Product/Service

Filling Line Isolators For Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Source: Extract Technology

Extract designs custom filling isolators to suit individual customer requirements with full third party filling equipment integration. Filling machine isolators are designed to enclose the filling, stoppering and capping operations of a Powder or Liquid Filling Machine while providing an aseptic environment for the process, achieving ISO 5 grade A classification. 

Filling Machine Isolators are designed...

to enclose the filling, stoppering and capping operations of a Powder or Liquid Filling Machine while providing an aseptic environment for the process, achieving ISO 5 grade A classification. This isolator allows for the entry of pre-sterilized stoppers and caps through a Rapid Transfer Port (RTP). Powder is also presented into the Isolator via the RTP. Glassware is transferred to the isolator in separate transfer isolators. The Transfer Isolator “docks” to the filling isolator via a RTP and the trays of glassware are manually positioned on the accumulator of the filling machine. The vials are automatically moved by the filling machine through the filling, stoppering and capping stations and exit through a “mouse hole” in the end wall of the isolator. A conveyor carries the vials from the Isolator under an external unidirectional airflow module and into the adjoining packaging room.

Design advantages

  • Ergonomically designed oval
  • 316L stainless steel construction
  • PLC control
  • Positive pressure airflow system with HEPA filtration and a self-contained unidirectional airflow system
  • Special “mouse hole” protected by unidirectional airflow for exit of filled vials
  • Integrated Hydrogen Peroxide decontamination
  • Temperature control to maintain the Isolator at ambient temperature with high/low set points.