Thurne successfully supplies Fermion's Oulu plant with high containment powder handling line for highly potent API production
@fermionoy2799 Fermion is a Finnish company that develops, manufactures, and markets active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) which go into other pharma companies' products. The group has two commercial production sites at Hanko and Oulu in Finland, and at the Oulu plant the focus is on production of cyto-toxic cancer and other high potency drugs on a relatively small scale in batches up to a few hundred kilos. When making these highly potent APIs, the need for safe and secure containment of the ingredients and the products themselves is extremely important to avoid exposure of the workers.
Recently, the company decided it made sense to replace an older vacuum dryer with a modern, flexible, highly secure vacuum dryer. It therefore scanned the market for possible solutions and suppliers.
Eventually it decided that Thurne offered the best combination of high-quality equipment and extensive experience in integrating the components from various suppliers, while working in close cooperation with Fermion. In this way, Fermion was confident that it could achieve its key goal of meeting the task-based containment performance target (CPT) of 0.2 μg/m3 for the APIs.
The integrated new line began operating at Fermion in November of 2022. Site acceptance tests were carried out which verified that the working hygienic conditions were met and that the 0.2 μg/m3 CPT goal was reached. Following this Fermion brought the new vacuum dryer line into production.
The Thurne team, working closely with Fermion, proposed a solution consisting of the following equipment represented by Thurne:
1. Dec charging isolator
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2. @gebr.lodigemaschinenbaugmb2713 Lödige vacuum dryer
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3. @quadrosolidsprocessing1001 Quadro Conical Mill
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4. Dec packing isolator
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5. @lugaiaag5774 Lugaia CLS continuous liner system
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17 сен 2023
