10/11/2009Telstar Clean Air Technology applied in the development of a complete Pharmaceutical Capper & Vial Wash Containment System

Telstar North America has developed a customized application for one of the major pharmaceutical companies in the United States.

Telstar's range of equipment and ability to engineer integrated solutions is benefiting a major pharmaceutical company in the United States.  Telstar North America designed a complete pharmaceutical Capper & Vial Wash Containment System according to customer specifications. Telstar assembled an international project team comprising  Telstar ACE in the Uk (aseptic and containment isolators) Clean Air Technology in the Netherlands, (biological safety cabinets) and FP Developments in the USA (materials handling) in order to address the project requirements.

Part of the project involved design of a solution to protect four operators during manual wipe-down decontamination of vials being transferred from a Telstar lyophilizer through a capping operation and on through the biological safety cabinets on a conveying line.

The solution is based on EN12469:2000 certified Clean Air Technology Series EuroFlow Class II biological safety cabinets, type EF that provide operator, product and environmental protection. Two 6ft cabinets are joined to each other via a leak tight connection and are equipped with additional sensors, bag out connections, pass-throughs and the newest release of software to support Vapor Phase Hydrogen Peroxide (VPHP) sterilization (including aeration time mode).

Again, Telstar proved its expertise and flexibility in customizing standard cabinets to completely validated and documented solutions according to customer specific requirements. Configuring the standard equipment offered a sound solution while also providing favourable cost and delivery to the client.