Pharmaceutical Control Systems - aseptic primary packaging

BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Systems specializes in aseptic primary packaging equipment. From a network ofgroup companies and agents throughout the world,supported by manufacturing facilities in the USA and Europe,BOC Edwards provides and supports engineered-to-order solutions to internationally acknowledged pharmaceutical standards.

History
BOC Edwards has been supplying pharmaceutical freeze dryers for almost 50 years. Since 1986, BOC Edwards has designed and manufactured freeze dryers for pilot and industrial applications at its facility in Tonawanda, located near Niagara Falls in New York state, USA.

In 1994, the product portfolio was expanded when the BOC Group acquired Calumatic BV, a manufacturer of pharmaceutical filling systems based in Dongen in the Netherlands. This provided BOC Edwards with a European manufacturing base and access to innovative filling systems technology, which, over the next few years, was developed into a comprehensive product program. At the same time, the emerging technology of automated loading systems for freeze dryers was refined and established as a product of the Dongen site.

The two businesses have now been fully integrated, so much so that a single management team, based internationally, is responsible for defining strategy and steering the business on a day-to-day basis.

Product Program

The current product range includes: vial washing machines; sterilization/depyrogenation tunnels; rotary and in-line filling/stoppering machines operating with a range of filling principles, including positive displacement, time/pressure and net weight; fully automated loading/unloading systems for single and multiple freeze dryer installations; shelf freeze dryers with capacity from 4 to 1,000 square feet of loading area; alu-capping machines. All equipment can be provided suitable for use in an aseptic area or with isolation technology.

Facilities

As with the product range, BOC Edwards is continually upgrading its US and European facilities and investing in technology to improve operational effectiveness. The sites are linked via a computer network which facilitates integrated control of international projects. All design is performed on CAD systems and new manufacturing and financial control systems assure data security compliance to latest standards.

Both of BOC Edwards' facilities are approved to ISO 9001 Quality standards for the design, manufacture and installation of primary packaging equipment for the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical SystemsoThe facilities also operate a formal scheme of health and safety at work and are currently involved in environmental programs which resulted in ISO 14000 registration in the year 2000.

Project Management

One of the major strengths of BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Systems is project management. All operations activities within the business which are associated with a customer order are managed as discrete projects by an appointed project manager. Within this environment, departments exist to provide functional integrity and to resource the projects. The project management capability that has been developed underpins BOC Edwards' reputation for timely delivery of even the most complex projects which require substantial technological development.

Business Philosophy

BOC Edwards is positioned at the high technology end of aseptic packaging applications. Continuous product development is maintained, including an advanced program which challenges existing fundamental concepts and helps define the direction for future aseptic technologies.

The approach of those in front-line sales roles is solution-oriented; sales and applications personnel with an understanding of pharmaceutical processing will work with customers to provide integrated, validated solutions and not simply offer for sale individual pieces of equipment. This is exemplified by the fact that BOC Edwards operates laboratory facilities for supporting customers' freeze drying cycle development requirements and for performing liquid and powder filling evaluation.

Customer support is paramount and each business territory is able to support the products provided by either of the manufacturing locations. In recent years, BOC Edwards has promoted preferred supplier agreements and now operates such philosophies with key customers around the world.

The mission of BOC Edwards Pharmaceutical Systems is to be the world's leading supplier of primary packaging equipment by providing advanced technology products and services of the highest quality to ensure long-term customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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