Making cough syrup with Magnetic Coupled Mixers

The highest percentage of the Sterimixer installed base is in the biopharma industry but, biopharma is just a segment of the global pharmaceutical industry. There are numerous applications in traditional pharmaceutical processes that can benefit from the advantages that magnetic coupled mixers offer.

REQUIREMENT

A contract manufacturer had been making a wide variety of cough syrups using top entry mixers. Business was steadily increasing and four new tanks were being added to address the required capacity increase. This customer was also looking for a way to make their process more hygienic.

One of the steps that were identified as a candidate for upgrading was the mixing process because their open tanks presented an unacceptable contamination risk.

Lastly, the customer needed the flexibility to make a wide range of products in various size batches.

They may be making a 200 cps cough syrup today and they may get a contract for a 500 cps cough syrup tomorrow. They might be making a full tank of a given product but, they also needed the flexibility to make just a small amount of a special recipe.

How that led to a bottom-mounted Magnetic Mixer

The primary benefit of the Sterimixer is containment and isolation – everything inside stays in and everything outside stays out. Another important benefit is the ability to do mixing to the last drop – mix small batches or premixes in large tanks. Sterimixers have traditionally been associated with water like mixing applications but, cough syrups are clearly not waterlike. Depending on the recipe, they may be several hundred centipoises before adding in an appropriate safety factor. How much of a safety factor is appropriate?

Traditional pharmaceutical customers have some of the same concerns about product integrity that biopharma customers have. Steridose has the products to address these concerns during the mixing steps.

Finding the right mixer

Traditional pharmaceutical customers have some of the same concerns about product integrity that biopharma customers have. Steridose helped this customer to address their required capacity increase, make their process more hygienic and, give them the flexibility they needed. Steridose has the right products and the right expertise…”providing the perfect mix”.

Steridose’s engineers used the data provided by the customer to arrive at a mixer selection that provides the customer with a reasonable amount of mixing in reserve, should they ever need it. The Steridose Selection Tool & Information Resource (STIR) sizing program is available here for everyone to use.

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