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The Newsletter for GELITA Customers the Newsletterforgelita Customers DATE Celebrates Its 80 July 2014 UPTODATE The Newsletter for GELITA Customers #34 Jubilee – GELITA celebrates its 80th birthday! Editorial Dear Reader, Quality and safety are the two principal factors involved in the production of drugs, food and health- and nutritional products. Regulations and laws also determine whether and how these products may be imported and exported with- in a tightly networked global business area. However, we are still some way away from what we can say is a worldwide harmonized ”legal landscape“. Current legal regulations define only the minimum requirements concerning product quality and product safety. The GELITA standards, which we determine together with our customers, are mostly more stringent than those set by the authorities. Regarding logistics and sales of these products, GELITA’s own highly qualified Regulatory Affairs staff have proven to be preferred contact persons for custom- ers and indeed by the authorities. Benefits for our customers: they can manufac- ture so-called Global Compliance Products using our collagenous proteins. This commitment in particular is decisive for the success we have had. The relevant numbers speak for themselves: GELITA‘s turnover in 2013 again showed double-digit growth. This is quite clearly the result of our well-focused customer-, innovation- and brand-marketing strategy. By the way, the GELITA brand name is currently celebrating its 80th birthday – and it is still young! It The editors of uptodate interviewed has been continuously modernized and stands for quality and reliability. I wish Dr. Uwe Seybold and Reinhard Zehetner, you all pleasure in reading this issue and trust you will find ideas for potential GELITA AG mutual projects. Michael Teppner, Interview Global Vice President Marketing & Communication “We are expanding GELITA AG our Reporting System for CSR and Ethics” Visitors at GELITA Guests from Sanofi, South America Jubilee The GELITA® [14] [4] brand name [10] is now 80 GELITA Mexico [12] [8] Innovation Room Product Innovation New Product Simply cut a GELITA Sol®C – fine figure for radiant beauty PEPTIPLUS® by GELITA helps to [7] degrade fat [2] Technical Innovations GELITA® Gelatine as process catalyzer For many years now, the potential of hydrogen has been investigated as a less climate- damaging source of energy. This element is almost limitless on our planet, although primarily as a component of chemical compounds. To become available, it has to be isolated from these. GELITA® Gelatine has been shown to be an important basic substance in this process. The essential problem in popular methods used for preparing charged hydroxyl groups are able to utilizing hydrogen is: although a vehi- these so-called nano-catalysts for bind metal cations. The special feature cle e.g. powered by hydrogen exhausts the production of hydrogen is the involved is that GELITA bovine gela- only water and is thus absolutely sol-gel process. In this somewhat tine can be used in the above-men- ecologically friendly – the manu- complex process that involves a tioned sol-gel process to circumvent facture of hydrogen requires so much number of separate steps, a gel is several of the steps normally required. energy that its ultimate use becomes initially prepared and is then com- Thus, the “proteic” sol-gel process uneconomical. Thus, the more effi- busted in the process. utilizes gelatine as an organic start- cient hydrogen can be produced, the ing material so that the gel normally better it is for the climate balance. This The X-Ray Diffraction Group of the required need no longer be produced. is where GELITA® Gelatine comes in. Department for Physics at the On combustion of this gelatine-metal University of Ceará (UFC) in Brazil mixture, the organic fraction is defla- Production of catalysts has been investigating and producing grated, thus allowing the remaining nano-structural metal oxides and metals to form certain alloys – exactly In order to release H – the chemical alloys for some ten years now. One those catalysts that are so valuable symbol for the element hydrogen – important element used in their re- for the production of hydrogen. from a chemical compound compris- search is GELITA bovine gelatine. In ing water, acids or hydrocarbons, their work in the laboratory, they Ingeniously simple and efficient – and catalysts are required; these in turn utilize the properties of gelatine as extremely variable in use: GELITA® first have to be produced. One of the a protein, where their negatively Gelatine. [3] Interview with Dr. Uwe Seybold and Reinhard Zehetner of GELITA AG ”We enable our customers to manufacture Global Compliance Products“ What makes GELITA a successful company? It is not only the high quality of its products but also what the company offers in the way of added value. GELITA for example engages itself much more intensively with Regulatory Affairs than other companies in the branch – something that benefits all of our customers. Mr. Zehetner, what does is included in the data bank supplier ers themselves set their required levels. GELITA do to fulfill all the stringent Ethical Data Exchange, abbreviated to Their specifications for products and requirements of product quality? Sedex. Our customers can access this packaging become our standards. We Zehetner: Many years ago, GELITA start- platform, inform themselves of our release products only when all customer ed to systematically build up an ISO philosophy and form a picture of how we specifications have been met. 9001-certificated Quality Management do our business. System. In the meantime, at all of our Dr. Seybold: In addition, GELITA will How do you go about ensuring that plants, we work according to the rela- shortly employ a new manager to actively your suppliers meet all your quality tively new FSSC (Food Safety System monitor and promote the global co- requirements? Certification), a system that is based on ordination of CSR topics. We will be Zehetner: We conclude detailed Quality ISO 22000. The focus of FSSC is food expanding our Reporting System and Agreements with all our suppliers. In safety. It comprises risk analysis of all defining our key figures. Our topics will addition, not only are we audited by our process steps, access rights to the plant thus become even more transparent for customers, but we also audit our suppli- and hygiene regulations. In addition, our customers. Our goal here is to be a ers of raw materials. We also regularly FSSC has the advantage that it can be role model in this area. audit companies that supply elements, easily integrated into our basic system. e.g. packaging, that come into contact ”We will be expanding with product. Customer requirements can change. our Reporting System for What developments have you observed? Dr. Seybold, how important is our in- Zehetner: Customers are currently plac- CSR and Ethics“ tensive engagement with regulatory ing more value on their cooperation part- affairs? ners becoming more socially responsible Regarding transparency: What sort of Dr. Seybold: Our competence in regula- and that they work in a sustainable way. insight do you grant customers into tory affairs is one of our primary strengths. Within the scope of Corporate Social your Quality Assurance? Our customers receive gelatine that Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability, Zehetner: Our customers are allowed to fulfills all worldwide legal requirements focus is on ethical aspects along the lines observe our complete manufacturing and that allows him to manufacture of Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI). process at any time. In Germany alone we so-called Global Compliance Products. are audited by customers about 25 times GELITA also plays an important role in How does GELITA fulfill these? a year. Alternatively, they can obtain in- associations relevant to regulatory Zehetner: Our company has placed top formation on our management systems, affairs, e.g. GME (Gelatine Manufacturers priority on responsible interaction certificates and legal provisions mostly of Europe), GMAP (Gelatin Manufacturers between people, environment and com- by using comprehensive questionnaires. Association of Asia Pacific), GMIA (Gela- panies. Our goal is to exceed the require- tin Manufacturers‘ Institute of America) ments of International Environmental What is the standard used in Quality and SAGMA (South American Gelatin Management standard ISO 14001. With Assurance? Manufacturing Association). As market respect to ethical trading, there is as yet Zehetner: Legal requirements represent leader, we take on special responsibilities, no formal certification; however, GELITA our absolute minimal standards. Custom- e.g. by using more staff than in other [4] Reinhard Zehetner joined the Engineering Department of GELITA in 1986. After three years in Production, he moved to Quality Assurance in 2005, where he was responsible for Environmental Management. In 2007 he became Head of Quality Management. From 2008, he has been Director Global Environment, Health, Safety and Quality. Dr. Uwe Seybold joined GELITA in 1986 as a microbiologist. Initially responsible for hygiene, he moved towards food legislation. In 1998 he became Head of Regulatory Affairs and since 2002 he has been Global Vice President Regulatory Affairs. [5] Interview companies in the branch. At Eberbach Dr. Seybold: We process up to 100 pages requirements for gelatine, the authorities alone, three managers are currently of legal texts in such a way that our cus- often approach us with questions. working in this area and are exclusively tomers can obtain
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