Flexible packaging maker PPC Flex Co. Inc. is expanding clean room manufacturing capabilities and space at the company's Buffalo Grove, Ill., facility.
Calling the move a "significant investment" in the Illinois location, PPC Flex said the work includes "enhancing production capabilities to meet the increasing demand for high-quality, sterilizable packaging for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries."
The expansion includes 25 percent more clean room manufacturing space and a 100 percent increase in the company's climate-controlled warehouse.
PPC Flex also installed two new advanced header pouch machines.
"The newly installed header pouch machines enable PPC Flex to produce large Tyvek header pouches up to 1,215 millimeters wide, along with window pouch and three-side seal pouch options. This advanced equipment is housed within PPC Flex's ISO Class 4 and Class 7 clean rooms, ensuring the highest standards in cleanliness and quality for pharmaceutical, medical, and dental device packaging and critical environment scientific equipment manufacturers worldwide," PPC Flex said in announcing the project.
PPC Flex is owned by Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR LLC.
"Expanding our Buffalo Grove clean room manufacturing facilities, warehousing space, and equipment capacity allow PPC Flex to address the growing demand, provide improved lead times, and lower production costs for sterilizable Tyvek header pouch packaging for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers," said Executive Vice President George Rose in a statement.
News of the expansion in Buffalo Grove comes near the same time that the company decided to close manufacturing plant in Alliance, Ohio.