Korsch AG

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Korsch AG
legal form Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
founding 1919
Seat Berlin-Reinickendorf
management Stephan Mies, board member
Number of employees 260 (2018)
sales EUR 69 million (2018)
Branch Mechanical engineering , engineering
Website www.korsch.de
Status: 2018

The Korsch AG is a medium-sized, family-owned engineering company with headquarters in Berlin. In addition to the production of standard tablet presses, the unlisted company has specialized in special solutions in the field of tableting for the pharmaceutical , food , chemical and technical industries.

history

Emil Korsch founded the company in Berlin in 1919. In 1934 the first self-developed tablet press was produced, with which Bullrich salt was pressed in series .

In 1986 the company launched the Pharmapress PH 800, a special rotary machine for the pharmaceutical industry, which was the most powerful machine of its kind in the world with an output of more than one million tablets per hour. The Berlin-Brandenburg Innovation Prize was awarded for the development of this machine in the same year .

In 1997, a number of inventions were patented with which the effective forces of the pressure roller unit were removed from the base frame by means of a vibration-isolated carrier plate in order to enable low-noise pressing with very high pressing forces. This concept enabled a new type of machine frame with 360 ° access to the press room and the option of docking the press to a separate technology zone (TTW Technologies).

In 2002, a process was developed for the pharmaceutical companies Alza Corporation and Johnson & Johnson for the production of the Concerta oral osmotic system (OROS) -based prolonged-release tablet , which is used to treat attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Pressing a 5-layer tablet was realized.

The MFP system was developed in 2009. It enables a rotary press to be quickly converted to different 1-shift, 2-shift and 3-shift configurations and is therefore highly flexible for frequent production changes.

In 2013 Korsch developed a process for inserting foils in tablet presses, with which the continuous production of multi-layer shell core tablets (e.g. for microchips in tablets) is possible.

Today the company is based in the Borsigwalde part of the Reinickendorf district of Berlin. It is one of the world's leading manufacturers of tablet presses and is considered a hidden champion .

Products and services

  • Tablet presses ( R&D , scale-up , high-speed production, multi-layer technology, containment and wash-in-place technology)
  • Technical rotary presses, double and triple rotary presses
  • Data analysis systems
  • Process solutions (tableting studies , feasibility studies , OEE )
  • Technology solutions (production room design, system integration )
  • Software solutions (press force monitoring, data acquisition and analysis systems)

Korsch generates the majority of its sales with presses for the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, presses are also produced for confectionery, food and battery manufacturers.

Locations

  • Production site
    • Germany Berlin)
  • Foreign subsidiaries
    • Korsch America, Inc. (Boston, USA)
    • Korsch India Pvt. Ltd. (Mumbai, India)
    • PT Korsch Asia Pacific (Tangerang, Indonesia)
    • Korsch Switzerland GmbH (Wangen, Switzerland)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c balance sheet as of December 31, 2018. In: bundesanzeiger.de. December 27, 2019, accessed January 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gilbert S. Banker, Juergen Siepmann, Christopher Rhodes (Eds.): Modern Pharmaceutics - Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences , CRC Press, 2002, p. 481
  3. ↑ Pressure roller unit for rotary presses, patent DE19705092C1 from January 31, 1997. In: depatisnet.dpma.de. German Patent and Trademark Office, March 26, 1998, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Rotary press, patent DE19705094C1 from January 31, 1997. In: depatisnet.dpma.de. German Patent and Trademark Office, July 9, 1998, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Philip Siekman: A Long Way From Tiny Time Pills Now part of J & J, Alza shows why no one is better at devising ingenious new ways to get drugs into the body. In: money.cnn.com. FORTUNE Magazine, July 21, 2003, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Rotary tablet press, patent EP2110231A3 from April 16, 2009. In: worldwide.espacenet.com. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Rotary press, especially for the production of tablets, patent DE102009020196A1 from May 7, 2009. In: depatisnet.dpma.de. German Patent and Trademark Office, November 11, 2010, accessed June 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Device and method for inserting foils in tablet presses, patent EP2823799B1 from 07/11/2013. In: worldwide.espacenet.com. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Jens Kohrs: Korsch forms everything into tablets. In: morgenpost.de. February 4, 2004, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ M. Hoffmann and E. Haacke: Hidden Champions: Competition of the Neighbors. In: handelsblatt.com. May 9, 2007, accessed February 1, 2020 .