aseptic mixers, fermentation, hydrogenation systems, antibiotics, turbine impeller configurations, vaccines

For 75 years LIGHTNIN has worked with pharmaceutical manufacturers to optimize processing systems and process results through innovations in mixing technology. This includes the introduction of hydrofoil impellers for flow controlled mixing applications, the development and customization of fermentation scale-up parameters, the launch of the first all stainless sanitary mixer and the recent introduction of up-pumping impeller technology for fermentation and hydrogenation systems.

>From micro-processor controlled laboratory mixers for research to magnetically driven stainless steel units and full scale fermenters, LIGHTNIN offers the widest range of aseptic mixing equipment on the market. LIGHTNIN also has a worldwide service organization that installs commissions, maintains and repairs mixing systems in clean room environments. And LIGHTNIN now has a quality assurance documentation program to add customers in their validation process.

In the 1930s, LIGHTNIN helped pharmaceutical manufacturers revolutionize the production of antibiotics by introducing oxygen into culture broths. During the 1950s, LIGHTNIN introduced the multiple Rushton turbine impeller configurations commonly used in pharmaceutical fermentation. In the 1990s, LIGHTNIN's up-pumping technology is taking pharmaceutical fermentation a quantum leap ahead.

Today, you can find LIGHTNIN mixers at work in both upstream and downstream pharmaceutical processes, including the production of:

vaccines

blood factors

antibiotics

injectable solutions

mammalian cell cultures