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Pharmaceutical manufacturing: handling and packaging equipment
News Release from: Mettler Toledo | Subject: High-precision weighing system
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 September 2006
Terminal provides correct weighing
results
Developed to provide correct weighing results and reliable operation in wet, corrosive, dust-laden and hygienic weighing environments, a terminal and sensors provide IP69K-rated protection.
Mettler Toledo Industrial Division, the Leicester, UK-based weighing equipment specialists, have provided the split-second, high-precision weighing capability that lies at the very heart of a US$5 million order for glovebox isolators recently secured by world containment specialists Howorth Pharma, of Bolton, UK The contract for a total of 29 glovebox isolators was awarded to Howorth Pharma after the company successfully demonstrated that it could provide unique retrofit containment solutions to a number of complex existing pharmaceutical machines, in an environment where wet granulation, tray drying, fluid bed drying, milling, capsule coating, tablet pressing and coating take place
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Howorth Pharma's client name and plant location remain confidential.
* Highest levels of accuracy and hygiene - a Mettler Toledo customer for almost 20 years, in developing their containment technologies, Howorth Pharma required a weighing solution that would not only provide the very highest levels of precision, accuracy and hygiene, but would also operate reliability in a negative pressure atmosphere with considerable air movement, and withstand spray-down cleaning to IP66.
* Modulo precision solution - embracing six Mettler Toledo Modulo Automated Precision Weighing Sensors, linked to one of the company's Zone 2/Zone 22 compliant, tough but highly sensitive and clearly readable IND690 terminals, the solution provided by Mettler Toledo offers split-second precision weighing in the milligram range in the harshest of industrial environments.
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About the Modulo automated precision weighing sensor - s world market leaders in innovative weighing technology for industrial and laboratory applications, Mettler Toledo is constantly working on solutions that make production processes more effective, faster and safer.
A typical example of this approach to excellence is the company's Modulo family of sensors.
Bringing the capability of precision weighing in the milligram range (down to four decimal places) in the most demanding of industrial environments, Modulo IP67- rated sensors are compact, self-calibrating and always able to deliver reliable, exact results - particularly essential wherever chemical, pharmaceutical, valuable and safety-relevant substances are dosed.
About the IND690 terminal - developed specifically to provide correct weighing results and reliable operation in wet, corrosive, dust-laden and hygienic checkweighing and dispensing / formula weighing environments, the IND690 terminal provides IP69K-rated protection, 'Big Weight' display, easy integration into the majority of applications and a range of software for the highest performance capabilities.
Supplied as standard with a RS232 data interface for printer connection, up to eight more interfaces can be added for greater flexibility and modularity.
A ProfibusDP-690 card enables the IND690 to be operated as a slave in Profibus-DP. Request a free brochure from Mettler Toledo ...
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