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Contained transfer systems are designed to safely transfer the product or waste items in or out of contained or sterile areas. Valves are used to regulate the flow in contained transfer systems. The choice of a suitable containment system depends on the form of source and target containers, the physical state of the product and the volume of the product to be transferred. These systems find applications in transferring pharmaceutical powders from drums to the process equipment, filling bulk chemicals in transportation bags or safely discharging them into mixing tanks.

Contained transfer systems

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Loading basket for GMP washer

The nearly 5,000 known minerals on earth share some characteristics to be classified as minerals – they are inorganic, solid, naturally occurring elements and have a particular chemical formula and an ordered internal geometric structure. However, minerals are not all the same. One way to divide them is based on their physical characteristics such as hardness, luster, color, and shape. For example, the diamonds we use to make jewelry are very hard minerals while talc is a soft mineral; gold is a shiny mineral while others are less so.

Minerals

Energy is constantly changing, but it finds rest in a fuel. Once exposed to heat, though, these natural materials release their captured energy. Every aspect of everyday life – from manufacturing to digital services – is powered by the mastery of this complex conversion from fuel to energy.

Fuel

Ceramics are defined as inorganic and non-metallic materials. Tthey are typically brittle, hard, and elastic as well as resistant to heat and corrosion; in fact, after shaping them into the desired shape, they are heated in an oven called kiln at very high temperatures (1,000 °C to 1,600 °C). Kaolinite and aluminum oxide are the best-known examples of ceramics.

Ceramics

Due to their potential hazardous nature, chemicals are classified for proper identification and safety during production. Chemical classification depends on their properties, structures and functions. In the chemical industry, you can regard them as basic chemicals such as acids, chemical products to produce plastic materials and finished chemicals for use in cosmetology. As a manufacturer or engineer, you want to know their reactivity when using chemical processing equipment.

Chemicals

A loading system feeds your continuous or batch processing machine with the specified material or item in line with the flow of production. Loaders transfer the articles from one stage of preparation to the next with uniformity and accuracy.

Batch

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To ensure perfect cleaning of contact parts they must be placed in the GMP washer in such a way as to guarantee flushing of even the most hidden parts. For all but the simplest of parts, simply stacking them is not enough. A fully customised washer basket not only ensures perfect cleaning of all types of product contacting parts but also maximises the throughput of the washer, reducing downtime by shortening cleaning cycles.</span>
<h2>Bespoke GMP Washer baskets to maximise cleaning performance and efficiency</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWT Pharma Baskets are custom-designed to your exact requirements. Engineers take detailed studies of all the parts that you require to be washed in order to build the optimum loading basket suited to all types of item - from drums to hoses, to filling needles, punches, dies, and more.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Key drivers in the design of the custom baskets are optimal cleaning performance, ensuring each product is able to be completely and thoroughly washed, no matter shape or construction; maximising throughput, optimising each load to reduce line downtimes associated with parts washing; intuitive loading, allowing operators to quickly and easily place parts without any complex insertions.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Loading baskets are made entirely from AISI 316L with ASME-BPE fully-welded piping to distribute washing solution around the load. For ease of use and speed of operation, the connections from basket to washer use patented quick lock connectors.</span>

Loading

Continuous

<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

Conveyor systems are used for moving materials from one location to another. Considerations for choosing a suitable industrial conveying system include the nature of the product, its physical state, the desired conveying rate, and sensitivity of the product to heat and mechanical shock. Conveying equipment is used in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, biomass, and mineral industries to move materials around a warehouse as well as to transport bulk powders, granules, and grains for processing and filling. These types of systems are usually automated and there is a wide variety of solutions to choose when it comes to the type of conveyor. Types include screw, gravity, chain, roller and belt conveyors.

Conveying

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

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Bottom loading/unloading arms are designed to be connected on the side or on the rear of the tanker and sometimes for both.


<h2>Safe, hassle-free loading from the side or the rear of the tank</h2>
Kanon bottom loading arms are used both for open loop and closed loop fluid transfer. The “open loop” product transfer uses a single bottom loading arm. A combination of two bottom loading arms is used simultaneously for “closed loop” product transfer. Closed loop product transfer is necessary for low density liquids.

Kanon loading arms are equipped with five swivel joints and a multi-spring balance cylinder. The use of Kanon balance cylinders ensures that bottom loading arms can be maneuvered through all positions with minimal effort.

Bottom loading arm

liquid

Load or unload liquids from the top of the tanks safely and securely for trucks, railcars, small or big containers, ISO containers, drums of 220 liters, etc.


<h2>Safe, hassle-free loading from the top of the tank</h2>
KANON top loading arms come in different designs depending on the application. These can be open filling systems as they are commonly used in for a wide range of products across all industry sectors. But they can also be designed for closed filling for highly aggressive liquids associated with the chemical and petrochemical industries.

Loading arms can be executed with or without vapour return or pressure line. They can outfit with top level detection (bubble pipe sensing or electronic). A telescopic drop pipe can be integrated to prevent foaming or electrostatic build up. Adding a press down cylinder will prevent arm lifting or add a drop pipe deflector to prevent dripping.

Kanon top loading arms are provided with four swivel joints for the product line and a counterweight or multi-coil spring cylinder balance system.

Top loading arm

A hose or loading arm is needed when you load or unload fluids from a ship or transfer fluids between vessel and shore. If you want a safer, easier to operate and longer service life than a hose, a marine loading arm is the ideal solution.


<h2>Marine loading arms to meet liquid loading needs</h2>
Kanon Marine loading arms are manufactured in line with the latest requirements of OCIMF and major oil companies. It permits emergency release action without any spillage of product and without pollution. Kanon marine loading arms require minimal maintenance and all product seals can be replaced without scaffolding or dismantling the loading arm itself.

KANON’s single counterweight balance system enables both hydraulically and manually operated arms to be maneuvered easily and safely, saving both time and manpower.

Marine loading arm

Handling products from the pharmaceutical and chemical industries requires careful attention and extreme caution as some products may be toxic or sensitive to environmental exposure. To address these issues, an isolation system or sealed environment is necessary for loading and unloading products to and from the drums. This improves the safety of the facility and its operators.


<h2>Safe discharging of pharmaceutical and chemical products inside drums</h2>
The Drum Emptying system from Dec, is a solution for safe discharging of pharmaceutical and chemical products contained in drums during production. The Drum Containment System is equipped with a stainless-steel cylindrical glove box with a glass cover and two glove ports. The system can accommodate drums of various sizes with a wide range of accessories for applications based on required containment levels. The glove box enables the operator to connect the drum liners within a sealed environment before a powder transfer system moves the product through a suction lance. The system is easy to clean and available in different materials depending on the product application.

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Drum emptying system

The essential objectives of containment systems are personnel protection and preventing the release of toxic or infectious material into the environment. Containment is also used to prevent a product or sample from contamination by the external environment. In the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, containment solutions are used to protect the personnel from the leaking of airborne particles of hazardous substances, as powders or liquids are handled or transferred during processing.

Containment

Industrial feeding systems allows you to control the flow of solid bulk materials throughout the manufacturing line. After loading your material onto the vibrating hopper, a screw at the base drives it out in uniform doses to the next stage of processing. New feeding technologies are designed to deal with challenges of powders clumping together in the hopper (bridging and ratholing) that interrupt the outflow. Common feeder systems include centrifugal feeders, vibratory feeders as well as elevator, linear and pneumatic feeders.

Feeding

<span style="font-weight: 400">At last, you reached the final stage of processing your product - welcome to the packing world! Packing preserves and protects a product from damage, spoilage, and contamination while it makes its way from the production line to the consumer or further production. Depending on which industry your products belong to, the type of primary packaging equipment can change drastically. You need to pay careful attention to products with </span><span style="font-weight: 400">chemicals or hazardous substances since they can be potentially dangerous to human health. </span>

Packing

Loading powder from a container source to vessels, tanks, or mixers that are under pressure may be hazardous as it tends to explode due to electrostatic charging from collision of the powder particles. Controlling the batch loading of powder particles avoids the risk of explosion and integrating this system into other loading processes can increase safety, hygiene, and production output.


<h2>Loading powders in vessels safely by using both pressure and vacuum</h2>
The PTS powder transfer system from Dec, is a system that uses pressure and vacuum to transfer dry or wet powder and granules from a source to the loading access of vessels, tanks, or reactors. These include very fine powders (&lt;1 micron), wet and cohesive powders (above 50% wetness, as well as low MIE powders (&lt;1 mJ). The system drives the powder into the vessels with no product retention, no particle damage, no segregation, and very low electrostatic charging. It is equipped with a filtration concept using a flat membrane that enables dense phase conveying at a low velocity of 1-3m/s and powder concentrations of 50 to 150 kg powder per kg air. It is also available in an explosion-proof design that can handle 10 bars. The system is hygienic and easy to clean with no need for dismantling.

Powder transfer system

Handling

Scraps are an inevitable byproduct of biscuit and bread production. While these can be sold on as scraps to recoup some of the loss, this involves collection and storage and additional handling. By integrating a rework system into your biscuit or bread production line you can turn scraps into powder ingredients that can be fed straight back into the line, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.


<h2>Low-cost reworking solution for biscuit and bread production lines</h2>
The Biscuit Re-Work system from Cepi is an automatic biscuit scrap processing, storage and pneumatic delivery system designed specifically for the bakery industry.

Offering excellent returns on a moderate investment, the Biscuit Re-Work system operates via manual loading into a high-efficiency cutting mill.  Pneumatic conveying takes the milled powder to a self-contained holding vessel where it can then be sent for packing or returned to your biscuit line.

Features include a built-in magnet to remove metallic contaminants, dust filtration for the storage tank, and all-stainless steel construction for durability and easy clean down.

Automatic rework system for biscuit and bread scrap

Milling machines are used to reduce the size of material by cutting, crushing, or grinding it. The choice of industrial milling equipment depends on the industry and the materials to work with. Besides, there is a significant difference between those aimed to remove layers from metal or other materials workpieces and those designed to reduce particle size for materials that come in bulk.

Milling

Capsules are a popular method of dosage delivery for a wide range of compounds. For anything other than the smallest of lab-scale production, the manual loading of capsules into trays prior to filling is a time-consuming bottleneck in the process. An automatic or semi-automatic capsule loader can massively increase the throughput and efficiency of your small to medium scale production.
<h2>Automatic and semi-automatic solution for capsule filling tray loading</h2>
The MS 1 from Multigel is an automatic capsule loader designed to complement the MS 6 AUT capsule filler as part of an automatic capsule production system.

Available in full and semi-automatic options, the MS 1 can quickly align and load batches of either 150 or 300 capsules into filling trays. The MS 1 is able to fill a 300-capacity tray in under 40 seconds, offering a throughput of up to 30,000 capsules per hour.

Designed for maximum flexibility, the MS 1 can align, and load capsules sized from 000 to 5. Its footprint is only 410mm x 700mm meaning it can be placed in the most convenient place for workflow to the capsule filler.

Cleaning is swift and straightforward thanks to all product-contacting parts being easily and quickly removable. This reduces time taken in cleaning and maintenance.

Automatic capsule loader

The production of pharmaceuticals and other hygienic products often requires the handling of large and bulky containers such as drums, barrels and other vessels. A standard hydraulic handling solution is not compatible with the stringent hygiene requirements of these specialist processes, and the costs involved in converting such systems are high. A bespoke, cGMP-designed solution tailored to your exact requirements will enable you to efficiently and safely handle a range of products and container types.
<h2>Handling systems specifically designed for hygienic use</h2>
The PalPharmaMove range from Palamatic is a set of manual, pneumatic or electrically driven cGMP handling systems designed for movement of drums, barrels, boxes, IBCs, and other containers between process areas.

Based on the principles behind the highly successful PalPharmaHoist and PalPharmaTip series, the PalPharmaMove uses hydraulic-free actuation and is offered with a wide range of options including FDA approved seals and gaskets and a range of platforms, forks and cradles.

The PalPharmaMove K9 is a drum truck with full powered drive that’s capable of gripping and inverting, making it perfect for both transport and unloading duties. With a two drive controller and battery pack, the PalPharmaMove is a true mobile solution. The base unit has a wheel-in-motor traction drive with rudder steering assembly and forward/reverse finger rocker switch. It has a 1900mm mast which gives a high mast giving 1200mm stroke and a 250kg carrying capacity.

The PalPharmaMove M7 is a manual push trolley variant with actuated telescopic mast offering up to 3200mm of stroke. Operation can be electric or pneumatic, and the M7 is capable of carrying up to 275kg. In pneumatic format, the M7 is approved for ATEX environments.

The PalPharmaMove drum trolley variants are also available in either fixed mast or manual raise and lower formats for the efficient transport of drums, containers, bottles, boxes and sacks between process areas. Again, a wide variety of end effectors is available, making it an ideal solution for simple transport, docking and lifting tasks. ATEX versions are also available.

Mobile drum lifter

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries utilise high speed tube fillers on large-scale production lines. Automated tube unloading and feeding systems that operate with high speed and accuracy are required to supply the tube fillers with a constant stream of empty tubes. The flexibility to handle all types of tube material and to quickly adjust to a variety of sizes and shapes maximise efficiency and increases uptime.</span>


<h2><b>Ultimate high capacity and high speed tube feeder</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZ Tube feeding system consists of four machine variations and two sizes. When used in combination, this high-performance system is capable of supplying up to 300 empty tubes per minute to feed the highest performing tube filling machines.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ Series can handle tubes of diameter 12.7 mm to 60 mm, and input cartons up to 650x600x265 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ uses it’s own transport conveyor, onto which boxes are manually placed which are loaded with empty tubes with open ends facing up.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The high speed system uses mandrills to pick up the tubes, from where stripper rakes deposit them on the conveyor and into the filling machine, emptying the input boxes row by row.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple to use human/machine interface makes product changeover simple. The operator only has to select the relevant program and new values are set automatically. The pickup mandrills and stripper rakes are changed for the appropriate sizes and operations can begin again. This reduces the downtime associated with changeovers.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZ system is fully self-contained with its own drive system, and can be operated standalone unit with an associated filler machine if required.</span>

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Tube unloader and feeder

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Low speed tube-filling machines are used for small scale production lines in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Traditionally low speed machines relied on manual feed of empty tubes, slowing the production process and using additional human resource. Automated feed-in systems can greatly improve efficiency by delivering empty tubes instantly and accurately to the filler machine input. Loading systems are available in a variety of formats, including the hopper feed.</span>


<h2>Low-cost manual feeder with anti-jam features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZT Tube Feeder has been designed specifically to accurately feed tubes for slower speed automated fill machines operating at up to 90 tubes per minute maximum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZT uses a tube storage hopper fitted with a fold down front panel which makes the manual loading of empty tubes quick and easy.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Able to feed tubes made of any material and of diameters from 11 mm to 60 mm, the TZT features a rapid changeover feature, meaning that changing tube size only requires resetting the rear panel and replacing a small number of size-related parts. This minimizes downtime associated with product changes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZT features a highly effective separating rocker device that preventing tubes from jamming in the storage hopper. An additional pusher assembly then ensures that the tubes roll safely onto the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">feeder chute into the tube filler.</span>

Tube feeder for a small scale production tube filler

To ensure the safety of operator while working between a loading platform and road or rail tankers, folding stairs and safety cages are essential to provide safe and efficient means of access.


<h2>Folding stairs and safety cages for safe operation</h2>
Kanon Folding Stairs and Safety Cages are built to latest safety standards. The spring-balanced design ensures easy operation by a single operator.

The Safety Movable Stairs (SMS) provide the possibility to access almost any side of the road or rail tanker or container. The safety cages are available at sizes of 1400 mm deep and width ranging from 1400 mm up to 12000 mm. Pneumatic or hydraulic operation is possible.

Folding stairs and safety cages

The use of several different tools for lifting, de-dusting, and polishing in the pharmaceutical industry can be time-consuming in performing all three steps separately. The users face quality issues like non-uniformity in lifting, griminess in de-dusting, and inappropriate appearance in the production and packaging of products like capsules, tablets, and softgels. To cope with such quality issues, an automated and user-friendly solution would be a good choice for the pharmaceutical industry, saving time and maintaining the product's overall quality.
<h2>Lifting, De-dusting, and Polishing of Tablets through Automation</h2>
HELIX, a machine series of Sensum, is an automated vertical lifter, de-duster, and polisher. Tablets, capsules, and softgel of different shapes and sizes can be used. The machine simultaneously lifts, de-dust, and polishes required tablets, capsules, and softgels. The products material is vertically lifted, de-dusted by constant air supply, and polished gently by a rotational spiral brush. It is user-friendly as the formatting of parts is not required. It has an ergonomic tool-free design with modular parts, which makes it simple and flexible to use in different scenarios and heights. The compact and mobile machine finds its applications in tablet processing or coating, bottle filling, blistering, metal checking, capsule filling, and weighting. It can also provide inline peripherals, containment solutions, and autonomous quality control.

Lifter and De-duster for Tablets

Industrial cleaning equipment is used to wash or disinfect machinery and the production/warehouse area. It may also be used to sterilize the product, equipment, tools, floor or work surfaces and to purify or clean the product by removing impurities. Choosing a suitable cleaning system depends on the type of product or equipment to be cleaned, the sensitivity of the product to heat, pressure, and chemicals, and the level of sterility desired.

Cleaning

Thermoforming

Desiccant canisters play an important role in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. They ensure that medicines are preserved and not affected by moisture, mold, rust, and micro-organisms. Inserting desiccants manually inside pharmaceutical or nutraceutical bottles can be very time consuming. Having automated solution might help increasing efficiency and saving costs.
<h2>An efficient solution for inserting desiccant into containers</h2>
The CVC’s 1112 Canister Desiccant Inserter is designed to sort and dispense desiccant barrels into containers. It operates at a speed of up to 150 bottles per minute and can run independently or be integrated into an automated packaging line. The machine is fully automated, controlled by a programmable logic control (PLC) system and servo motor. It can be programmed to allow the insertion of up to 5 desiccant canisters per container without any additional changing parts.

The Canister Desiccant has a small discharge passage with an insertion gate right next to the bottle opening, for positive insertion of desiccants. It is equipped with precision photoelectric sensors to make its operation extremely accurate. It also has a front safety guard which, when opened allows to stop the machine automatically.

Dessicant inserting machine

Pharmaceutical packaging industry requires the ability to quickly manage the process yet achieve efficiency. Having a reliable bottle unscrambler can assure your pharmaceutical plastic bottles are prepared faster for the next step in the packaging process, which helps to reduce production time, save costs, and increase the overall output.
<h2>Effective packaging solution for pharmaceutical bottles</h2>
The CVC’s 1266 Bottle Unscrambler is a variable packaging solution developed to automatically feed empty plastic bottles from a bin and place them on a conveyor. The empty bottles are received in bulk which are then lifted and deposited. The unscrambler orients, processes, and positions the bottles onto a moving conveyor for further downstream processing. The machine can handle up to 200-250 empty bottles per minute, either running independently or being integrated into an automated packaging line.

The Pharmaceutical bottle unscrambler is equipped with a Human Machine Interface (HMI) panel, which accelerate the working process. The machine can also be equipped with ionized air rinse assembly, sensors to detect upside down bottle, fallen bottle reject assembly, sensors to check hopper level, tower lamp and static eliminator bar.

Pharmaceutical bottle unscrambler

Bottling equipment draws a measured quantity of your drink, food, or formulation from a holding tank and fills it into bottles. These bottles usually need to be checked, capped, labeled, and sealed for distribution. Bottling solutions differ in product metering system, sterilization level, and bottle type and sealing system depending on your production scale and product format and regulations. Bottling systems are utilized in a variety of industries. For example, in the food and beverage industry as well as in cosmetics and pharma.

Bottling

Vacuum manual handling systems are the ideal way of quickly and safely moving small to medium sized loads in all production environments. However, for pharmaceutical or clean food production the entire system needs to be constructed to GMP standards. A dedicated GMP crane and support system for your vacuum handler ensures regulatory compliance as well as provides easy cleaning and maintenance.
<h2>Cranes and supports for manual handling systems in pharmaceutical and clean production environments</h2>
The PalPharmaTrac system from Palamatic is a complete range of overhead support systems for the PalPharmaVac handling systems.

PalPharmaTrac stainless steel jib, bridge and monorail cranes are designed specifically with hygienic and

room environments in mind. The unique profile shape reduces hang-up points for airborne dust particles and makes wipe down and wash down easier than flanged or tunnel track rail systems, reducing downtime.

The crane system has a closed track design with external trolleys. This eliminates the risk of paint chipping associated with conventional systems that use open flange, I-beam or tunnel track.

All trolleys and end truck wheels are manufactured with FDA-approved materials, and white acetyl co-polymer is used as standard for all trolley wheels.

Structural and fastening components used in PalPharmaTrac are all stainless steel. This high strength gives excellent flexibility, allowing for wall-mounting, ceiling-mounting, and fixed floor or mobile base options. The standard jib crane can handle loads of up to 350kg.

Where headroom is low, for example in clean room or isolation booth environments, an inverted or articulated jib option can be used. This provides the ideal solution for tighter work spaces.

GMP Jib crane

Container handling in the pharmaceutical industry brings its own set of unique challenges. Traditional barrel and container handling solutions can be bulky and unsuitable for use in restricted environments like clean rooms or containment booths. A dedicated cGMP handling solution increases operator safety and productivity while maintaining hygienic requirements in difficult operating environments.
<h2>Pneumatic lifting solution for any pharmaceutical powder transfer vessel</h2>
The PalPharmAssist from Palamatic is an innovative pneumatic lifting and handling solution that has been designed to work with all container types used within the pharmaceutical industry, including barrels, boxes, sacks, flasks, bottles, reels, drums, and many more.

Available in 316L stainless steel with full cGMP compliance, the PalPharmAssist is ideal for work in containment booths, clean rooms, and for high containment transfer operations.

Available with a huge range of end effectors, the PalPharmAssist can be tailored to your exact requirements. Options include clamps, suction heads, grippers, tipping and rotating features, and more.

Articulation arms offer a wide range of movement, and are all produced to cGMP standards. In additional, PalPharmAssist is suitable for ATEX environments to Zone1/21 T4.

With a load capacity of up to 500kg, very low operating noise levels, and requiring only a single clean, dry, oil-free compressed air supply to operate, the PalPharmAssist offers the ultimate in flexibility and utility for pharmaceutical container lifting.

Container lifter

Moving larger or heavier containers from height is out of the scope for standard handling equipment. Where large format containers need to discharge into a vessel from above, or where they need to feed into a packaging line, a bespoke lifting system that is built to robust pharmaceutical standards offers an ideal solution.
<h2>Container lifter suitable to handle up to 2000kg loads</h2>
The PalPharmaHoist from Palamatic is a custom-built mobile or static solution for lifting large and heavy drums or IBC containers. The height of PalPharmaHoist is ranging from 2m up to 11m.

A large range of container handling options can be fitted, including simple forks, drum cradle, and platforms. Each can have a range of movement options including rotation and slewing.

PalPharmaHoist is hydraulic-free, with the option of pneumatic or electrical actuation and is completely suitable for ATEX environments to Zone 1/21 T4.

Operator control is via two-handed “dead man” operation with the option to specify PLC or EPROM control.

Example application includes discharge of product into a reactor, thus removing the need for a separate platform.

Pharmaceutical container lifter

In the production of pharmaceuticals and other high-hygiene environments, manual handling of inputs or intermediate compounds can be difficult to achieve using traditional methods while maintaining cleanliness levels. A vacuum lifter can not only meet the full HSE requirements for manual lifting but also can be produced to meet FDA and cGMP standards suitable for use in clean room environments and other critical production areas.
<h2>100kg vacuum lifter for sacks, boxes and drums</h2>
The PalPharmaVac from Palamatic is a high capacity manual handling device designed specifically for use in hygienic, clean and sterile applications. The PalPharmaVac is configured to allow sacks, drums, totes and boxes to be lifted to an ergonomic height to ensure operators are exposed to minimal risk from potentially hazardous products.

Able to be suspended from a wide range of transport solutions, including articulated arms, linear beams, and cranes, the PalPharmaVac uses a specially-designed filtration system that ensures no downstream component contamination. It can operate with electrical or pneumatic vacuum sources, and is approved for flameproof environments.

The suction feet use FDA-approved materials, and it is able to securely grip up to 100kg. Additional options include manual or pneumatic drum rotation, bespoke configurations to suit low headroom applications and use in downflow or containment booths.

Its lightweight and hand-demountable design reduces maintenance requirements and makes it very easy to clean, with no tools required.

Vacuum sack lifter

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In modern pharmaceutical production, end-line processes are often still manual or slow. This can cause a bottleneck, reducing the capacity of lines to run at full efficiency. A modern, robotic tray loader for pharmaceutical vials can hugely increase production efficiency and generate a rapid return on investment.</span>
<h2>Robotic vial tray loader with easy changeover and cleaning</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The RTL Robotic Tray Loader from Steriline is a fully automated, high-throughput end-line vial packing solution for modern pharmaceutical production lines.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Engineered for the packing of sealed vials and cartridges from 2R to 100H, the RTL can operate at speeds of up to 42,000 pcs/h with complete accuracy. It is able to achieve this thanks to a simultaneous packing and vial preparation mechanic.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The RTL features a SCARA loader with a dedicated robot cleaning position, making maintenance and cleaning quick and simple, minimising downtime.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Vials are prepared for packing on a “dead plate” using a quincunx pattern to a pre-set number of rows. Electronic adjustment of all parameters ensures a rapid changeover to different vial sizes, with an intuitive touch screen HMI for operation and monitoring. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Steriline RTL is fully compliant with all relevant cGMP, GAMP and 21CFR Part11 requirements.</span>

Automatic vial tray loader

<span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance tube-filling machines are used for large scale production of pharmaceutical and cosmetic products. Automated feed systems must be able to match the high throughput speeds of the filling machine whilst maintaining perfect feed of the empty tubes to minimize downtime associated with jams or obstructions. They need to store an adequate number of tubes to reduce time spent refilling.</span>


<h2>Extensive uninterrupted tube feeding for high speed tube filling machines</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The IWK TZF is designed to reliable feed empty tubes to the highest speed filling machines. Capable of handling all tube types, the TZF can supply up to 220 tubes per minute on a continuous basis with diameters of 10 mm to 63.5 mm.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">To meet the demands of high speed filling machine, the TZF storage magazine can handle the contents of cartons up to 600x600x265 mm, keeping time between refills to a minimum.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Tubes are manually loaded into the TZF magazine where they are then carefully and gently aligned into a single continuous row to be fed into the filler.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">A dedicated sensor monitors the minimum/maximum fill of the magazine as a backup to the highly visible transparent unit.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TZF tube filler has its own drive system and can be used as a complete standalone unit if required.</span>

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Tube feeding unit for high volume and high speed tube filler

<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

When looking for capping equipment, it is crucial to know first which type of capper your product requires. Do you want screw caps, twist-off caps, hand pumps, or push-pull caps on your bottle or container? If you require different cap types for format changeover times can be time-consuming. The bottle cap seals the top opening of a bottle to guard the product against leakage and spoilage and sterility and filling requirements depend on the nature of your product.

Capping

Dosing systems are a line of hoppers, feeders, filling machines, and checkweighers that operate in sync to dispense materials accurately. Dosing is an essential feature of the packaging process, whether you’re filling shampoo bottles or tea bags. But dosing equipment is critical for formulations, too, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Imprecise dosing may cause quality degradation in the best-case scenario. In the worst scenario, it creates serious health risks.

Dosing

<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;">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;">A wide variety of pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food products require tube-style packaging. An automated tube-filler adds flexibility to production lines by not only filling, sealing and capping tubes with high levels of accuracy, but also offering additional features such as labelling and in-built quality checks.</span>


<h2>Tube filler with additional flexible features</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-15 from IWK is an automatic tube filling machine that operates in the lower speed range, and is suitable for moderate scale production lines. It features 10 workstations that can handle tubes from 10 to 60mm diameter and can accurately dose from between 1.5 ml and 400 ml of product at up to 90 tubes per minute. High-precision dosing is guaranteed by an infinitely variable, play-free direct pump drive.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The highly flexible TFS-15 allows for rapid changeover between tube and product types. Product-handling parts are changed out as one unit. Sizing parts can be simply and quickly changed out without the use of tools. These minimise downtime associated with product changes.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The TFS-15 also offers two-component filling and the ability to fill applicators, expanding the range of products it can be used with. Labelling can be achieved with laser or inkjet printing as well as embossing.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Designed to deliver constant high quality tube folding or sealing, the TFS-15 has inbuilt quality control checking that will detect and eject bad tube seals and incorrectly fitted or missing caps.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Suitable for use with a wide range of products, the TFS-15 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>

A two-component filling application tube filler

After being used to contain the blood of martyrs after death or to store the anointing oil of French monarchs, today ampoules are the first choice in packaging injectables. You create ampoules by melting the glass tube into the desired shape and seal them at the neck by melting the top of the glass tube. The only way for you to extract the contents from an ampoule is by breaking the glass at its breaking point, making it perfect for single dose applications only.

Ampoules

The waste oils from cooking in your kitchen could be transformed to biodiesel. Oily biomass such as soybean, animal fats, or recycled grease make excellent feedstocks to produce high quality alternative transport fuel. Materials are combined with an alcohol in a transesterification reactor that converts the mass into crude biodiesel. The finished product is a low-sulfur, biodegradable fuel that can be used in its pure formulation or in petroleum diesel fuel blends.

Biodiesel

Biscuits are confectionery products that contain mostly flour, which you mix and bake with other ingredients as sweet or savory snacks. Biscuit production involves four primary processes: mixing, forming, baking, and cooling. For you to perform these processes, you need basic biscuit processing equipment, including mixers, molders/cutters, and ovens.

Biscuits

Broth

Electrolyte drinks

Fodder

The two-piece capsule is a visual shorthand for all types of medical remedies. Advances in technology have made the production of hard-gelatin capsules a convenient delivery method for drugs and other ingested substances. But the simple solution requires micrometric precision to be manufactured to the proper pharmaceutical standards.

Hard gelatin capsules

Industry sees a future powered by hydrogen fuel. The chemical element is an excellent energy carrier that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions across sectors without upending economic models. The tricky part, however, is extracting it in its pure form.

Hydrogen

Colors present an enduring philosophical problem that generates lofty debates about subjectivism and consciousness. Meanwhile, ink manufacturing equipment turns colors into physical objects. Perhaps paradoxically, digitalization keeps fueling the use of printing ink. From custom clothing to secondary packaging to aircraft livery, inks are everywhere. Indeed, philosophical discussions are also primarily conducted in ink on paper.

Legend has it that the word ‘marmalade’ is a derivate of “Marie est Malade”. Supposedly, the acidic-sweet mixture was offered to Marie Antoinette when the Queen of France fell malade. Whatever the true origins of the name, marmalade processing equipment has quickly made the golden spread a pick-me-up for the masses.

Marmalade

Muesli, known as the adults’ cereal, is a loose mixture of rolled oats, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and dried fruits. Unlike granola, the muesli manufacturing process goes through rather simple steps. All of the ingredients are combined in the mixer without any specific cooking or baking process. This loose mixture is then packed individually, either in stand-up pouches, paper bags, paper tube and so on.

Muesli

White, black and brown seeds from the mustard plant are the key constituents of this colorful and classic condiment. The various mustard production technology includes a mixer that mixes the mustard seeds with a handful of other ingredients and a mill that finely grinds the seeds to impart their characteristic flavor.

Mustard

Toast spread, oatmeal topping or salad dressing - nut butter can be used in various ways. Although in a culinary sense classified as such, peanuts, almonds, cashews and pecans, the popular choices for nut butter are, botanically speaking, not nuts. They are processed in a series of nut butter processing equipment to get the creamy, rich product ready for consumption.

Nut butter

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

Painting as an integral aspect of the human tradition dates to thousand years ago. Of the many properties of the product, the drying time is important to consumers. The thickness of the paint and environmental factors like humidity affect this parameter. Paint manufacturing equipment must include a humidity test chamber to assess the behavior of paint under different weather conditions.

Paint

To put into perspective, the average number of peanuts that you use to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter is 540 pieces. Peanut butter is widely used as a spread for most bread and biscuits. To make it, use raw peanuts and process them using peanut butter making machines.

Peanut butter

Pistachio nuts offer several health benefits and are very nutritious. The most common way they are enjoyed is when they are roasted or eaten raw. Generally, pistachios are harvested when the shell splits. They are mechanically shaken and caught in a tarp. Furthermore, you can hull and dry them properly before roasting. To achieve all of this, you will need special pistachio processing equipment

Pistachios

Salad dressing has found its way onto dinner plates for millennia as a quick way to liven up leafy dishes. Experimentation with oil, vinegar, wine, salt, and other ingredients developed into the broad selection of dressings we enjoy today. Through a process of emulsifying the basic formula, adding additional elements, and then bottling and labeling the final mixture, consumers have easy access to reliable tastes on demand.

Salad dressing

Cosmetic serums are a very light formulation with a high density of active ingredients dispersed in oil, water, or gel. This makes serums well suited to the delivery of vitamins, antioxidants, and anti-aging ingredients, but provide less moisturization and protection. Serum production is mainly divided into stages related to optimal mixing and preventing degradation of the active ingredients.

Serums

Despite only one letter difference, silicon and silicone are two different things. While silicon is the 14th chemical element on the periodic table, silicone is a synthetic material that, among other chemical elements, contains silicon. Although commonly observed as plastic, technically silicone is rubber. Among others, silicone processing equipment mainly involves several high-temperature machines, mixers and molds.

Silicone

Sulphur

Tomato sauce is a popular ingredient for adding a sweet, slightly acidic touch of flavor to food and recipes. Sauce production involves cooking the tomatoes, removing the seeds and stems with a strainer, using a grinder or milling machine, and then further cooking to the desired consistency. Tomato sauce making equipment is used in industrial production to speed up the various preparation steps while maintaining the quality of the sauce.

Tomato sauce

Chewy, sweet, and nutritious. Vitamin gummies were a couple’s attempt to get their child to take their essential micronutrients. The idea quickly caught on, and manufacturing vitamin gummies soon grew into a whole new industry.

Vitamin gummies

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