It’s not often that you can see a complete production plant on an exhibition stand but at P-MEC India GEA Pharma Systems will go one stage further: two complete systems, all on stand number i26 in Hall 5 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai from 30 November to 2 December 2012. The granulation lines and their tablet presses have all proved popular in India with many successful reference sites in production.
Production Scale Granulation
The centre piece of the stand will be GEA Pharma Systems’ 1200 litre integrated granulation and drying line that shows the manufacturing process at full production levels from the dispensing of raw materials to the finished tablet. The system incorporates a number of user-selected options and an advanced WIP cleaning system. This modular approach allows customers to select standard process modules to suit individual needs.
Shortly after the show is finished the system is due for delivery to Zydus Cadila, the global pharmaceutical company.
Contained Pilot-Scale Granulation
Totally Contained Pilot-Scale Granulation Line
Also on the stand, and following its successful launch at Interpack in Düsseldorf this May, is GEA’s premier contained pilot-scale granulation system, designed with high containment in mind. It is a complete pilot-scale production plant aimed at producers of small quantities of highly potent compounds. Again it takes the process from dispensed raw materials to finished tablet. The system on show clearly demonstrates the flexibility that can be achieved throughout the process – including high shear granulation, pelletization and blending, etc. – in a totally contained environment. It illustrates how GEA Pharma Systems’ inspired technology can be selected to form a complete production system tailored for each customer.
The system incorporates GEA’s PharmaConnect®, Flexstream™ and Hicoflex® technologies with Buck® split valve technology and the revolutionary MODUL™ tablet press from Courtoy™. It is an inherently flexible, efficient, clean and safe system for small volume production. It also provides containment down to nanogram levels doing away with expensive, bulky and difficult to clean isolator systems or costly and uncomfortable airsuits, allowing the users to focus on the product, creating faster and more secure results.
The MODUL™ tablet press
The MODUL™ tablet presses from Courtoy™ are included as key equipment in both pilot and production-scale plants. They provide fast product changeover and high containment through the use of their compact Exchangeable Compression Modules (ECM) that contain all the product-contact components in a single module that protects the operator during production and can be manually switched in just 30 minutes at product changeover and washed off-line (WOL). MODUL™ tablet presses have taken their place as trusted technology worldwide since their introduction.
Both plants demonstrate how GEA’s inspired technology allows the same level of containment and process efficiency to be maintained with seamless scale-up from the laboratory to full production.
GEA Diessel and GEA Lyophil
The ACE Technologies stand numbers i18 & i30 in Hall 5 will feature GEA Lyophil freeze dryers and loading & unloading systems; and fermentation and liquid formulation from GEA Diessel.
Where inspiration meets technology
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