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Components of This Filling System are Always Clean

The Prevas Disposable Dosing System for filling liquid pharmaceuticals is said to reduce validation and production costs. The system features a completely disposable product path and incorporates a bulk product bag, a positive-displacement, rolling-diaphragm pump, filling needles and tubes into…

A Mill for Food and Pharmaceutical Applications

As a reaction to the increasing, worldwide requirements of good manufacturing practice (GMP), this firm is continually improving its pharmaceutical mill, the SCM (Super Clean Mill). The SCM is based on the principle of a conventional pin mill (impact type…

An enhanced way to feed small quantities of ingredients

K-Tron An enhanced version of this firm’s micro-ingredient feeder MT12 (photo) is now available in both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical models. The system accurately feeds free-flowing or difficult to handle powders at flowrates as low as 20 g/h and as high…

For explosive areas, this weight indicator is flexible and mobile

This firm has added new performance features and interfaces to its Combics Ex weight indicator (photo, p. 29) for Zone 1 and Zone 21 hazardous areas. The indicator is designed to be connected with high-resolution digital platforms and memory-programmable controllers.…

A vacuum conveyor that is GMP-compliant

Piab Vacuum Conveyors The UC Series of vacuum conveyors (photo) comply with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards, and are suitable for pharmaceutical processing applications, including loading and unloading coating pans, manufacturing tablet cores and handling or transferring pharmaceutical powders. Fully…

Transfer problematic solids with this robot

Kokeisl Industrial Systems The Picking Robot (photo) is a new, automated guided vehicle with weighing scale to collect components directly from a silo or container that is equipped with this firm’s Discharge and Dosing Device. Picking of even sluggish and…

An all-in-one dispersion laboratory

L.U.M. The Dispersion Analyzer LUMiSizer (photo) is said to be a complete dispersion laboratory in a single instrument. The LUMiSizer simultaneously determines the demixing of 12 different dispersions at original concentration, based on a patented STEP Technology. Due to acceleration…

Reference standards now available in single-shot format

Sub-sampling of reference standards by users is not recommended because of the possibility of introducing errors, and thus deviating from the certified size value. To avoid the need for this, a new set of 10 image-analysis, particle-sizing reference standards are…

A bridge breaker for progressing cavity pumps

Netzsch Mohnopumpen The aBP-Module (photo) is an intelligent feeding system for progressing cavity pumps for the prevention of bridging. It consists of a top hopper with two inner spoked wheels, which create the effect of moving hopper walls that impart…

Make your Own Wireless- Weighing Wystem with this Kit

This wireless-measurement kit enables product designers and end users to build an accurate and reliable weight-measurement system. The kit contains four of the firm’s patented CS Series capacitive sensors (50 or 100 lb capacity), one DS-2100 WiFi display and summing…