Folding boxes: Pharmaceutical compliant product inspection using checkweighers

Quality assurance for a huge variety of products

Headquartered in Tokyo, Astellas Pharma is one of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical manufacturers. Meppel (Netherlands) is home to one of the production facilities of the researchbased drug company, which is one of the market leaders in Germany, particularly for its therapeutic products in urology and transplant medicine. All packaging lines in Meppel use end­of­line checkweighers for the quality assurance of pharmaceutical products packaged in folding boxes.