sterile filling to the highest standards Isolator technology – for maximum protection of product and operator Non-sterile products: Assured diversity Safety all the way – the benefits of lyophilization Optima Pharma filling lines meet all your output requirements – from laboratory or clinical trial batches to long run, high speed campaigning. Sterility guaranteed. Isolators can be integrated with all types of pharmaceutical processing equipment including aseptic liquid/powder filling machines, E-beam tunnels, depyrogenation tunnels and lyophilization systems. Whether compact monoblock...