Disposable, low cost high containment materials handling
The Hicoflex® disposable containment system has been designed to provide a high contained docking solution between a product handling bag and the process. The system is simple, effective and provides a safe working environment with a minimal investment.
Flexible disposable bags provide a number of benefits over solid containers for handling small quantities of material in a production or R&D facility. Benefits include:
- Lightweight and easy for a single operator to handle.
- Flexibility to allow sticky poor flowing materials to be manipulated out of the bag.
- Disposable, so no cleaning or validation
- Low cost compared to solid transfer systems
- full yield discharge
- no cross-contamination
- Instant high protection for operator and product
- very fast installation
- simple / fast materials handling
- visual product transfer
The Hicoflex® disposable containment technology consists of two identical couplings which are joined together to seal the external faces, thus providing a closed transfer. The Hicoflex® disposable containment system is opened by applying a compression force to both ends to create an opening through which product can transfer. The Hicoflex® is attached to both a disposable containment bag (from 1 liter up to 50 liters) for transporting materials and to an disposable containment adapter which fits the inlet or outlet chute of the process to allow transfer of the product.
With containment performance between 1-10 µg/m³ (SW TWA) as standard, with an optional extraction shroud to further improve containment levels down to <1 µg/m³ (ST TWA), the system is more than suitable for API and Biotech manufacture, as well as secondary solid dosage manufacture.
Features of Hicoflex®:
- Can be used to safely transfer
Powders, Granules, Pellets, and Tablets
- 100% FDA conformity
- anti-static material available
- produced under Clean Room conditions class 5
- specialities available on demand
- all Hicoflex® units are pre-sterilized by Gamma irradiation (50kGy)
What is Hicoflex® and how does it work:
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The Hicoflex® high containment system for fast and instant materials handling performs a variety of functions simultaneously: it provides a reliable means of secure materials handling for transportation, an ergonomic docking system, a contamination-free way of transferring product, and a reliable sealing system for transport containers. It’s simple, effective and inexpensive. |
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