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Vacuum Conveying:
The Principle

Examples of Conveyed
Materials

Vacuum Conveying:
Cost Example

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VR - Vacuum Conveyors
PPC - Vacuum Conveyors
Tablet-Conveyors
Vacuum Conveyors
with Inerting Option

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Vacuum Conveyors

Vacuum Conveying
inside Explosion-Zones

Vacuum Conveyors
with Weighing and
Measuring Function

Loading and Unloading
Stations for Vacuum
Conveyors

Suction of Liquids

Applications:
Chemicals
Dye-Powder and Pigments
Pharmaceuticals
Tablets, Capsules and
Dragees

Food

Complete Solutions for the
Handling and Processing
of Powders

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Vacuum Conveyors

Vacuum-Conveyors in Pharma- / GMP- Applications

Advantages

  • gap-free and all-accessable design of the conveyor
  • smooth surfaces, electro-polished or mirror polished
  • dust-free and gentle material handling
  • high-standard filters for pharma applications
  • HEPA filters available
  • small sizes
  • safe for operation with ignitable materials and for the use inside explosion zones (e.g. to load reactors with alcohol atmospheres inside)
  • minimum of residual material inside the conveyor
  • easy disassembling and cleaning of the conveyors
  • WIP- / CIP-conveyors upon request
  • optional Inerting function
  • Powder locks to load materials into reactors under a different pressure level
  • manual or automatic suction processes
  • lightweight and mobile systems available
  • Chemically high resitant materials (316L, 316Ti, 1.4404, 1.4435, 1.4571, Glass, Hastelloy, ETFE-coatings with FDA etc.)
  • FDA-approved materials, optional with all necessary 3.1B material certificates
  • Containment Systems available

Typical Applications

  • Material discharging out of loading funnels, Big-Bags, IBCs, Silos, drums, bags, driers, granulators, Tablet presses, Coaters etc.
  • Feeding of materials into reactors, mixers, mills, filling and packaging machines, blenders/sieves, Big-Bags, weighing hoppers, dosing stations, IBCs ...
  • suction directly through in-line mills
  • dustfree conveying and feeding of all different powders, pellets, prills, flakes etc.
  • Safe handling of toxic and hazardous materials
  • Safe transportation of active ingredients
  • Safe material transport and transfer inside explosion zones

Qualification documents (IQ / OQ) and further assistance for other qualification processes and cleaning validation upon request.

Unloading of pharma powders from a fluidized bed drier

manual or automatic suction of pharma materials and loading of a container IBC

loading of powders into a stirring vessel / reactor loading with a vacuum conveyor

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