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AST Fill-Finish Processing Isolator

AST Fill-Finish Processing Isolator

Client:
AST

Completion:
April 2024

Location:
Tacoma, WA

Application:
Sterile Fill Finish

Custom Fill-Finish Processing Isolator built in collaboration with AST

In April 2024, Germfree and AST unveiled a groundbreaking sterile fill-finish solution in Tacoma, WA, that redefines industry standards.

Project features

Equipment: Sterile-Fill Finish Processing Isolator.

Layout configurations: 3 chambers. Interlocking doors, onboard CURIS 7000ei system, onboard unified HMI user interface.

The challenge

Germfree was awarded the opportunity to collaborate with AST in designing this ground-breaking new isolator and oRABS system. Finding a robust fill-finish solution in the United States has proven to be a challenge with extremely long lead times. In addition to long lead times, ensuring thorough inspection of these isolators has proven difficult.

The answer

Germfree’s collaboration with AST has been crucial in addressing these challenges effectively. By pooling Germfree’s expertise in isolator technology with AST’s advanced Aseptic Fill-Finish Processing knowledge, the team has successfully designed a versatile series of isolators in various sizes and throughputs. This collaboration has enabled the creation and delivery of high-quality isolators.

This project ensures that the isolators are designed and manufactured in accordance with the highest industry standards. The result is an innovative design that has garnered notable recognition, winning Best in Show at the Interphex 2024 tradeshow and serving as a benchmark for future isolator designs currently in development.

These systems were designed and built using Germfree’s proven High Containment manufacturing, click here to learn more about our equipment.

Read about the unique process we used to deliver this project and how we can deliver yours.

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