Aseptic technology

Automatic powder dosing machines for pharmaceutical industry

Automatic machines that can be considered ideal to be installed in aseptic environments must generate the bare minimum quantity of foreign particles and let the laminar flow work smoothly.

Very often the constructors of aseptic equipment focus on the sterility of the environment, but not on the sterility of the powder filled into the vial.

This entails that the environment around the machines can be classified at the highest sterility level, while the powder inside the vial contains a good quantity of foreign particles such as metallic, or plastic particles that contaminate the product.

This is why Tecnotrend suggests for pharmaceutical injectable powders their vacuum/pressure system without dosing disk to minimize parts friction, even though the vacuum / pressure dosing system with rotating disk is the most common way to dose pharmaceutical powders all over the world.

To reduce parts friction, Tecno Trend has designed its own dosing group by minimizing the number of parts which compose the group itself. The fewer parts are mounted on a dosing unit, the greater the guaranteed cleanness. And this is a basic concept of sterility.

Also Tecno Trend has concentrated in designing the parts in contact with the product as well as any other part on the machine working deck without “dead legs” or critical spots where dirt can collect. And this is another way to boost machine cleanness.

Last but not least, an ideal sterile packaging machine must move the product as little as possible.
So Tecnotrend designed and patented in 1993 a particular composed planetary kinematic chain that minimizes the excessive strokes and the high accelerations transforming all the complex sequence of the dosing needles movement into a gentle continuous movement with constant speed.

Tecnotrend applied this vacuum / pressure dosing system without the disk, realizing a series of microdosing machines for injectable powders, purposely designed to work in sterile environments, called microPURAUltra-Sterile

Tecnotrend applied vacuum/pressure dosing system without the disk, realizing a series of microdosing machines for injectable powders, purposely designed to work in sterile environments.