About us
About us
Only one thing has ever driven us: Safety.
Only one thing has ever driven us: Safety.
Only one thing really counts in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries: safety, safety and once again safety. On account of this driving force, Günter Untch established his company in 2000 and designed and patented the split butterfly valve technology together with colleagues.
Today, those who say contamination-free material transfer (also) mean Andocksysteme G. Untch and the proven ASBV split butterfly valve technology.
Wherever docking systems are used, everything is always in flux: In a regulated environment, we ensure that this remains the case with innovative single-use products and the debate on Sustained Containment.
Our History
Andocksysteme was founded in 2000 by Günter Untch, who was driven above all by one concern: safety in the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries. Together with colleagues, he designed and patented split butterfly valve technology. Its first headquarters were in Niederweiler; in 2013 the company moved into a new building in Badenweiler, where it is based today.
Our Mission
Andocksysteme’s mission is to enable a world with less contamination, one in which people, product and environment are reliably protected. To that end, we support our customers from early engineering through to upgrades over the life of a system.
We consider the interface together with its packaging and operation, since exposure can arise at several points in a process.
Our Vision
Containment to Zero is what drives us: the ambition to bring exposure and contamination in life science processes down toward the limit of detection. We work to carry this into everyday manufacturing, so that transfers with ever less contamination can become the norm.
CONTAIN WHAT MATTERS
Andocksysteme builds containment interfaces for the points at which solids pass from one vessel to the next, since these are the places where material can escape or enter. Our aim at each of them is less contamination.
We read the slogan Contain what matters in the light of our mission, which names three things: the product, the people who work with it and the environment around them. Wherever solids are transferred, our aim is to help keep the product pure, the people involved protected and the environment clean.
Containment, in this sense, is about looking after the boundary between a process and its surroundings at the points where they meet. To contain is to care for that boundary, so that as little as possible leaves the process and as little foreign matter as possible enters it. The interface sits on that boundary, which is why it is where we work and what we build.
Our approach
We prefer to join a project early, because the earlier we are involved, the more purposefully a transfer can be planned. Our project management supports engineering and integration, factory acceptance testing included, while our quality department supports product qualification and change control, together with the review of regulatory requirements.
Once a system is in service, our Customer Service team supports its operation with training, maintenance and upgrades. For each application we configure interfaces, bulk packaging and the choice between Multi-Use and Single-Use Technology, guided by the risks and lifecycle requirements of the process. The applications range from laboratory quantities to fully automated production.
Sustainable Containment® is our guiding principle for sustainability and expresses the intention to bring containment, compliance and resource use together. Standardisation and compatibility are part of that thinking, and we consider material flows across partners and sites.
OUR HISTORY
Our history

20th anniversary of the company

Launch of ACUBE-PRO

Launch of APORT

Launch of ACUBE FIBC

World premiere of AVAX

New company headquarter

Achema Innovation Award

Powtech Innovation Award

Powtech Innovation Award

Largest order

Largest split butterfly valve

Founding of the company

25th Company Anniversary &
2. Cleanroom

New fully automated warehouse

1. Cleanroom

20th Company Anniversary

Launch of ACUBE-PRO

Launch of APORT
The first and unique combination of a process & containment interface

Launch of ACUBE FIBC
Launch of the ACUBE. The flexible single-use transfer and transport bag

World premiere of AVAX
Launch of the first and, at that time, only single-use containment split butterfly valve

New company headquarter
Relocation to new company building in Badenweiler following a construction period of 14 months

Achema Innovation Award
Innovation Award for Andocksysteme's "Flecoliner" product in the category Dispensing/Packaging Technology

Powtech Innovation Award
Innovation Award for Andocksysteme's "Flecozip" product in the category Dispensing/Packaging Technology

Powtech Innovation Award
Innovation Award for Andocksysteme's "ASAM" product in the category Dispensing/Packaging Technology

Largest order
First large order for split butterfly valves with a volume of > €1 million

Largest split butterfly valve
Installation of the largest Andocksysteme split butterfly valve with a nominal diameter of DN500 in the version active flange with eladur

Founding of the company
Founding of Andocksysteme G. Untch GmbH with the former headquarters in Niederweiler (Müllheim)
Our customers
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