Boehringer Ingelheim microParts GmbH manufactures the RESPIMAT® product portfolio at the Dortmund location. The RESPIMAT® is a propellant-free pocket inhaler that has been available in a reusable version since 2019. With a production capacity of 45 million inhalation devices per year, the subsidiary ensures the supply of the global market exclusively for the researching pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.

Solarius Europe enables Boehringer Ingelheim microParts to ensure quality assurance and process control through fast, non-contact 3D measurement and inspection technology, thereby setting new standards in accuracy and precision that can be achieved with optical 3D technologies, while at the same time significantly reducing process times. In addition to the high standards of medical technology, Solarius, with nanometer-precise resolution on lateral structures in the single-digit micrometer range, meets previously unattained requirements for process stability in the optical 3D measurement of technical surfaces and structures.