The regional Marketing Oberpfalz draws the Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH, a company of the month September from Wackersdorf (rmo). The Gerresheimer group is represented in 47 locations worldwide, three of which are in the Upper Palatinate: Regensburg, Wackersdorf, Pfreimd. In its Division of Gerresheimer medical plastic systems (plastic products for the medical sector) are a total 1,700 employees. The Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH is a major employer in our region, explains Christoph Aschenbrenner, Managing Director of regional Marketing Oberpfalz, and adds: Gerresheimer shows investment in the Oberpfalz, up-to-date through the construction of a new sales and engineering centers in Wackersdorf or through cooperation with the University of Amberg-Weiden, its regional ties. For the regional Marketing Oberpfalz the Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH company of the month is September.

The sales and Engineering Center in Wackersdorf was opened only a few months ago. The Gerresheimer Regensburg has approximately 3.5 million euros Invest GmbH here. With its two competence centers the location Wackersdorf has become the turning and focal point of the Group of companies”, so Manfred Baumann, CEO of Gerresheimer Regensburg GmbH. During the 2004 built technical competence center (TCC) the technical heart”Gerresheimer medical plastics, world’s pioneering research and development stands for, are bundled in the new sales and engineering competence center well sales and administration. A total 270 people are employed at the Wackersdorf site. There are for example a cleanroom, a material laboratory, a measuring room with product-specific test instruments, as well as a pharmaceutical laboratory for analysis during the development stage in the TCC. For the pharmaceutical industry, Gerresheimer medical manufactures plastic system inhalers, pen systems, auto-injectors and injection systems. The lancing devices and lancets, and disposable products company for leading medical technology companies for a variety of analytical systems in laboratories and on-site at the doctor, rapid tests for patients in medical offices or hospitals, disposables for dialysis, catheter and surgical devices made of plastic.