FPS Food and Pharma Systems is a leading company in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical fields, developing, manufacturing and installing worldwide its own range of Fine Size Reduction machines and Containment Solutions (Sterile and Highly Potent API).

One of the most important projects of this year has been the construction of a production scale sterile contained micronization system that was delivered to a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Spain last July.

Sterile Contained PM8 Micronizing systems

The equipment, designed to be installed across different floors, is composed of a glovebox to discharge the batches from a filter dryer without affecting the product sterility; a jet mill isolator provides a confined environment in which the product is micronized; downflow booths are integrated on the airlocks of the pack-off isolator to guarantee the high sterility grade.

The system is fully automated. FPS internally develops the software that controls all the equipment functionalities. The machine is sterilized with both hot steam and VHP.

The ground-breaking unit will allow the customer to complete different phases of a sterile production of APIs avoiding the risk of contaminating the product and reducing the operator’s exposure to the potent compound.