Vetter has begun operations at its expanded Visual Inspection and Logics Center in Ravensburg. The company invested approximately $107 million, which bundles capacity for final product inspection and logistics in one site. The company now offers more than double the capacity for quality control, cold-storage and room-temperature storage, allowing for more efficient and flexible supply chain processes. 

The expanded Center, referred to as Ravensburg Vetter West, covers approximately 538,000 sq.-ft. and offers a 35,000 pallet warehouse capacity for storing pharmaceuticals in refrigeration or room temperature conditions. The company has increased capacities for chest freezers, incubation chambers, and constant climate chambers, as well as visual inspection capacities of filled units. The center also contains a support materials warehouse with corresponding safety installations as well as a new packaging-check lab and the company’s central archive.
 
By the end of 2017, Vetter will relinquish its existing Holbeinstrasse site for visual inspection and logistics and employees will gradually be relocated to Ravensburg Vetter West, resulting in a working staff of approximately 800 employees. 

“The requirements regarding final product inspection as well as transportation and storage of (bio-) pharmaceutical materials are ever-increasing,” said Vetter managing director Thomas Otto. “Concentrating our supply chain processes in one site enables bundled resources for even more efficient and highly-secured logistic and quality control procedures.”