Festo signs partnership alliance with GEA-Niro

Festo has signed a strategic partnership alliance, as a preferred pneumatics supplier, with the leading supplier to pharmaceutical giants, GEA - Niro Pharma Systems.

Festo has signed a strategic partnership alliance with the leading supplier to pharmaceutical giants, GEA - Niro Pharma Systems.

Appointed as a preferred pneumatics supplier, Festo's ability to continually develop quality products and services, as well as offer first class consultancy and advice has been recognised.

Ian Anthony, Supply Chain Manager from Aeromatic-Fielder, a division of GEA Process Engineering Ltd, has been working closely with Festo on this alliance, and commented, "The appointment of Festo as a preferred pneumatics supplier will undoubtedly benefit our business.

Dave Fraser, our Festo Business Development Consultant, works very closely with us and has got to know our business very well and is always offering the latest technology to help us continuously improve".

Anthony continues, "We are minimising our costs by reducing our supplier base and the agreement with Festo means that prices are set, lead times are standardised and we no longer need to stock individual pneumatic components, we just order an assembly from Festo which lessens our administration workload." Intended to demonstrate a commitment between Festo and GEA - Niro Pharma Systems, the agreement ensures continuous improvement on trading relationships between the two companies, as well as total commitment to customer orientation, in terms of matching their needs and providing the highest quality products and services available.

Dave Fraser, Festo Business Development Consultant concludes, "We're delighted that GEA Niro Pharma Systems has appointed Festo as a preferred pneumatics supplier and will work hard to make it a long-standing and mutually profitable partnership." About GEA - Niro Pharma Systems - Niro Pharma Systems is world leader in providing advanced processing solutions for solid dosage forms to the pharmaceutical industry.

Based on dedication to research and durable quality, Niro Pharma Systems offers a wide range of solutions, from individual pieces of equipment to complete integrated plants, by uniting the state-of-the-art technologies of Aeromatic-Fielder in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, Buck Systems also located in the United Kingdom, Collette and Courtoy in Belgium, GEA Buck Valve in Germany and Niro in Denmark.

Process Engineering Division (P-Division) - Niro Pharma Systems is part of the Process Engineering Division (P-Division) within GEA, which is a world leader in spray drying, fluid bed drying and liquid processing.

Core companies in the P-Division are Niro A/S in Copenhagen, Niro in Columbia Maryland/Hudson Wisconsin USA, and the Tuchenhagen Group in Buchen Germany.

In total the P-Division have companies in more than 50 countries and employs more than 3,000 people.

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