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£80k investment for Rotherham glass manufacturer Beatson Clark

Rotherham glass manufacturer Beatson Clark can now supply pharmaceutical bottles pre-capped after an £80k investment.

A new Groninger six-head capping machine is now in operation at the company’s Rotherham site.

The equipment will allow Beatson Clark to fulfil a contract with a major high street chemist to supply pre-capped alpha sirops, continental winchesters and bespoke round bottles

The machine applies a 28mm Mediloc cap to glass bottles and can process up to 180 containers per minute.

Lynn Sidebottom, marketing director at Beatson Clark said: “Safety is a paramount concern for pharmacists and it’s essential that the correct cap is applied to the bottle.”

“Certain pharmaceutical products need to be child-safe and ensuring the correct cap is used also reduces the risk of contamination during storage.

Beatson Clark’s new capping machine has an associated UV ink jet coding system which applies a date/time stamp code on both the cap and the container for traceability.

Beatson Clark was founded as a supplier of glass containers for druggists and chemists in Rotherham in 1751 and is now the UK’s only manufacturer of pharmaceutical glass bottles.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .