Filling machines: indispensable and vital equipment in Pharmaceutical sector

The role of filling machines in the pharmaceutical sector is quite vital and owing to the utilisation, the machines apparently necessitate certain mandatory constraints during the process of packing.  While most of the safety measures relate to the process of filling, the liquid filling machine is one such machine that necessarily requires proper operational environments and equally good maintenance. And most important of all the fillers or the filling machines must be well protected, sanitised and be absolutely free of microbial contamination. Of all the sectors that use fillers to pack their end products excepting food and beverage, pharmaceutical industry is one such sector that demands a high level of hygiene as well, since the end product either will be used for prophylactic purposes or therapeutic purposes, curing a disease, or fight against any infectious conditions. In a nut shell most of the pharmaceutical products are meant for human and animal consumption whether in liquid or solid / tablet form and hence the condition of the filling machine must have a very high level of cleanliness and aseptic condition. The sterile conditions that are exercised on a typical pharmaceutical filling machine is done in order to ensure that the end product or the pharmaceutical preparation does not become contaminated in any way.

Apart from the superficial requirements like maintaining a sterile environment and so on, there are certain other precautions that the filling machines call for. For instance, the pathway in which the product passes through into the container must provide an absolutely even surface thereby averting any product build up and must enable easy cleaning, leak protection and of course external contamination. To achieve this suitable material must be properly chosen. In this regard stainless steel is the metal of choice since the chances of corrosion and rusting is quite less in comparison to the other metals. The next aspect is the tubing in the machinery, wherever possible there are steel tubes fitted but in certain areas flexible pipes must be used, and in order to achieve the necessary performance. Another aspect that should be noted in these filling machines is that these machines use rinse media like water or other permitted liquid cleansers to clean the containers before filling the product. This removes any debris build-up inside the container thereby protecting the container alongside and preventing any possible contamination. Alongside the usual features that the fillers comprise, in the recent years contemporary technology has paved the way for innovations to be included into the existing features to improvise the performance. Companies like Feigeasia in Singapore have been one of the pioneers in the supply and servicing of filling machines. Being an active member of the Haver & Boecker Group and Feige Filling GmbH, Feigeasia has been a leading manufacturer of filling equipment & machines, known for speed, reliability and precision. Feigeasia has a range of fillers for filling liquid and pasty products in container types such as pail filling, cans, drums, conveyor systems or IBC and much more.