What began as a small cork manufacturing business in Germany has evolved into a global healthcare solutions provider serving the pharmaceutical, diagnostic, biotech, and consumer health industries.
For more than 130 years, Sanner has combined entrepreneurial spirit, engineering excellence, and a passion for packaging innovation to help customers bring safer and more effective healthcare products to market.
Today, with integrated capabilities spanning device design, development, healthcare manufacturing, assembly and packaging, we support customers worldwide throughout the entire product lifecycle.
From pioneering the world’s first desiccant closure to becoming a global healthcare solutions partner, Sanner has continuously evolved to meet the needs of the healthcare industry.
Building on decades of manufacturing excellence and desiccant expertise, we have expanded our capabilities into medical devices, bringing together device design, development, and scalable manufacturing across Europe, North America, and Asia. Today, we help customers move seamlessly from innovation to commercialization through a truly global platform.
Expansion into Asia with the opening of Sanner China.
Founded in Cambridge, UK, in 2013, Springboard brings its established expertise in developing innovative products for regulated markets to Sanner UK. Its multidisciplinary expertise combines creativity, science-based and forensic engineering, industrial design, and technical excellence.
Today, Sanner UK supports customers across medical devices, consumer healthcare, biotech, diagnostics, electronics, software, sustainability, and human-centered design. The team brings together these capabilities to turn pioneering ideas into successful commercial products, from early concepts through development and commercialization.
Known for tackling complex technical challenges at pace, Sanner UK delivers practical, cost-effective solutions while helping customers protect their intellectual property and move products forward with confidence.
Gilero, founded in 2002, is now part of Sanner’s North American operations, bringing more than two decades of medical device development and manufacturing expertise to the Sanner organization. Its capabilities span product development, electronics and software engineering, human factors, regulatory strategy, and contract manufacturing.
Today, Sanner’s North American team supports pharmaceutical and healthcare companies across a broad range of medical and drug delivery programs. From medtech consumables to complex electromechanical devices, our teams provide end-to-end support from initial concept through development, validation, and full-scale manufacturing.
With design centers and manufacturing facilities across the United States and Mexico, Sanner provides customers with a broad North American footprint and the technical expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and customer support needed to bring innovative healthcare products to market.
With the additions of Springboard and Gilero in 2024, Sanner has created a fully integrated global Medical Device CDMO platform that combines world-class design, engineering, human factors, software and electronics development with manufacturing, assembly and packaging expertise.
The result reflects Sanner’s continued global growth; a seamless, reduced-risk path from concept to commercialization, enabling customers to accelerate innovation and scale production with confidence.
From the invention of the first desiccant closure to becoming a global healthcare solutions provider, our purpose remains unchanged:
Protecting Health — today and for generations to come.
