GEKA’s Fully Finished business is in very high demand and it is key to streamline the development, production, and filling under one roof. Beginning the third quarter of 2019, Geka Mfg Corp in Elgin, Chicago is offering this service to GEKA`s American customers as well.
A fully automatic filling and capping machine with the latest technology was installed, offering a filling capacity of 15 million units per year. On July 1, 2019, the cutting-edge bottling plant has opened with a clean room, temperature and humidity controls, and a laboratory for product testing.
GEKA Elgin relies on the same testing procedures as at its Headquarters in Bechhofen, Germany and trust on local partners for first-class formulations, that have been carefully screened by GEKA's experts in Germany.
GEKA cooperates with locally based qualified laboratories to guarantee highest quality.
Customers want speed to market, quality, on time delivery, lower shipping costs, and professional local project management to ensure expectations are meet throughout the product launch.
GEKA's investments at its site in the USA and future steps and plans for this region, show that GEKA is reacting to the needs and requests of the dynamic beauty industry and its customers to improve GEKA's agility, live up to strong market dynamics, optimize processes and shorten lead times.
An additional investment has been done last September: hot-foil printing machines were installed to decorate complex, square bottles for lip gloss. The machine system has an inline image processing system which can fully check the print quality of the product.
GEKA Elgin offers a unique modular and flexible block building system with endless combination possibilities of bottles, caps and applicators/brushes for lip and eye units without the need of an investment for the customer.
This standard portfolio has been expanded by a mini mascara packaging with only 2.5 ml filling volume to fit the travel size business.
GEKA Elgin now offers full-service production in the areas of production, decoration and filling, including bottling. The advantage for GEKA's customers: a faster market launch through the optimized performance of applicators and standard tools.
Customers are already showing great interest in the filling option and the first fully sourced and filled products by Elgin will be launched soon.
