Building on SP Hotpack's reputation for reliability and customer satisfaction, these stability chambers represent the ultimate in quality craftsmanship. High quality, corrosion resistant design allows for continuous use without fear of failure or downtime. Temperature and humidity are precisely controlled to meet ICH and other testing standards.

Flexible for Small Batch and High-Speed Applications
For full line vial applications that include freeze dryers, SP offers a unique row-by-row (RxR) loading system for higher-speed applications, accommodating loading speeds up to 400 vials per minute. Semi-Automatic Loading SP’s semi-automatic loading system is specifically designed for smaller batch applications that include freeze dryers.

Complete In-line Decontamination
SP Hull external vial washers are regularly used to clean the outside vial surfaces to minimize false rejects during inspection, and to clean vials filled with potent drugs. The SP range of compact in-line vial decontaminating machines includes the EVW–60 for up to 100 vials per minute, and the EVW–100 for throughputs in excess of 400 vials per minute. The EVW-100 can also have glove ports, a wash down wand and an air handling system with bag in and bag out filters to ensure sterility and containment.

The CRS, BI and LI models from SP enable processing at 200 caps per minute for aseptic applications. Crimp cappers control the vertical force during the closing operation by means of servo drives. For screw capping, torques can be monitored and recorded using a strain gauge option to increase vial protection.

Versatile and Complete Sterile Filling Solutions
SP offer a choice of machines and dispensing methods for liquid filling of oral and ophthalmic bottles, vials, syringes and cartridges. All offer the dependable sterility, accuracy and speed essential for the pharmaceutical sectors, whilst also meeting the highest quality and accuracy expectations of GMP and FDA regulations.

Fully Automatic Sterilization
There are several different methods of inactivating pyrogens, including bacterial endotoxin’s, on vial surfaces. The most common and effective way is through dry heating to above 250°C, and both manually loaded ovens for smaller batch sizes and continuous production depyrogenation tunnels have been used. SP provides a range of fully automatic sterilization/depyrogenate and tunnels for vials, in a variety of sizes including production rates in excess of 700 vials per minute. At just five feet in length, our smallest depyrogenation tunnel is ideally suited for laboratory and small batch applications.

Effective and Efficient Vial Washing
Vial washing cleans the vials of particulate matter and microorganisms; however traditional vial washers have many moving parts, which can themselves generate particulates. SP Hull vial washers have just two moving parts in their washing chamber to ensure highly effective cleaning and their main drive is servo driven. Each vial format has a Human Machine Interface (HMI) selected recipe with specific settings for spray time to help reduce water consumption. Vials are washed without the washing needle entering the vial, thereby eliminating the risk of vials being damaged due to misaligned or bent washing needles.

The Freezemobile Large Capacity Freeze Dryer is available with condenser capacities of 25 or 35 Liters. Condenser refrigeration packages of -53, -70 and -85C are available to allow configuration for a variety of solvents. A wide array of manifolds are available including stainless steel and acrylic, tree or drum manifolds, heated or unheated shelves with bulk or stoppering.

The AdVantage Pro freeze dryer with Intellitronics Controller offers users the benefit of Ethernet communication and email options. Users can monitor their cycles from anywhere they receive email. It offers the convenience of a tray dryer in a benchtop unit.

The Freezemobile Shell Bath, a floor model shell bath available in a -75C configuration, helps to decrease manifold freeze drying time. The FSB rotates the flask on its axis thereby coating the interior surface of the flask with frozen product. 

The Benchmark Freeze Dryers are custom-built production pharmaceutical lyophilizers made to meet pilot, clinical supply and production demands. Meeting your current application demands with an eye toward future demand is what we do best.

Designed specifically for low to medium speed pharmaceutical, biotech and animal health capping applications.

The new CharpyCool is a mechanically refrigerated bench top bath that eliminates the need for costly consumables such as liquid nitrogen or dry ice. Compact and completely self-contained, the CharpyCool offers up to 8 liters of working fluid volume enabling up to 91 Charpy impact test specimens to be accommodated at temperatures between -80°C and +30°C. A powerful variable speed magnetic stirrer and vortex breaker provide excellent temperature uniformity and stability enabling superior results. PID control enables the CharpyCool to sustain precise temperature control to within ± 0.1°C. The CharpyCool includes a digital temperature display, and an optional Charpy Rack is available which allows multiple-specimen loading and easy access to monitor your testing.

The Benchmark Freeze Dryers are custom-built production lyophilizers made to meet pilot, clinical supply and production demands. Benchmark systems are available in a wide variety of configurations and are available in economical round or space saving square tray chambers.

Hotpack glassware washers are manufactured to provide extremely accurate control and years of dependable performance. Hotpack's product line of washers meet almost any glassware washer requirement.

SP Scientific provides the unique collaboration of three well-known commercial freeze drying brands - VirTis, Hull, and FTS. This positions SP Scientific as a premier supplier of pilot and production freeze dryers / lyophilizers for any application, anywhere in the world. We invite you to contact us to see how we can help you build the best freeze dryer in the world for your needs – and in your budget.

The VirTis BenchTop Pro freeze dryers have been designed to meet the needs of the most demanding research laboratories. Each system can be configured to meet present and future needs. Condenser refrigeration packages of -55°C, -75°C, -85°C and -105°C can meet the demands of both aqueous or aqueous-solvent based formulations.

Designed for ease of scale-up, these models are unmatched for capabilities and performance. Designed for pilot and light production scale lyophilization, for both bulk and vial processing, these units come with an extensive list of options.

The Standard (EZ-2) is suitable for water and volatile solvents, while the Plus (EZ-2plus) is recommended for solvents with boiling points upto 165°C.

The miVac Duo Pump is suitable for use with a volatile organic solvents through to water, where as the miVac Quattro Pump is also suitable for use with some higher boiling point solvents. Both pumps have high flow rates to ensure the fastest possible concentration rate.

The miVac Duo is suitable for use with a wide range of solvents, from volatile organic solvents through to water for low sample numbers.

Bio-Cool Controlled-Rate Freezers feature temperatures to -40ºC or -80ºC, eliminate the use, handling, and storage of expendable high-pressure refrigerants (LN2), and Enable in-house cryopreservation capabilities to save time and money.

ThermoJet is a precision-controlled temperature forcing system that delivers an airstream of up to 20 SCFM to rapidly change the temperature of a product or Device Under Test (DUT)...

AirJet XE from FTS Systems delivers full mil-spec temperature range (­-75C to +225C) in a compact benchtop platform and runs on standard 120 volt power

Chillers - Dependable cooling for laboratory applications...

The miVac DNA is an ideal small concentrator for the molecular biology laboratory. This centrifugal concentrator is capable of removing low volumes of water and organic solvents from a variety of sample formats including tubes, microplates, vials, and round bottom flasks.

Developed largely as a consequence of users’ demands, the Rocket Evaporator is designed to dry or concentrate as many as six flasks, each containing up to 450mL of solvent.

Virtis has managed to pack valuable features in this small freeze dryer system for your laboratory needs. The smallest shelf freeze dryer offered, this equipment can be configured with a manual or automated control system and as a bulk or stoppering freeze dryer.

Chillers - Ultra-low temperature recirculators provide maximum heat removal to -90°C...

SP Equipment Service has an expertly staffed Global Service Center to answer your questions regarding your FTS, VirTis,Genevac or Hotpack equipment. We can also arrange to have one of our factory trained service technicians come and service any of your equipment

As the Service and Support arm for the SP Scientific Equipment Manufacturing Divisions, SP TechCare is uniquely qualified to provide for all your validation needs.

Filling and capping machine for eye-drop bottles.

Developed largely as a consequence of users’ demands, the Rocket Evaporator is designed to dry or concentrate as many as six flasks, each containing up to 450mL of solvent.

The Standard (EZ-2) is suitable for water and volatile solvents, while the Plus (EZ-2plus) is recommended for solvents with boiling points upto 165°C.

For laboratories looking to concentrate larger numbers of biological samples presented in a range of different formats the miVac Quattro from Genevac is the perfect high capacity sample concentrator.

The miVac DNA is an ideal small concentrator for the molecular biology laboratory. This centrifugal concentrator is capable of removing low volumes of water and organic solvents from a variety of sample formats including tubes, microplates, vials, and round bottom flasks.

Genevac HT series evaporators are the ideal solution for parallel evaporation bottlenecks in high throughput and production laboratories having high performance and high sample capacities.

The Rocket Evaporator uses patented vacuum technology to evaporate solutions to dryness, or a concentrate, rapidly and safely.

PennTechs customized Automatic Loading/Unloading Systems can be installed as part of a new freeze dryer installation and as retrofit with almost all existing freeze dryers.

The RW-1150 is a high speed  automatic vial washer for pharmaceutical and biotech applications with an output of up to 400 vials/min (2ml). Vial range 2-500ml. (change parts requires). Standard features include:  Recycling of WFI, intermittent spraying and automatic lid lift mechanism.

PennTech offers a state-of-the-art aseptic capping machine, model AC-6. The machine is designed specifically for low to medium speed pharmaceutical, biotech and animal health capping applications.

The FSC-1R is an intermittent-motion filling, stopper inserting, capping machine designed for aseptic applications in a class-100 environment. The machine is designed for vials from 2 ml to 100 ml with an output of 20-30 vials per minute.

A uniquely simple, yet effective, method of loading pharmaceutical vials into the depyrogenation tunnel. 

The TP-1 is compact tunnel loader suitable for sterilizing tunnels with a belt width of up to 600mm. The TP-1 accommodates the full range of pharmaceutical vials, from 2-100ml, without change parts. Even small unstable 2ml vials are gently loaded onto the tunnel belt without tipping over. The TP-1 allows full access to the tunnel infeed area.

The TL-100 is controlled by a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and will handle plastic and glass vials with speeds of up to 200 vials per minute (depending on vial diameter and tray size). It is designed to handle trays up to 610 mm (24") wide (open end) and up to 610 mm (24") deep. Tray materials can be metal, cardboard, corrugated plastic, or rigid plastic.

The TL-200 has two loading platforms (the TL-100 has one), so that two trays are loaded simultaneously. Once the trays are full, the operator replaces one of the loaded trays with an empty one and the machine immediately resumes loading that tray. The operator then replaces the other loaded tray with an empty one. When in place, the machine will resume loading both trays. The process is seamless; there is no additional work to be done or buttons to be depressed by the operator. Once a tray is full, the loading process stops and a yellow light and audible signal indicate that the tray can be replaced.

The AC-6 is a 6-head heavy duty in-line rotary capping machine, GMP Design: all stainless steel construction, with tempered glass doors and windows. 

The RW-500 is the industries smallest automatic vial washer and is designed for low output  pharmaceutical and biotech applications. The output is 40-100 vials/min, dependent on the vial format. Typical batch size: 10,000-25,000 vials. Vial range 2-100 ml (change parts required). Rotary infeed table with automatic loading of the vials into the vial holders. Options include:  Recycling of WFI, intermittent spraying and automatic lid lift mechanism. Changeover time: 20min.

PennTech manufactures an array of standard and custom sanitary conveyors and accumulation tables, including transfer disks. All systems are of the highest quality, completely customizable and direct driven (zero maintenance).

The TP-4 row-by-row tunnel loader is designed for tunnels with belts over 600mm wide.  The benefit of the TP-4 is that the tunnel belt movement can be synchronized with the TP-4 movement at vial format level. This results in an optimum tunnel loading pattern without gaps in the vial pack. This in turn contributes to an even heat distribution in the sterilizing chamber of the tunnel. The TP-4 is PLC-controlled so that the loading speed and travel distance are automatically set per vial format.

Washing vials by hand is quickly becoming a thing of the past. With cGMP issues increasing in Pharma, PennTech has designed and manufactured the perfect aseptic solution to help keep Compounding Pharmacies USP and cGMP Compliant.