WEST WITHOUT BORDERS
The German teams joined the West without Borders global campaign from the beginning, and since then, the German team has organized several regional voluntary projects, employee giving campaigns and Christmas charity initiatives. In total, West Germany has raised over €150,000 through our West without Borders employee giving campaign. Charities of choice include: Fortschritt StädteRegion Aachen e.V., an organization that provides special treatment to help physically and mentally disabled people; Zwischen Uns e.V., an organization that supports disabled individuals living and working in our communities; and Lichtblicke – Helfen Sie uns zu helfen! e.V., an organization that supports children and adolescents with cancer or other serious illness.
West without Borders is not affiliated with Doctors Without Borders®, which is a registered service mark of Bureau International de Médecins San Frontières.
Kiefernweg
The Kiefernweg Campus is a 6,500 square meter campus including an office building and an Innovation & Technology center of excellence for the research and development of pharmaceutical packaging components and systems for injectable medicines. It currently employs approximately 185 people in a number of global functions including: product development, engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, procurement, sales, marketing, customer service, IT, Human Resources and other administrative functions. It is situated close to West’s manufacturing plants in Eschweiler and Stolberg, which are part of the Company’s global manufacturing network.
Eschweiler
Eschweiler is West’s largest manufacturing plant--approximately 28,000 m2 – and includes cleanroom environments. It specializes in manufacturing of elastomer products for the pharmaceutical industry and plays a critical role in delivering billions of components for the packaging and delivery of all types of injectable medicines. It currently employs 760 team members and holds a silver “Investors in People” certification.