Excellence United, an alliance of six specialty equipment  companies, will make its first North American appearance at INTERPHEX 2012,  held May 1–3 at the Javits Center in New York.

The members of Excellence United include: Bausch-Ströbel,  Fette Compacting, Glatt, Harro Höfliger, Uhlmann, and Visiotec. Together, these  companies comprise more than 4800 people in total with sales in excess of EUR 800  million ($1.05 billion). With the common utilization of resources, customers  will have access to an extensive international service network with 600  employees.

The heads of these organizations saw the pharmaceutical  industry undergoing a comprehensive transformation process in recent years  which presented a wealth of challenges while revealing an opportunity for  suppliers to join together to create a comprehensive solution for the  pharmaceutical supply chain. The six companies will share a pavilion (booth  #1524) at INTERPHEX to kick-off their collaboration in the North American  market.

“We are honored that Excellence United will be making  INTERPHEX their first stop in North America,” said Bob Stewart, industry vice-president,  at INTERPHEX Events. “INTERPHEX is the perfect place to showcase this unique  partnership representing the natural evolution of these companies working  together.”

All member companies are independent, medium-sized companies,  and each one plays an acknowledged technical role as innovators in their  respective segment of the market; this is expressed by the name “Excellence  United.” Together, the members of the alliance cover all of the stages of the  pharmaceutical manufacturing for whom Excellence United offers a unique network  in terms of know-how, technology, service, and project management on a worldwide  basis.

“Our aim is to take advantage of our joint offerings to  significantly improve the productivity and efficiency of our customers’  production, development and packaging processes,” said Uhlmann CEO Siegfried  Drost, a spokesperson with Excellence United. “Over the past few years, we’ve  practically been passing each other the baton in numerous equipment projects  involving operators pursuing a best-in-class approach. By bundling our  competencies, we can now offer customers this performance from a single source.  They in turn benefit from improved interface management, comprehensive documentation,  and on-site support.”

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Excellence United, an alliance of six specialty equipment companies, will make its first North American appearance at INTERPHEX 2012, held May 1–3 at the Javits Center in New York.