President / Ceo
CurrentFounded in 1963 by Richard F. Hurst (1943 – 2015), HURST CORPORATION is a Pennsylvania Corporation specializing in custom designed and manufactured machinery and hardware for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.Known worldwide for LabelStripper label removing machines, HURST has had over 500 machine installations in 10 countries. Customers include Astra Zeneca, Bayer, Catalent, Hospira, Merck , Pfizer and many others.HURST is a national leader in the creative design and manufacture of stainless steel depyrogenation, autoclave, incubation and lyophilization vial trays. HURST patented polycarbonate vial tray and cart systems provide a full range of equipment and accessories for economical vial storage and transport.HURST has a forty plus year track record in developing leading edge technology with over twenty issues patents in the USA and Great Britain. Patents include developments in microfiltration, tablet comminution, high speed tray loading, tray unloading, label delaminating, rotary capping and traying systems. HURST'S current project is a unique system for horizontal syringe storage.HURST'S licensed manufacturing partnerships combine HURST creative design and engineering with state-of-the-art production facilities in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan with corporate offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.