SCHOTT’s Mullheim manufacturing plant offers customised packaging solutions for pharmaceuticals such as highly sensitive biologics Pharmaceutical packaging facility expansion a  manufacturer of speciality glass and glass ceramics opened a new plant at its existing site in Mullheim Germany to meet the increasing demand for high-end polymer pharmaceutical packaging A ground-breaking ceremony for SCHOTT’s pharmaceutical packaging plant was held in February 2020 Construction was completed by the end of 2021 and the Mullheim plant was opened in May 2022 The project tripled the company’s production of pharmaceutical polymer containers and helped the company meet the need for pre-fillable sterile polymer syringes and individualised containers used in intravenous therapies emergency drugs and highly viscous medications It was developed as part of the company’s strategy to expand its polymer business and generated more than 100 jobs The pharmaceutical packaging plant is located at the company’s existing site in Mullheim Mullheim is located in the tri-national Upper Rhine Valley, a region that extends across Switzerland, France and Germany SCHOTT’s pharmaceutical packaging plant covers an area of 11,000m² and incorporates the latest cleanroom technology The facility is built to meet the highest standards and features advanced production lines and automation technology across all operations a pilot centre for rapid prototyping and development of innovations in packaging and an integrated area to support administrative needs are also part of the facility SCHOTT’s product range in the pharmaceutical packaging segment includes vials, syringes, ampoules, cartridges, and special articles made of tubing glass and polymer. The company also offers coated packaging and other special packaging solutions for highly sensitive drugs the product portfolio comprises StandardLine and TopLine The Mullheim site produces vials in the TopLine Product offerings in the syringes category include syriQ® sterile and syriQ bulk glass syringes and SCHOTT TopPac® ready-to-fill polymer syringes SCHOTT Cartridges BR and SCHOTT Cartridges Double Chamber The pre-fillable polymer syringes are specifically designed to securely store and facilitate the administration of drugs with high viscosity These syringes are suitable for a wide range of applications including emergency and intensive care medication The pharmaceutical containers manufactured by the company are made of TOPAS® cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) Mullheim is the company’s only German production site catering to the SCHOTT Pharma business unit The site serves as a global centre of competence for vials and currently employs more than 400 people It manufactures various specialised glass vials designed for storing vaccines or medications to treat diabetes and cancer SCHOTT is an international manufacturer of specialty glass and glass ceramics the company operates in business areas such as advanced optics The SCHOTT Pharma division is a major supplier of pharmaceutical packaging made from polymer and glass It manufactures around 13 billion syringes vials and cartridges a year and operates 16 production sites across Europe the Pharma division had revenues of €899m ($992m) SCHOTT opened another pharmaceutical packaging plant in Jinyun, China to expand its pharmaceutical business globally Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network There are currently no upcoming/recent events Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here The University of Pennsylvania Libraries and Gratz College are collaborating to ensure access to a significant collection of more than 15,000 items in manuscript and print that documents the musical life of synagogues in Germany and throughout Europe before the Holocaust “We are honored to partner with Gratz College to ensure perpetual access to this priceless collection,” says Brigitte Weinsteiger interim director of the Penn Libraries and Gershwind & Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections & Scholarly Communications “The project to digitize the Gratz-Mandell Jewish Music Collection and make it discoverable is important not only to Gratz and to Penn but to the world’s cultural and scholarly record.” The physical and forthcoming digital archive will join Penn’s collections in Jewish sound, including the Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive which is regarded as one of the most important resources in the world for the study of Jewish culture The Gratz-Mandell Collection includes manuscripts all collected by German-born cantor and collector Eric Mandell who resettled in Philadelphia in 1941 after fleeing the threat of Nazi expansion in Europe Seroussi was deeply invested in the future of the Mandell Collection immediately understanding the importance of both preserving the physical collection for the future and making it easier for scholars to access all over the world—so much so that he returned to Philadelphia on sabbatical to work with the collection Seroussi credits Gratz College President Zev Eleff with recognizing the magnitude of the collection’s importance and with giving Seroussi free reign to review Seroussi began championing the collection and advocating for this digitization partnership when he met the president emeritus of Gratz College “That’s when we started to play with the idea of moving [the collection] to Penn But at the time it was a faraway dream,” Seroussi says and Eleff are all excited by the possibilities for new scholarship that could come from this partnership In addition to the many avenues for study within the field of Jewish music the collection offers plenty of opportunity for wider cultural study This story is by Amanda Alexander. Read more at Penn Libraries the ambitious Dakar Greenbelt project seeks to create an extensive network of ecological infrastructure in and around the city to sustainably address environmental concerns and enhance urban life With support from David Gouverneur and Ellen Neises candidate Rob Levinthal in the Weitzman School of Design led two courses that included a field trip to Dakar that culminated in students presenting their visions for parts of the Greenbelt The new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology boasts adaptable laboratory spaces to support the dynamic needs of pioneering research The Karlsruhe-Basel railway line in Germany is being upgraded and expanded to increase capacity and operational efficiency is one of the oldest and most significant railway lines in Germany It is being expanded and upgraded to accommodate growing long-distance and freight traffic and clear bottlenecks Railway company Deutsche Bahn is developing the project which will expand the railway line to include four tracks along with upgraded infrastructure The project is being carried out under the Federal Railways’ network expansion programme and is part of the European infrastructure plan The Karlsruhe-Basel railway line runs between Karlsruhe in Germany and Basel in Switzerland It is a part of the European freight corridor between Rotterdam and Genoa under the Trans-European Networks The 170-year-old Rhine Valley railway line between Karlsruhe and Basel serves approximately 300 local which is more than its existing design capacity Trains in certain sections of the railway line slow down to 70km/h due to its age and outdated design The railway line upgrade will improve the speed of trains running on all tracks from 160km/h to between 200km/h and 250km/h It will help in shifting heavy goods traffic from road to rail it will reduce the travel time between Karlsruhe and Basel from 100 minutes to approximately 70 minutes it will enable the separation of slow and fast-moving rail traffic The Karlsruhe-Basel railway line upgrade includes work on a total of nine sections The first section covers 23.4km from Karlsruhe to Rastatt South while sections two to six cover 42km from Rastatt South to Offenburg and section seven covers 46.5km from Appenweier to Kenzingen Section eight covers 45.3km from Kenzingen to Mullheim while section nine covers 31.2km from Muellheim to Basel The line upgrade is being designed using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to provide effective operations facilitating cross-border traffic The Rastatt and Katzenberg tunnels are being constructed using sonic boom structures to decrease loud sounds when trains enter and exit tunnels Construction on section one commenced in 2013 and includes the development of the 5km-long Rastatt tunnel The subsections include Karlsruhe to Bashaide junction Bashaide to Otigheim and Otigheim to Rastatt South Sections two to six have been operational since 2004 and included the modernisation of ten stations and 81 bridges Two new long-distance tracks were constructed parallel to the existing railway line with an operating speed of 250km/h Renchen and Appenweier of the section were upgraded The planning for section seven began in 2016 Works include the modernisation of six stations and the construction of the 11km-long Offenburg tunnel which will be the longest tunnel of the railway line The section includes subsections from Appenweier to Hohberg and from Hohberg to Kenzingen Section eight includes the construction of two double-track lines for freight traffic including the Menger tunnel and the modernisation of 16 stations The subsections of this section include Kenzingen to Riegel/Malterdingen Bad Krozingen to Mullheim and Teningen to Buggingen Section nine includes the construction of the 9.3km-long Katzenberg Tunnel apart from new tracks and the modernisation of seven stations Haltingen-Weil am Rhein and Basel sections The project also includes the construction of five signal boxes 112 road and railway overpasses and 35 new renovation breakpoints The European Union provided $338.9m in funding for the project under the Connecting Europe Facility funding programme Engineering services provider KREBS+KIEFER is providing noise-related investigations and industrial vibration protection for the project Engineering company ZPP Ingenieure provides planning and design work services using BIM offered planning services related to general technical equipment planning Engineering company SSF provided the design of the ballastless track for the Katzenberg tunnel Software company ProVI offered basic evaluation design planning and approval planning services for the Appenweier-Hohberg section Planning company OBERMEYER is creating a BIM inventory model and planning for the project A joint venture of construction companies Wayss & Freytag IngenieurbauEd. Zublin, Marti Tunnelbau and Jager Bau was responsible for the construction of the Katzenberg tunnel supplied electric point heating systems for the line upgrade View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network The only recommendation regarding what is acceptable or not in terms of clothing is that schoolchildren should not wear tops that show their midriffs in the summer This results in a colourful mix of individual styles creativity and a relaxed atmosphere within the school The teachers do not have to spend valuable time ensuring that children adhere to strict uniform rules and the children are not being judged on their choices of clothing This is a relief when a 15-year-old decides to have pink hair Instead the schools judge academic achievement and contribution to the school life and the wider community when given a completely free choice as to what they can wear the majority of girls will choose some form of trousers When I ask my daughters why they are not wearing skirts and am told that “you can’t play football properly wearing a skirt” or “you have to be careful to make sure the skirt stays down” More than likely the girls will choose to wear the trousers.Fiona SchenkMüllheim You cover a mother’s attempt to sue the Department for Education over its guidance on trousers in school uniform, which are being denied to her daughter (Report Surely the question is not whether school uniform should require skirts or trousers but whether schools should be able to require a uniform at all I can understand uniforms for nurses or police because this identifies them rapidly as people who have rights and functions most of us do not to encourage them to march toward the sound of gunfire when ordered to do so I do not see how making children all look the same can help them learn either to be analytical or creative Let them wear what they want.Martin BlandYork Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters Bike Europe is a part of VMNmedia. 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