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Processing And Handling Equipment

Equipment

Processing and Handling Equipment

For the manufacture of pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic and chemical products.

Processing and handling products

Equipment

Powder handling, blending and granulation

Solid Dosage Process Expertise

Comparison of Granulation Methods
Making tablets from potent APIs
Containment in OSD Production
New trends in solid dosage forms production
Specialist applications

Continuous Processing

ConsiGma™ Tableting Lines
Continuous Processing Expertise
Continuous Processing test centre

Contained Materials Handling

IBC systems for materials handling
Process features & expertise
Buck® Containment valves
Disposable Containing System
Containment Expertise

Blending & Mixing

IBC blenders
IBC container blending expertise
Post hoist blenders
High shear mixers and blenders
Multi-functional PharmaConnect® blender

Small Scale R & D Equipment

Totally contained Granulation line for research
PharmaConnect™ designed for research
MP-MICRO™ fluid bed processor
Strea-1™ Classic fluid bed processor
STREA-1™ Pro-Fluid bed processor

Facility Planning

Most of CSV’s projects start with a strategic activity carried out with the Steering  Committee of our clients. The approach on a strategic design is based on data analysis, capacity definition and layout definition as preliminary steps in the process of developing a project.

The decision support system can be applied to new plants as well as revamping of pharmaceutical plants.

Engineering

CSV Life Science offers conceptual engineering, basic and detail engineering services. At the same time our validation background enables our team to support every project phase taking cGMP problems into account.

Construction

CSV Life Science supports our customers in the construction phase, supplying plants with a Lump Sum Turn Key (LSTK) basis, and/or providing on site project management and construction supervision services.

During the construction phase, a construction manager would be present on site for the entire period of construction and is responsible for coordination of all field activities.

Validation

CSV’s validation background enables them to support every project phase taking cGMP issues into account. This capability is not only applied in design phases but also during construction and commissioning.

Biscuit line automation

Handling

Handling of biscuits, base cakes or crackers often starts with an organised pattern coming from the oven/cooling conveyor. Houdijk engineers produce handling solutions to connect the oven with many different applications, including:

– Product pattern presentation to depositing/capping systems
– Stacked arrival and feeding into stencil creamer sandwiching machines
– Stacked arrival and feeding into volumetric slug length measuring loaders
– Stacked arrival and feeding into (flow) wrappers featuring pile/stack feeders

Capping And Depositing

In the HOUDIJK CAPPER™ two technologies meet: base cake handling & cream preparation and depositing. Houdijk offers a turnkey solution with market leading technologies. The HOUDIJK CAPPER™ is a state of the art system, in which the design is focused to maximize:

– Overall performance of efficiency
– Repeatability of all settings for product changeovers
– Operator friendliness
– Overall system safety
– High hygienic and sanitation standards
– Uncompromising food safety production standards

Count Feeding With Blending

The GRADOMATIC™ is a versatile Houdijk product row forming system for round regular shaped products. The GRADOMATIC™ is able to handle a random supply of product, blending the production as well as enabling count feeding. It handles large quantities of product per unit, while still handling the individual product extremely gently. The design is open and is easily accessible for operation, maintenance and clearing.

Count Feeding

The PICK & PLACE UNIT is a servo driven unit, picking up complete product row(s) and placing them in the destined location. Products are gently picked up by means of vacuum and placed in a tray.

Pick & Place Loading
Slug in Wrapper
Slug in tray
Dual lane slug in wrapper
Dual mode slug tray/wrapper
Piles/Stacks in tray
Piles/Stacks in wrapper
On edge product in cavity tray
Portion/Vending pile pack

Pile/Stack Feeding

The high speed SKIPPER™ unit is an unique and innovative Houdijk pile/stack loading system for plain products. The SKIPPER™ accepts without lane reduction/expansion the given number of product lanes coming from the oven. It separates extremely gently individual products from the vertical magazine by means of a servo driven horizontal indexing disc. The individual products are transferred in the destined pitches of the infeed chain of any make flow wrapping machine. Thus it composes the product pile/stack with set count.

Volumetric Loading

The CLIPPER™ volumetric slug loader (“length measuring feeder”) is a modern design solution for loading slugs of biscuits standing on edge. The CLIPPER™ is suitable for loading biscuits and crackers, with round, oval, square and rectangular shapes. In combination with the Houdijk handling system, it is a versatile solution for feeding products into the running flightbar infeed of any make X-fold- or flow wrapping machine.

CLIPPER™ Slug Loader
CLIPPER™ Dual Lane

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