Our sustainable products, solutions, and services

As a partner throughout the entire value chain, we make an important contribution to sustainability in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. With our holistic approach, we offer customers innovative products, solutions, and services, which help them meet their ESG targets. We understand the challenges the industry faces and jointly develop solutions with ecological and financial advantages.

"We believe that leading in pharma and life sciences means leading in sustainability. By embedding ecodesign principles into our development—from selecting responsible materials, to designing efficient and compliant technologies, to enabling easier recycling and reduced environmental impact—we deliver solutions that unite performance, compliance, and true circularity."

Erich Hoch, Member of the Group Executive Board of Körber AG and responsible for the Business Area Pharma

The NeoTOPx is an advanced packaging solution that combines sustainability, efficiency, and product safety in pharmaceutical operations. By replacing pre-made plastic trays with 100 percent recyclable paperboard, NeoTOP significantly reduces environmental impact, simplifies waste management, and lowers disposal costs—supporting circular economy principles.

NeoTOP perfectly aligns with our monomaterial packaging design services, ensuring that all packaging components are made from a single material cardboard—simplifying recycling and reducing environmental burden. This design philosophy reinforces sustainability while maintaining premium product protection. NeoTOP enhances operational flexibility by accommodating multiple packaging formats within a single size, enabling quick format changes and rapid production starts. Its modular design allows seamless adaptation to diverse product types—vials, syringes, ampoules, pens, and more—while ensuring compliance with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) standards. By handling flat carton and partition blanks, NeoTOP eliminates the need for pre-glued cartons, reducing material usage and supply chain complexity.

B.R.AI.N revolutionizes automated visual inspection by integrating Al models into recipes, delivering superior accuracy and efficiency. Building on our proven InspectifAl and Eject-X solutions, B.R.AI.N uses a minimally invasive approach, embedding supervised deep learning models directly into high-speed production lines—ensuring rapid implementation and full compliance with all relevant GP (Good Practice) quality standards.

By reducing false ejects by up to 90 percent, B.R.Al.N minimizes product waste and re-inspection workloads, where traditional fixed-threshold inspection can cause false-eject rates of up to 15 percent, costing millions annually. In addition, operational capacity increases through faster time-to-market per batch and zero production downtime, since all model development happens in the cloud-based B.R.AI.N platform. The quicker ramp-up also reduces resource consumption and lowers operational effort. Delivered through a standardized six-step process—identify, label & train, deploy, qualify, monitor, and improve— B.R.AI.N ensures robust performance under high-speed, high-volume conditions. B.R.AI.N can be implemented immediately—on new GPU-equipped machines or via a lean retrofit that extends asset life—delivering a smarter, more sustainable inspection solution that improves efficiency, reduces waste, and enhances product quality.

Having been an integral part of our company's activities for many years, sustainability is firmly embedded in our corporate strategy. As a result, we are actively committed to energy saving, a circular economy, social responsibility and compliance with all legal regulations. We seek to reduce both our own carbon footprint and that of our products for the long term. We are constantly nurturing our position as a fair, attractive employer while also taking responsibility for our supply chains on both a social and environmental level.

"Sustainability shapes our technological mindset. With AIR Technologies—Automated, Intelligent, Regenerative—we enable our customers to combine efficiency and responsibility in a consistent way. Through regenerative technology, we help them reduce emissions, use energy more purposefully, introduce smart material, and achieve sustainable performance that goes beyond today's standards. In this way, we create long-term value for companies, as well as for the environment and society."

Arungalai Anbarasu, Member of the Group Executive Board of Körber AG and responsible for the Business Area Technologies

The Business Area Technologies not only supplies machinery but also offers digital solutions as Software as a Service. Sustainability is a core element of this portfolio. We have already reduced CO₂e emissions in both the development and operation of our digital products—benefiting our own processes as well as those of our customers.

A central focus is our application development environment. Our digital solutions collect and process machine and customer data in the cloud to continually improve equipment efficiency. To reduce emissions from these cloud operations, we reviewed whether all computing power in our Microsoft environment is truly needed or whether applications could be shut down or put on standby to save energy. Over the past 12 months, we have reduced the CO₂e emissions of our cloud-based software solutions by 65 percent.

Microsoft's analysis currently shows no further optimization potential. However, we continuously reassess our resource usage to uncover new reduction opportunities. This ongoing review also strengthens awareness of responsible energy and resource consumption across the organization.

Tobacco preparation is an energy-intensive process, especially during drying. With the HDT3 dryer, we apply advanced engineering to significantly increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions.

Traditional drying requires high heat input and often releases unfiltered steam into the environment. The HDT3 addresses both challenges with an optimized drying system and intelligent process control that noticeably lowers energy consumption and creates a cleaner process with reduced steam release and fewer environmental emissions.

As customers seek to reduce fossil fuel use and CO₂e emissions, electric heating is becoming increasingly important. We have already developed and built an electric version of the HDT3, with scalable heater designs for sizes 1 to 4—an important milestone on the path toward fossil-free drying.

To further minimize environmental impact, the HDT3 can be combined with our PGT system, which condenses and purifies exhaust gases. This not only reduces steam emissions but also recovers valuable energy. Together, the HDT3 and PGT systems offer a forward-looking, sustainable solution that supports cleaner and more efficient production processes.