Quality Management of Hubei Xinji Pharmaceutical Packaging in the Industry 4.0 tide

Hubei Xinji Pharmaceutical Packaging

The 13th Five-year Plan of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Industry clearly mentions the transition of the pharmaceutical industry from “large” to “strong”. How do you deal with such transition?

We have been focusing on aluminum (collapsible) tube production for over 40 years and two generations, and will continue to be more refined and stronger in the drug packaging materials and aluminum tubes in the future with the artisan spirit.

What are the main application fields of products of the company? How are their performance on the market?

The aluminum tubes produced by us are mainly used in medicinal ointment and gel, as well as cosmetic cream and hair dye, and food. Our current supply of the products falls short of demand on Chinese and international markets.

What new products will the company launch in the future?

The company’s future focus is on the development of diversified aluminum tube nozzles, to meet sterile preparation product needs and product personalization needs.

What are the most popular products in the product catalog of the company? How are their performance on Chinese and overseas markets?

Products with extended plastic nozzle are popular with customers owing to the appearance and functional excellence, however, the manufacturing costs are high, but the yield is low. They are now mass produced by us, with supply falling short of demand.

What are the most popular product specifications of the company? How is the relevant capacity?

The aluminum tubes with extended plastic nozzle and ophthalmic nozzle are currently the most popular products of our company, with capacity reaching 100 million pieces at present.

What is the synthetic route of the products? Do they have patent protection?

Compared with the aluminum tubes with membrane, those products’ production difficulties and differences lie in the extrusion and capping. They do not have patent protection for the time being.

What is roughly the global market size of the products? What are the differentiation advantages of the products?

The market shares of our aluminum tubes with extended plastic nozzle and ophthalmic nozzle continue to increase on global market. Our advantages lie in the solution of sealing.

Are there industry standards or national standards for the products? What are the specific standards or certificate of analysis (COA)?

The aluminum tubes with extended plastic nozzle and ophthalmic nozzle follow the British Standard BS2006 and Chinese National Standard YBB00162002.

What are the specific quality detection and appraisal methods for the products?

British Standard BS2006 and Chinese National Standard YBB00162002.

Chinese and foreign regulators are increasing regulation on pharmaceutical enterprises. How can informatization of pharmaceutical production and GMP management help pharmaceutical enterprises in the aspect of compliance?

Normalization of management on pharmaceutical enterprises can positively promote the production organization, operation, long-term planning, and development of upstream packaging material enterprises like us.

 “Made in China 2025” forebodes that quality management is the most important link in the rise of the Industry 4.0 tide of China. What are your methods in quality management?

The rapid development of industry promotes the production to become more intelligent. In the quality management, the overall system thought, management method, and testing equipment and method shall be bulldozed and rebuilt, to better match the future industrial production.

Company profile

Hubei Xinji Pharmaceutical Packaging Co.,Ltd located in China’s central city of Wuhan city circle, established in 1981 with nearly 40 years experience in aluminum tube manufacturing. As one of the professional pharmaceutical packaging companies, we brought in several high speed automatic production line from Germany and Italy. We gather a professional management team, combine the tube making technology accumulated in 30 more years with scientific management, regard “make every aluminum tube trustworthy” as our quality concept to cover the whole process including products designing, developing, producing, transporting and servicing.

Through the efforts of two generations of Xinji Pharmaceutical Packaging, adheres to the business philosophy “Meticulously manufacture, different for you”. We firmly believe product quality is from design and management. We focus on customers’ requirements, continue promote technology innovation and system revolution to provide high quality aluminum tubes and service for medicine, cosmetic, food, fine chemicals and household chemicals.

Looking forward to the future, We Xinji staff relying on scientific management, superb technology, vigorous continuous innovation team to move towards, committed to become the world’s leading professional tube supplier.

Modern workshop and advanced equipment

Our company is covering 50 acres, the workshops were built in according to the construction requirements of GMP in pharmaceutical production. Our factory use clean central-station air handling units from internal coating to packaging workshop to ensure our production environment reach 100 thousand grade standard. The compressed air after strict purification treatment fully meet the production conditions of direct contact with pharmaceutical packaging materials.

We introduced several sets of production lines from PSG of German and Technopack of Italy, and equipped with technique of the mark one take on top sealed and tube shoulder, three take on internal coating, six colors printing and the latex at the end, etc which can meet requirements of kinds tube appearance for customers.

Quality and service

"Make every aluminum tube trustworthy” as our quality concept, we firmly believe that quality is from designing and producing and not from inspection. We strengthen quality management of total supply chain and improve continuously working process, and we aimed at the major risk and  the systemic prevention.

Quality control department is the special independent unit to ensure that meet customer needs in terms of quality, adopt international testing standards and methods, continue to upgrade  testing equipment to maintain the accuracy of test results, establish a zero-defect quality management philosophy:  identification of customer needs correctly, to ensure adequate staff training, new product development, change control and product testing and quality .

Customer Service

Adhere to the business philosophy “Meticulously manufacture, different for you”, we clearly understand the needs of customers, establish supply chain system and appropriate procedures based on customer needs to maximize customer satisfaction .

For any quality problems, analysis the cause with high standards in order to establish a long-term mechanism; Each employee should understand how their daily work affects the quality level and customer satisfaction, continue to improve their own work for better service to our customers.