National Instrument, Company, Inc.

National Instrument Company, Incorporated (founded in 1950) is one of the world's premier manufacturers of integrated liquid filling, capping, and monobloc systems for the Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic, Personal Care, Food, Household Products, and Chemical Specialty industries. We are committed to providing cutting edge turnkey packaging solutions, technical support, and customer service of the highest quality. This is achieved by maintaining a Quality Management System that incorporates the efforts of every employee. A philosophy of continuous improvement ensures that the quality system is constantly evolving. These efforts result in a rewarding place to work and a respected reputation for the quality of our products.

National Instrument strives to be your single-source supplier for your entire production needs. A complete packaging line integrates Filamatic® filler and Capamatic® capper with upstream and downstream components. National Instrument provides customized solutions to its customers' specific needs; filling vials positioned in unusual tray configurations, filling lipstick molds, impregnating pads with liquid, filling and stoppering containers at speeds up to 300 bpm, or filling multiple liquid products simultaneously.

Filamatic® filling machines range from bench-top fillers to one-person production lines. Automatic and semi-automatic liquid filling machines are available in a wide variety of models to fill from microliters to liters of free-flowing, semi-viscous, or viscous products. Filamatic® monoblocs provide multifunctional capabilities of filling, checkweigh, gassing, fill weight correction, plugging, stoppering, cap crimping, and capping, with the touch of a button. The capability to dispense wide fill ranges enables filling of small volume and large volume parenterals on one monobloc. National Instrument has installed a modular monobloc at the Parentral Drug Association, Training and Research Institute (PDA/TRI) located in Catonsville, Maryland. A wide variety of products can be filled on this machine, from free flowing liquids to viscous creams. The PDA/TRI serves as worldwide center for meeting the needs of aseptic filling for pharmaceutical industries in the area of education, training and applied research.

CAPAMATIC® capping and stoppering machines provide a simple, reliable means of closing containers with screw caps, snap caps, standard stoppers, lyophilized stoppers, and aluminum crimp caps. Capamatic® capping machines utilize servo torquing - the preferred capping methodology. The salient features of servo torque control are that it provides extremely accurate application torque, and application and removal torque can be checked during production, with optional real time data access. Control parameters for different caps can be preset, automatic reject feedback. Servo control, in combination with our patented extremely low inertia Quick Change Chuck, guarantees the most accurate high-speed application torque available in the industry.

Typical products being filled using our equipment include: anti-perspirants, candles, cleansers, colognes, deodorants, enemas, glue, food additives, lipsticks, liquid paper, mascara, nail polish, parenteral drugs, pesticides, serums, shampoos, syrups, and vaccines. A substantial majority of stick deodorants and anti-perspirants manufactured in the USA are filled on our machines.

Users of our technology include: 3M Company, Abbott Labs, Bausch & Lomb, Blistex, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carter-Wallace, Inc., CB Fleet, Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc., Colgate Palmolive, Dial Corp., Eastman Kodak Co., Estee Lauder, Gillette Co., Procter & Gamble Co., Ralston Purina, Roche Diagnostics, Taylor Pharmaceuticals, and Unilever HPC, USA to name just a few.

National Instrument Company's worldwide network of Sales Engineers, independent representatives and distributors work closely with their clients to determine the best possible packaging equipment solutions for their specific needs.

The implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning software ensures the availability of a sufficient supply of parts when needed. We have maximum control over parts fabrication, because we maintain a fully equipped, state-of-the-art, in-house machine shop and electropolishing facility.

National Instrument Company's ongoing standard machinery improvement program and our Research & Development efforts ensure that our machines are at the aforefront of technology. Our commitment to packaging machinery innovation has led to over fifty patents.