Pharma & Healthcare

Remote Trials and Demonstration Capabilities

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:31:36 GMT

Another important element in the sales phase is product testing. To the need to travel, we have equipped our test centers with video cameras and conferencing facilities to let customers participate in live product testing without being present. While being operated by GEA staff, we can share the process data, live pictures and the SCADA screens from the plant being tested in real-time without the customer or their team being present.

Welcome to the GEA Pharma Solids Center

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:11:07 GMT

Our test facilities offer a full range of both batch and continuous manufacturing technologies to produce pharmaceutical solid dosage forms and represent our continued commitment to and ongoing support for the current and future pharmaceutical industry.

The test centers offer a wealth of opportunity for our clients, including customer demonstrations and trials on our state-of-the-art batch and continuous equipment, training sessions and hands-on lab experience, product development assistance, CQA evaluation support and updates on what can be achieved with GEA equipment. Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be tested in a GMP-like environment, based on a safety and OEL risk assessment.

Stable operations with GEA VARIVENT® valves

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 08:27:08 GMT

GEA VARIVENT® valve units maintain the stability and versatility of your plant operation

Over a million variants with VARIVENT®

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:35:03 GMT

Animation of variability and modularity of VARIVENT® valves

Premium quality with every part

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:34:15 GMT

Animation of quality of each part of VARIVENT® valves

Adding sustainability to liquid processes

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:10:16 GMT

Animation of GEA VARIVENT® adding sustainability to liquid processes

Immerse Yourself in the Real and Virtual Worlds of Continuous Manufacturing

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:54:38 GMT

Journey into the 3D world of virtual reality and take a closer look at the ConsiGma® CDC 50 Continuous Direct Compression system, which recently produced more than 15 million tablets during a 120-h trial run, and the ConsiGma® Coater, our high-performance tablet coating technology that accurately deposits controlled amounts of coating materials on tablets — even if they are hygroscopic or friable.

GEA VARIVENT® The Benchmark

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 12:04:40 GMT

GEA VARIVENT® valve unit - our experience - perfection - inspiration - assurance - your future

Digital strength for your progress

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:55:36 GMT

Animation of digital strength of GEA VARIVENT® valve unit

Perfection in every product

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:55:28 GMT

Animation of range of GEA VARIVENT® valves for near-limitless
customization

Safety in every process step

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:55:15 GMT

Animation of safe function and absolute reliability of GEA VARIVENT®
valve unit

Blood-derived Antibodies and their role in COVID-19

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:46:44 GMT

Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 are produced naturally by the immune system during the course of COVID-19 infection. Antibody-containing blood plasma that has been donated by people who have previously recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection is now being tested worldwide as a potential treatment for individuals who are seriously ill with COVID-19.

Important Project Milestones with Remote Solutions

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 11:32:26 GMT

Even during unprecedented times, such as the COVID-19 lockdown, important project milestones such as factory acceptance tests (FATs) still need to be completed.
Without being able to travel, it has been necessary to devise a procedure whereby clients and customers still have access to their equipment and units. A solution that GEA has adopted is the use of live digital camera feeds from the production environment.

ConsiGma 4.0 Virtual Reality Experience

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 14:28:16 GMT

GEA offers a comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art digital tools, including Augmented and Virtual Reality remote support tools assistance for planning, testing, installation and service, as well as training, modeling platforms, demonstrations and digital twins to improve the customer experience.

Real-Time Residual Moisture Determinationin in Freeze Drying Process with...

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 09:19:40 GMT

LYOSENSE® from GEA, based on multipoint NIR measurements, provides the comprehensive and non-destructive evaluation of freeze-dried product cakes in real-time. To ensure the quality and stability of lyophilized pharmaceutical products, the residual water content must remain within a defined range. This easy-to-install and use online measuring device is a fast (5 ms), accurate and non-invasive solution to moisture determination, enabling the effortless detection of residual moisture from 0.2–5.0% in every vial.

GEA Dealing with the Challenges of Harvesting High-density Cell Cultures

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 05:42:53 GMT

Aseptomag® Magnetic Separator portfolio

Fri, 29 May 2020 07:42:06 GMT

Magnetic Separators serve as protection for process equipment and at the same time increase food quality. The Aseptomag® Portfolio includes three different models to ideally match customer expectations. Aseptomag® Magnetic Separators - taste the difference

Modular Orbital Cleaner OC200

Thu, 28 May 2020 10:41:01 GMT

The Orbital Cleaner OC200 is the most powerful and first modular cleaner of the range. This cleaner is designed for most efficient cleaning of large vessels and demanding cleaning tasks in various applications.

High Performance Tablet Coating Technology

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:57:14 GMT

ConsiGma® coater is a high performance tablet coating technology that accurately deposits controlled amounts of coating materials on tablets, speeding up production and ensuring a high-quality end product. The Coater can be an integral part of a batch or continuous line.

MOBILE MINOR™ spray dryer with highly efficient powder separation

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:30:46 GMT

At CPhI, we met with Søren Terp Madsen and talked about the MOBILE MINOR™ spray dryer. Offering an improved design but maintaining the same compact footprint, the MM-100 spray dryer from GEA, equipped with the new and highly efficient cyclone CEE (Cyclone Extra Efficiency), and is the newest addition to the MOBILE MINOR™ range. In the MOBILE MINOR™, solutions, suspensions or emulsions can be dried into representative powder samples, facilitating the retrieval of the process data required for scaling-up to industrial production. It is a flexible and easy-to-handle spray dryer which has become standard equipment in the R&D departments of many leading manufacturers, independent research institutes and universities worldwide. By nature, spray drying is a continuous process and is designed to offer both high productivity and uniform product quality during sustained periods.

Integrated Pelletization System

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:53:59 GMT

Sean Gray, Sales Manager - Batch Granulation, explains the NICA™ Pelletizing System. The NICA™ is a turnkey pellet production plant that combines a mixer/granulator, extruder and spheronizer in a single, integrated process. Wet powders continuously pass through a low-shear radial extruder; the extrusions are fragmented and formed into pellets in the spheronizer.

Fast track R&D Tablet Compression

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:41:21 GMT

Always looking to improve the research, development and scale-up process for oral solid dosage forms, we’re currently working on a compaction data acquisition and analysis system (CDAAS). Comprising mechanical components (feeders, hoppers and tooling), electrical elements and a software package, the CDAAS makes it possible to do formulation development work on a production-scale tablet press using minute amounts of product.

GEA discusses the challenges of DPI Blending

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:44:47 GMT

At CPhI Madrid 2018, Mark Rowland discusses the process of DPI (Dry Powder Inhalable) production and the key attributes necessary for the process. Utilizing GEA’s High Speed TRV™ Blending system, API and Lactose are mixed to form a product with the key attributes of a high level of homogeneity and formulation stability. TRV™ is available as standalone equipment of as part of the innovative PharmaConnect system with a batch capacity range from 200g to over 50kg.

Containment in the Pharma industry

Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:59:09 GMT

David Johnson, GEA’s Sales
Director for Materials Handling and Containment, explains the inner workings of
the BUCK® valve and how the docking system comprises two half valves that are
able to independently seal two different containers. It ensures the protection
of both people and products when charging and discharging highly potent APIs.

New-generation GEA pharmaceutical separators with the innovative GEA...

Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:53:51 GMT

Meet Andreas Biewald and learn how new GEA flexChange concept provides a revised generation of separators for pharmaceutical applications. The flexChange concept allows for simple and quick interchanges of the separator´s bowls to ease the adaption to the customer needs, making costly alterations unnecesary.

Why Collaborating in Continues Manufacturing Makes a Difference for GEA

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:15:03 GMT

At ACHEMA 2018, GEA hosted
a joint press conference with other key suppliers to highlight a number of
industry collaborations helping to facilitate the uptake of continuous
manufacturing (CM) technology in the drug production sector. Phil Gabb, Senior
Sales Director of Pharma Solid explained that the collaboration allowed
delivering the services and infrastructure needed by customers to successfully
implement continuous manufacturing.

World premiere at ACHEMA: The GEA NiSoX-Valve homogenizes nanoemulsions...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:42:34 GMT

Join us for a meeting with Alfredo Ricci, Specialist
Process Technology, introducing the revolutionary GEA NiSoX-Valve™️, at ACHEMA
2018. The new valve is a stunning improvement for the homogenization process.
It helps to decrease energy consumption, reducing particle size distribution.
This especially benefits customers from the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and
chemical industries who rely on the finest nanoemulsions and microemulsions for
their products. Furthermore, the reduction of active wearable components
supports decreasing maintenance costs.

GEA Turns Pfizer Plant into Smart Factory

Wed, 30 May 2018 09:37:49 GMT

With the recent inclusion of a suite of fully automated, highly efficient production equipment to manufacture tablets and capsules, Pfizer’s plant in Freiburg, Germany, has been transformed into what the company calls a “Smart Factory.”
At the very heart of the new plant and ensuring the cost-effective production of top quality oral solid dosage forms is GEA’s continuous blending technology.

PERFORMA™ P Tablet Press

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 08:53:20 GMT

Specifically for the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries and features the exclusive Exchangeable Die Disc technology. The EDD enables even faster and easier format change-over than a conventional exchangeable turret while requiring a far smaller investment.

Hicoflex

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:13:52 GMT

We work together with customers from the beginning to ensure, that they succeed.

With the Hicoflex® system, GEA ensures fully contained powder transfer during the charging and discharging of hazardous material. The Hicoflex® is attached to both a disposable containment bag, for material transport, and to a disposable containment adaptor that fits onto the inlet or outlet chute to allow product transfer.

HICOFLEX® DISPOSABLE CONTAINMENT SOLUTIONS

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:13:34 GMT

The Hicoflex® disposable containment system has been designed to provide a high containment docking solution between the product handling bag and the process. The system is simple, effective and provides a safe working environment for a minimal investment. Flexible and transparent disposable bags provide a number of benefits compared with solid containers for handling small quantities of material in a production or R&D facility.

Hicoflex® Hicobox

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:30:27 GMT

The Hicobox unit has been designed for applications in which the process environment operates at a lower working pressure than the surrounding area. In such situations, without a Hicobox in place, the flexible bags can collapse as a result of the negative differential pressure. This, in turn, prevents material (tablets) from flowing into the Hicoflex® Bag. The Hicobox completely encapsulates the Hicoflex® Adapter, Hicoflex® Bag and the Hicoflex® Pneumatic Opening Tool and is put under the same pressure as the process area. This eliminates the pressure differential and guarantees material flow.

GEA Grasso M Screw Compressor Unit for Industrial Refrigeration

Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:21:25 GMT

The single-stage screw compressor units of the GEA Grasso M Series are the #1 choice in the small to medium industrial cooling capacity range across many applications. Thanks to its advanced engineering design GEA Grasso M helps to reduce the life cycle costs of the refrigeration plant. Learn more about the advantages of this compressor unit.

GEA PerformancePlus

Mon, 24 Oct 2016 07:51:42 GMT

With GEA PerformancePlus GEA is offering its customers service level options that extend way beyond routine preventive maintenance and complement customer Industry 4.0 strategic efforts.

By combining modern condition monitoring technologies with its industry expertise, GEA provides its customers monitoring services, comprehensive analysis reports and reliable optimization recommendations. In turn, GEA customers receive valuable information to make business decisions easier and addressing challenges they face to achieve their specific performance-related goals. GEA PerformancePlus creates transparency about the current health status of the equipment, increases its availability, ensures optimum productivity, brings efficiency optimization potential to light and enables a sustainable equipment utilization. GEA PerformancePlus enables a speedy evaluation of the opportunities and risks of changing production requirements, orders can be assessed and economically scheduled in turn leading to higher productivity for GEA customers.

GEA PerformancePlus will initially be available for GEA separators; on the mid-term it will be extended to other GEA product groups.

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage - Batch Processing

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:27:02 GMT

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage - Batch Processing

Fri, 25 Sep 2015 11:26:16 GMT

GEA Pharma - Function of BUCK High Containnment Valve

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:07:23 GMT

Readily available from GEA - a leader in containment technology and docking interfaces. BUCK® valves offer a modular, off-the-shelf solution for your powder handling needs. The first commercially available split butterfly valve, the Buck® valve’s unique design facilitates fast product changeovers and the contained charging/discharging of potent actives from one vessel to another.

GEA Pharma - Liquid Dosage - Vial Traceability

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:39:17 GMT

Glass vials, laser coding
traceability solution; SCHOTT, HEUFT and GEA have pooled their resources to
help the pharmaceutical industry implement the EU counterfeiting directive,
prevent drug counterfeiting and protect the trademark rights of patent holders
and, ultimately, patients.

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – Producing MUPS Tablets

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:35:27 GMT

MUPS
Tableting Solution - To increase process yield and guarantee tablet quality, an
innovative new MUPS (Multiple Unit Pellet System) production method — a
continuous dosing, blending and compression system — has been developed that
eliminates these production inefficiencies and product quality risks.

GEA Pharma - Containment - the heart of Solid Dosage Production

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:21:58 GMT

GEA can assist and advise you to determine what level of containment is required where and when, optimizing the manufacturing process and making it efficient, safe and cost-effective. We provide tailor-made containment for the pharmaceutical industry — for now and for the future.

GEA Pharma - Medical Packaging

Mon, 07 Sep 2015 10:24:01 GMT

GEA Pharma - Personal Care – Innovative Single Pass Production

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:58:40 GMT

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – Tablet Inspection

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:55:06 GMT

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – Containment Technology

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:53:21 GMT

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – MODUL Q, Innovative Tablet Compression

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:43:28 GMT

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – Single Pot Processing

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 08:34:37 GMT

The GEA single pot (or one pot) technology offers a choice of mixing, granulating and drying options that are integrated into a single processing vessel.

GEA Pharma - Solid Dosage – Process Analytical Technologies

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:34:27 GMT

GEA has created a compact and cleanable in-process optical probe for use in powder processing equipment.

GEA Pharma - Homogenizers Plug & Play Pharma Skid

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 09:21:17 GMT

GEA Pharma - High Shear Batch Mixer Animation 2015

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:49:36 GMT

GEA Pharma - ConsiGma™ coater animation

Tue, 12 May 2015 12:08:11 GMT

Animation explaining the working principle of the ConsiGma™ coater

GEA Pharma - ConsiGma™-DC for direct compression

Tue, 12 May 2015 12:06:18 GMT

Animation explaining the working principles of ConsiGma™-DC

GEA Pharma - Lighthouse Probe™ animation

Tue, 12 May 2015 12:04:56 GMT

animation about the working princple of the new design Lighthouse Probe™

GEA Pharma - From Powder to Tablet: Continuous Processing with ConsiGma™

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 08:34:54 GMT

ConsiGma™ is a range of plug flow tableting equipment that allows pharmaceutical companies to continuously process and manufacture oral solid dosage forms — from powder to tablet. Offering significant reductions in development time and raw material (API) use, process and energy costs can be considerably decreased using this plug-and-play technology while maintaining quality and increasing manufacturing efficiency.