OPTIMA packaging group GmbH
Optima designs and realizes packaging solutions from single machines to complex turnkey systems for pharma, consumer, nonwovens and life science products. Optima packaging technologies are considered leading-edge in many fields worldwide. Optima with headquarters in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, teams with its subsidiaries to design and build packaging equipment for pharmaceutical, consumer, nonwoven and life science products – from single standard machines to complete complex turnkey systems. Whether custom solutions or modular standard units, functions are consistently tailored to the specific needs of the customers and their industries. Optima is the worldwide leader in packaging technologies for many fields. Founded in 1922, the family owned and operated business is in its third generation and employs a workforce of more than 2,800 at its 20 international sites. An export share of over 85 is indicative of the company’s international standing.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Healthcare Packaging
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1922
Welcome
OPTIMA packaging group GmbH with headquarters in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany, teams with its subsidiaries to design and build packaging equipment for pharmaceutical, consumer, nonwovens and life science products – from single standard machines to complete complex turnkey systems. Whether custom solutions or modular machines, functions are systematically tailored to the specific needs of the customers and their industries. Optima packaging technologies are considered leading-edge in many fields worldwide, including filling and packaging of coffee capsules, freeze drying for sterile pharmaceutical liquids and packaging of paper hygiene products. The company’s broad expertise also extends into production lines for manufacturing and packaging advanced wound care products.
Customers appreciate the personal, cooperative and flexible working relationship with Optima’s subsidiaries. Optima as a parent company in turn provides the infrastructure and resources needed in the globalized economy. The company is committed to environmental and social sustainability through positive action. Optima provides various levels of support to a wide range of social and societal projects.
Occupational safety, with the main aim of avoiding accidents and thereby reducing employee absences, is also of major importance. We also ensure the occupational safety of our suppliers, customers and other visitors (see our Occupational Health and Safety Policy).
Shaping Tomorrow's Sustainability Today. Honest Packaging for a Functioning Circular Economy. It is our responsibility to make circular packaging a part of our everyday lives.
Employees as central success factor
Optima is considered to be a “hidden champion”, a status due in no small part to its highly qualified workforce. All employees have access to an extensive continuing education program to continuously hone their skills and develop professionally. Training the next generation of employees has been a long-standing tradition at the company. More than 160 young people are employed as apprentices at Optima every year.
Founded in 1922, the family owned and operated business is in its third generation and employs a workforce of more than 2,800 at its 20 international sites. In addition to its base in Germany, the company maintains branch offices in Italy, France, the UK, the USA, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China, India and Malaysia. An export share of more than 85% is indicative of the company’s international standing.
Sustainability
Shaping tomorrow's sustainability today
Honest packaging for a functioning circular economy
The starting point for climate protection measures is the calculation of the Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF). The correct accounting of greenhouse gasses and the compensation of remaining emissions were verified by TÜV Süd in accordance with the internationally recognized ISO 14064 standard and the GHG Protocol model.
In addition, Optima has been using green electricity since 2009 and has been able to reduce the company’s operational climate footprint by 40 percent through additional measures. A further package of measures will reduce this by an additional 25 percent by 2030. Increasing energy and resource efficiency at selected locations and expanding sustainable mobility are important cornerstones for this.
Compact design enables our customers to double their output per square meter of production area. At the same time, production areas can become considerably smaller. An example of this is the OPTIMA EGS. The footprint of this machine has been reduced by over 40 percent.
Our high-precision 'topping-up' dosing process reduces underfilling and overfilling of packages to an absolute minimum, thereby achieving an increase in output of 500,000 cans per year.
Our OPTIMA Total Care life cycle management program maximizes machine life. For instance, predictive maintenance can be used to make full use of the maximum service life of parts subject to wear. Rebuilding and overhaul programs mean that the equipment can be adapted to meet market needs, without having to be completely replaced.
Correct recycling of machinery makes a major contribution to resource conservation. Therefore, as a manufacturer, we offer the option of ending the life cycle of the machine sustainably upon request and returning the individual parts to the material flows in a professional manner – thus benefiting the environment.
Company
As a family-owned company, we consider ourselves to be especially committed to ecological, fair and successful long-term management.
- Lawful
- Fair
- Ethical
- Protection of environment and nature
- Reduction of emissions
- Sustainable management
- Transparency
- Local and regional value creation
At the 2015 World Summit on Sustainable Development held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the 17 'Sustainable Development Goals' were accordingly adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. As a responsible mechanical engineering company, Optima is able to contribute to seven of these goals.
How OPTIMA supports the sustainability goals
Goal: Zero hunger
Optima's innovative filling and packaging concepts ensure a long shelf life for products, which means that they can be distributed worldwide. Through our packaging, Optima wants to provide all people with access to food in sufficient quantities.
Both essential products and everyday consumer goods are produced and packaged to the highest standards by our machines.
Goal: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
We are a family-owned company, so at Optima our staff and sustainable business practices are particularly important to us. Our workforce is the keystone of our success.
Goal: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts