Pharmaceutical contract manufacturing

From Idea to Finished Product

Your Product. Our Expertise. A Recipe for Success.

Trust us to turn your idea into a finished product. Liquids? Semi-solids? No matter what pharma products you want to produce, take advantage of our years of experience as contract manufacturers for the pharma and healthcare sectors. We provide sustainable, economical and reliable solutions for pharma contract manufacturing.

More than 50 customers, from SMEs to major corporations, trust us to be their CDMO partner for liquid and semi-solid dosage forms. Put your faith in our knowledge and work with us to make your projects a success.

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Services

Our Dosage Forms. The Choice is Yours.

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Liquids

We can supply liquid products like solutions, drops and syrups in glass bottles, plastic bottles or canisters, including all secondary packaging.

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Semi-solid

We produce semi-solid dosage forms like creams, lotions, salves and gels in tubes or bottles, including all secondary packaging.

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Products

Contract Manufacturing with Tradition and Quality.

If you’ve got high quality standards when it comes to your pharma contract manufacturing, then you’ve come to the right place. We produce prescription medicinal products (Rx), over-the-counter products (OTC), homoeopathic medicinal products, disinfectants, dietary supplements and cosmetics – including small batch production. As an experienced pharma contract manufacturer, we’ve been providing our customers with know-how and expertise they can count on since 1745.

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Medical Products

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Medicines & Biocides

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Cosmetics

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Dietary Supplements

Looking for a Reliable Partner in Contract Manufacturing?

There’s no substitute for talking to a real person. Write to us using the contact form below and we will get back to you shortly.

Services

Comprehensive Services for Your Product.

We’re more than just contract manufacturers and our service starts from Day One – we come up with innovative ideas for your product, from development to manufacture to delivery. Our years of experience and extensive know-how in the pharma industry means we have a modern take on production that considers additional aspects like sustainability and cost effectiveness.

We’ll devise pilot and feasibility studies for you and continuously optimise every detail of your processes and product. As a result, the product that leaves our factory at the end of the process is in a class of its own and a true market competitor.

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Development

From product idea to optimisation to galenic development, take advantage of our years of experience.

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Manufacturing

Our manufacturing facilities are spread across 3,000 m² and we have tanks with capacities of up to 20,000 litres to deliver precisely the product you expect.

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Filling

Depending on your requirements, we can offer certified filling of tubes, bottles (glass & PET) or canisters in a range of different sizes across a total of ten lines.

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Packaging

As experts in liquids and semi-solids, we offer comprehensive filling and packaging services.

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Logistics

Our secure warehouse has 8,000 pallet bays (incl. 300 explosion-proof) and temperature control.

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Company

Find out what it is that makes Lichtenheldt.

As a service provider in pharma contract manufacturing, we are here for our customers – as people. A working relationship based on trust forms the foundation for getting your products to market.

As a reliable contract manufacturer, we have been partnering with national and international SMEs and major corporations since 1985. We are constantly expanding our capacities, registrations and certifications, protecting your products now and in future. We value innovation, professionalism and reliability.

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Sustainability is the future – for all of us. That’s exactly why it is at the heart of our company policy, our business development, our customers and our colleagues.

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CEO

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Want to find out about the opportunities for getting your product to market?

Then you’ve come to the right place. We work with you to draw up a roadmap, from development to manufacture of liquid and semi-solid non-sterile finished products. And you can count on our years of experience every step of the way.

Sustainability

Our Values are Sustainable, Open and Honest.

While it’s true that different standards apply today than when our company was founded over 250 years ago, our values of fairness, honesty and openness remain the same. And what’s great is that new values – like sustainable production and being environmentally conscious – are also being adopted and growing with us.

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Jobs & Careers

Join the Lichtenheldt Team!

We believe that our success is built on happy employees and team spirit. Our employees appreciate and live by this sense of community, our values and the opportunities they have to help shape our company. We offer our dedicated employees the same great prospects we offer your products. Because without them, having the best products around would only be worth half as much.

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News

Experience Lichtenheldt. News & Stories.

Whether it’s internal company news, information about our company or wider industry updates, this is where we report on all the things that Lichtenheldt cares about.

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In dialog - Visit by CDU/CSU Member of Parliament Melanie Bernstein

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Successful time had at CPhI 2024 in Milan.

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