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Filling lines are used extensively in all industries, such as food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetics, to accurately package different products into a container suitable for that product. Although the filling process is at the very end of the production line, it is no less important than the earlier steps. Last but not least, the idiom that dates back to 1382 when John Wyclif wrote the firste the laste, and the laste the firste, indicates just that the last things on a list are just as valuable as the previous ones. In this case, this idiom fits perfectly.

Filling

The most significant decision when making ointments is likely to be the choice between automatic or semi-automatic processes for it. This impacts on individual phases of the ointment cream manufacturing process - the water phase and oil phase.

Ointment

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Filling and capping bottles and pots for food, chemical and cosmetics industries using separate machines is expensive and inefficient.A better solution is a combined monoblock unit, that will save space and cost, whilst increasing product throughput, even on multi-product lines.</span>

<b>Monoblock combined filling and sealing machine</b>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">EFM Monoblock filling machine is an easy-to-use, multi-purpose machine designed for filling and capping of containers with lids or pressure caps. Featuring a touchscreen system, the machine is easy to operate and allows simple readout and storage of all function information.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">EFM’s design philosophy is to provide adaptable machines suitable for a range of industries. The Monoblock filling machine can be used with a wide variety of filling methods, including digital flow metering, piston pumps, peristaltic pumps, and more.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For the sealing process, a choice of methods is available including manual positioning of lids, or use of a fully automated cap supply system that uses pick and place. Final tightening can be by magnetic capping, servo capping, pressure capping or pilfer proof capping, to suit your requirements.</span>

Compact monoblock filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For larger production runs of food, non-food and cosmetics industries, where accuracy and volume of filling is required, a fully-automated vessel filling solution that works seamlessly with your line is vital. Ease of operation and precision control over fill volume of a large spectrum of liquids provides maximum flexibility for multi-product environments.</span>
<h2>Flexible high-volume flowmeter solution</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The EFM F-Series is a fully customisable, high accuracy, high volume filling machine. Capable of operating with a wide spectrum of liquids, the F-Series is available in 2,4,6, or 8 head versions. The high efficiency supply pump transfers product directly to the flow meter, where it’s then sent in compressed tubes to the fill valves, which are servo-controlled for accuracy of placement.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Fitted with electromagnetic flow meters by default, the EFM F-Series can also be supplied with mass flow meters for use with non-water-based product. It can also be fitted with conductivity measurement where required.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The F-Series is made primarily of stainless steel, and it’s designed to be easily and quickly disassembled for cleaning.</span>

Flowmeter filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In many food, chemicals and cosmetic industry processes it is vital to have a quick, accurate and reliable filling and sealing solution that can handle a wide variety of liquid types, including high viscosity and foaming products, into a range of bottle types.</span>


<h2><b>High capacity filler and capper capable of handling wide range of product</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The EFM Inline Monoblock Linear Filling and Capping series is available in both flowmeter and servo piston configurations to suit your exact requirements. Able to operate at up to 2,600 bottles per hour and fill volumes up to 30,000ml depending on model configuration, the Inline Monoblock is constructed in the Netherlands using all stainless steel and standardised components for longevity and ease of maintenance. Remote support from EFM engineers is also available for full peace of mind.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All variants features Siemens PLC and touchscreen controls, and all product contact points are of 316 stainless steel construction for longer life even when used with corrosive product. A polycarbonate safety casing gives superior protection and allows for excellent visibility for monitoring the filling and capping cycle. The capping module features high-torque sealing and a self-contained Detect and Reject operation to confirm the integrity of the seal, ensuring product quality.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The flowmeter variants are fitted with Endress &amp; Hauser Mag or Mass flowmeters, and both flowmeter and servo piston versions feature bottle counting, individual centering detection and automated filling bridge height adjustment.</span>

In-line monoblock linear filler &amp; capper

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For the stand-alone capping of bottles of up to 2.5litre capacity you need a robust and flexible machine with high speed and accuracy. Used in the beverage and chemicals industries, bottle cappers need to be reliable and fast, and for maximum flexibility need to be able to deal with a range of caps.</span>


<h2><b>Fully automated standalone capper for bottles up to 2.5 litre</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The EFM range of Multi-Head Capping machines offer maximum flexibility together with impressive performance. These all-stainless machines feature Siemens PLC and full touchscreen controls for accuracy and ease of use. The use of standardised components throughout from high-quality manufacturers increases longevity and reduces the downtime for any maintenance. The gravity-fed cap sorter and magnetic torque head provide high levels of reliability.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to handle a wide range of caps types, including screw caps, push ons, non-vacuum twist-offs and pilfer proof, the EFM multi-head range includes variants able to operate from 4,000 bottles per hour up to 9,000 bottles per hour with the 8 head unit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible options include screw infeed, second cap sorter for extremely quick changeovers, torque verification and Detect and Reject system for full capping verification. The units are also available with an optional remote support package direct from the manufacturer.</span>

Multi-head capper

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For the stand-alone capping of bottles of up to 30 litre capacity for smaller-scale production you need a robust and flexible machine with high accuracy. Used in the beverage and chemicals industries, bottle cappers need to be reliable and fast, and for maximum flexibility need to be able to deal with a range of caps.</span>
<h2><b>Flexible single-head capping machine for smaller-scale production lines</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The EFM range of single head capping machines offer maximum flexibility together with impressive performance for smaller scale production lines. These all-stainless machines feature Siemens PLC and full touchscreen controls for accuracy and ease of use. The use of standardised components throughout from high-quality manufacturers increases longevity and reduces the downtime for any maintenance. The gravity-fed cap sorter and magnetic torque head provide high levels of reliability.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to handle a wide range of caps types, including screw caps, push ons, non-vacuum twist-offs and pilfer proof, the EFM single-head range includes a standard edition able to cap up to 2,200 bottles per hour, and a servo-controlled edition capable of up to 2,600 bottles per hour.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Featuring a star wheel positioner as standard, the machine is able to fill bottle of up to 2.5 litres. However, by specifying the option using gates larger packages from 5 up to 30 litres can be filled by this machine, providing great flexibility.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Other options include high torque sealing, torque verification and Detect and Reject system for full capping verification. The units are also available with an optional remote support package direct from the manufacturer.</span>

Single head capper

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Increasing numbers of products in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries are delivered in flexible tubes, bottles or dispensers. Automated tube filling machines improve production efficiency by accurately filling, sealing and capping a range of tube-based packaging with minimal operator intervention. For smaller-scale production environments, large filling machinery is impractical and expensive.</span>


<h2>Automatic tube filler for small scale production</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 from IWK is a next-generation tube filling machine that operates at lower speeds, most suited for small scale production. It features 10 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 52mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 300 ml of product at up to 70 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 has been designed to allow for rapid product changeover, and all components can be switched out in a little as 15 minutes, keeping downtime to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP-10 benefits from the latest servo technology, giving the machine extremely high reliability and minimum maintenance. A new 5.7” touch panel HMI not only displays all relevant process parameters, but also allows profile storage and data recording. Internet connectivity allows for remote diagnostics and servicing.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to fill metal or plastic containers, the FP-10 can perfectly contour seal plastics with hot air and offers double, triple or saddle folding for metal tubes to meet your exact requirements.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the FP-10 can fill and close cylindrical (with EURO-hole, curved seal) oval or conical tubes, dispensers (including inserting of pistons), mascara brushes, cartouches, jars, and tottles (with capping).</span>

Low speed tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For scale-up filling of tube packaging for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food products, a medium-speed automatic tube filler is required that meets increased demands of speed and volume with high levels of accuracy and minimum downtime. The ability to handle a wide variety of packaging types, and to cap and seal in different ways means additional flexibility that results in increased efficiency.</span>


<h2>Scale-up tube filler for increased efficiency at higher volumes</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK FP Series is a latest-generation modular filling and sealing machine for tube-based containers. Designed with reliability, ease of use and performance as a priority, the FP Series uses the latest servo technology throughout to provide industry-leading levels of reliability.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The range features 18 to 64 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 63mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 700 ml of product at up to 300 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The modular design of the FP Series allows it to be configured to your exact requirements, both in terms of operations and functions and floor layout. 5 servo drives (with an additional 4 as options) are at the heart of the oval transport system and offer high level of accuracy together with a robustness that keeps maintenance and downtime to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The FP Series is available with a large range of options that means it can be tailored to your exact requirements. Options include tube feeding systems, in-line checkweighing, frequency welding, droplet dosing and many more.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-colour tube filling is available and features the IWK patented swing-out quick change system for rapid changeover. Multi-colour fill types include sandwich, deep stripe, surface stripes and core striping.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The newly designed HMI features a 15” touchscreen control with graphical status reporting and diagnostics, and is fully 21CFR part 11 compliant for auditing and reporting.</span>

Medium speed tube filler and sealer

<span style="font-weight: 400;">When scaling up production of pharmaceutical, food or cosmetic products that use tube containers, increasing speed and throughput without compromising on accuracy and quality are vital. Tube fillers need to be able to handle a wide range of packaging types and allow for rapid changeover to benefit from their flexibility and speed.</span>


<h2>Small footprint, GMP-design medium to high speed tube filler</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TFS-E Series benefits from a range of innovations that result in a robust, easy-to-use and maintenance-free tube filling solution for medium scale production.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-E Series features 20 workstations that can handle tubes from 11 to 52mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1 ml and 350 ml of product at up to 220 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Designed with flexibility in mind, the TFS-E features a format change over time of less than 25 minutes, and storing and recalling all relevant process parameters to guarantee a vertical start up. All product-contacting parts are swapped out “en bloc” which gives the maximum efficiency whilst allowing for a range of product. The patented IWK dosing system is supremely accurate but also simple to maintain, thanks to Clean in Place in under 5 minutes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to fill metal or plastic containers, the TFS-E Series can accurately contour seal plastics, and offer a choice of double, triple or saddle folding for metal tubes to meet your needs.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the TFS-E Series can fill and close cylindrical (with EURO-hole, curved seal) oval or conical tubes, dispensers (including inserting of pistons), mascara brushes, cartouches, jars, and tottles (with capping).</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A wide range of options enables the TFS-E Series to be specified exactly to your requirements. Options include multi-colour filling, tube de-dusting, in-line checkweighing, automatic central lubrication system, and many more.</span>

Medium and high speed range automatic tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For high-volume lines filling pharmaceutical, cosmetic or food products into tube containers, high speed and throughput must not come at the compromise of fill accuracy and sealing quality. High performance tube filling machines successfully match performance with quality, using a range of technological advances to ensure the maximum efficiency and rapid ROI.</span>


<h2>World’s fastest high efficiency tube filler with advanced features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-80 Series from IWK is a high-performance, next-generation tube filling machine that is most suited for large scale production environments. It features up to 24  workstations that can handle tubes from 22 to 40mm in diameter and can accurately dose from between 2 ml and 220 ml of product at up to 750 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-80 Series is officially the world's fastest tube filler, and yet it’s new weight checking and quality control system guarantees accuracy, reducing tube overfilling significantly. By using a clever modular design, workstations can be retrofitted with ease for maximum flexibility and future expansion, making development of new packaging or product types simple.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Because it operates with such high performance, the TFS-80 Series has been engineered for reliability and efficiency. Many traditional mechanical actions have been rendered obsolete by the use of servo technology throughout. State of the art bearings with central lubrication system allow for long service intervals, reducing maintenance costs. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For greatly reduced downtime caused by product changes, fast exchange systems are employed. New motion parameters are automatically set via servo drives in case of product changes. The touch screen panel HMI makes these operations quick and easy, as well as allowing simple monitoring of the machine in use. Internet access allows remote diagnostics, further reducing any downtime.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the high performance of the TFS-80 Series, it’s been designed to occupy as compact a form-factor as possible, providing maximum flexibility when it comes to your own installation.</span>

High speed automatic tube filler

<span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance tube-filling machines are used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Their performance is greatly enhanced by the use of automated feed-in systems, delivery the empty tubes accurately and quickly to maximise the efficiency of the filler. Loading systems are available in a variety of formats, including the flexible cassette type.</span>


<h2>Feed cylindrical tubes via a cassette</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring a constant supply of appropriately orientated empty tubes, the IWK TZM Cassette Tube Feeding Magazine is suitable to supply machines operating at up to 120 tubes per minute.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZM allows for uninterrupted operation because it holds tubes in a reservoir between the tube filler and tube feeding magazine. Tubes in the reservoir are processed first, meaning restocking the filler will not impact on the operation. A photo-electric backup sensor monitors</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">the tubes in the reservoir ensuring it does not run empty.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZM aligns tubes into singles by using pneumatic baffle plate movements in the magazine and the reservoir area. Individual tubes are picked up at the far end of the tube filler chute and loaded in the tube filling machine.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with laminar flow, the TZM gently handles tubes, minimising damage to fragile materials. The TZM is able to handle all commercially available tube materials, and operates with tubes of diameter 13.5 mm to 40 mm, and length 60 mm to 230 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Size changeovers are very quick to minimise downtime and don’t require the use of any tools.</span>

Loading cassette for a tube filler

From thin liquid baby oils and perfumes to thicker lotions and creams for hair and skincare, cosmetic products include a wide range of goods. In an industry where there are a plethora of product types, it’s essential to use a filling machine that can be adapted to the different consistencies of lotions and creams.
<h2>Automatically fills and closes jars, glasses, and tins for cream</h2>
Engineered by Wick Machinery, the DFB-T delivers an output of 400 containers per minute and has a filling range of 1 to 300 ml. The in-feed of jars or empty containers can be done manually, by a disc sorting machine, and by a rotary table. All containers are air-cleaned, while various filling systems enable product-specific filling.

The model also features jar coding, film die and foil cutters for precise filling. It also features a sealing station for hot sealing of foil on glass and plastic containers. Lastly, its filling nozzles are specifically designed for individual products, making the DFB-T ideal for tins, glasses, and jars.

Cosmetic cream filler

AZO LIQUIDS is the partner you can rely on when it comes to innovative solutions for liquid and semi-solid processes in the pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and chemicals industries.

If you are <a href="https://making.com/products/creams">producing a therapeutic cream</a> that prevents, cures or alleviates a disease or injury, a license from a government is needed to sell the product.  The requirements for keeping such a license are quite stringent, looking at – for example- traceability, documentation and hygiene. The products must be safe, and you must be able to have proof of this. What does this mean for the manufacturing process, especially for smaller scale companies? What do you as a producer need to have in place?


<h2>Meeting the targets of the Pharmaceutical Quality System</h2>
In order to get and to be able to keep the pharmaceutical license, most authorized government bodies demand the producer to have a Pharmaceutical Quality System that follows Good Manufacturing Practice. Looking at for example the production, operations must follow clearly defined procedures. All materials and products must be stored under the appropriate conditions established by the manufacturer and in an orderly fashion to permit batch segregation and stock rotation. Operations on different products should not be carried out simultaneously or consecutively in the same room unless there is no risk of mix-up or cross contamination. At all times during processing, all materials, must be labelled or otherwise identified with an indication of the product or material being processed, its strength (where applicable) and batch number. This means almost everything needs to be documented or monitored to reach these standards.
<h2>Automated production when upscaling</h2>
Switching to an automated production line can reduce the risk of cross-contamination and make it easier to meet all these standards. If you want to adhere to these standards, it is rather difficult to do with manual production. Many companies decide to scale up and  a first step could be to install a second processing vessel that will only be used to manufacture the final product, where the other vessel is used for the intermediate product. A cleaning system (CIP) would also make it easier to follow stringent hygiene rules. As you grow, a next step could be the incorporation of machines that automate a part of the process or installation of fully automated plant design to eliminate all manual operations and automate a lot of documentation of the production. Apart from tracking all this information, the product would also be fully traced from the start of the manufacturing process all the way to the packaging, a topic that is at the heart of this pharmaceutical license. A good example of automated plants for creams production, is shown in the video below, of the modular vacuum processing plant of AZO LIQUIDS.

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How to keep your government license for therapeutic cream production?

Pharmaceutical

The topical route is a convenient route for the self-administration of drugs. But turning a pharmaceutical formulation into an easy-to-use cream involves specialized cream manufacturing equipment. Topical dosage forms are essentially an emulsion of oil and water.  But the ratios can be changed to process it into lotions, ointments, and gels.

Cream

Pharmaceutical developments walk side by side with health advances to provide new medicines, treatments, and therapies that have increased life quality and extended life expectancy by years. Pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment helps deliver products to a great deal of the population, but there’s a significant share that doesn’t benefit from them yet. Over 2 billion people cannot get the medicines they need, according to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and local production might be a way to provide for these people.

Pharmaceuticals

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