LANDAU, Germany—Everything about the effort to produce rubber stoppers for vials containing the COVID-19 vaccine has been big for the family-owned German firm Wickert Hydraulic Presses.
The task was huge, meeting production of billions of rubber stoppers with only a few months lead time for both raw material suppliers and manufacturers of the hydraulic press equipment.
To meet that need, Wickert pharmaceutical presses, namely the WKP 10.000 S which can punch out 2,000 rubber stoppers per press stroke, shipped worldwide to companies in the pharmaceutical and medical industries.