Life Sciences
Process solutions for sensitive bulk solids handling
Safe process solutions for sensitive powders, regulated production environments and high requirements for product and personal protection, cleanability and validation.
HECHT Life Sciences Applications
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical applications involve APIs (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients), excipients, granules and premixes for quality-critical manufacturing processes of solid medicines. Key factors include reproducible dosing, safe material handling, low dust emission and a design that supports product protection and manageable cleaning.
Biotechnology
Biotechnological applications work with sensitive, high-quality or functional powders and ingredients. Controlled raw material handling, gentle conveying and process control that reduces fluctuations and supports stable results are essential here.
Food supplements
Nutraceuticals are often characterised by a wide variety of formulations, functional ingredients, proteins, vitamins or mineral blends. There is a need for flexible plant designs to accommodate changing products, precise dosing and reliable mixing processes.
Cosmeceuticals
Cosmeceuticals combine high quality standards with functional active ingredients and delicate ingredients. It is important to have clean raw material processes, safe product changeovers and a design that supports consistent quality and reproducible processing.
Diagnostics
In diagnostic applications, the focus is on precise material handling, small or delicate powder flows and a high degree of reproducibility. The challenge lies in ensuring stable and traceable processes, even when working with demanding raw materials.
Medical Devices
In powder and raw material processes related to medical devices, controlled material feed, consistent dosing and reliable processing are essential. A clean and technically robust design is crucial, particularly for specialised applications.
Animal Health
Animal Health combines requirements from human medicine and nutraceuticals. Typical applications include functional powders, supplement ingredients and pharmaceutical-grade mixing processes. Robust, quality-assured solutions are required to ensure safe material handling and reproducible results.
HECHT Systems and plant designs for demanding life science applications
Pharmaceutical APIs or finished medicinal products, excipients and granules, biotechnology involving sensitive and high-value ingredients, food supplements with a wide variety of formulations, dermocosmetic products with functional active ingredients, or diagnostics and medical devices requiring precise powder and raw material processing: Each application places its own demands on process control, validated cleaning and process stability. In the field of animal health, too, robust, quality-assured solutions are required to reliably support pharmaceutical and supplement-related applications.
Process steps in the life science sector
Filling
Filling heads and big bag and small container filling stations.
Emptying
Emptying stations for big bags, drums and sacks.
Dosing
Precise dosing and weighing components: Dosing sluices, dosing screw and more.
Disposable technology
Disposable insulators for simple quality assurance: EWI and EPS insulators.
Convey
For conveying powders and granulates: Pneumatic vacuum conveyors and suction shoes.
Sampling
Samplers for every requirement: screw, slide, vacuum samplers and more.
Safe process solutions for sensitive powders and regulated production environments
In life sciences applications, plant design is crucial not only for efficiency, but also for product protection, process safety and batch quality. We develop bespoke solutions for bulk material handling, in-plant raw material supply and mechanical process engineering, designed for sensitive raw materials, controlled material flow, and validated and reproducible process stability. This results in plant concepts that combine technical performance with GMP-compliant engineering.
Your advantages at a glance
- Maximum process reliability for sensitive life science applications
- Consistent batch quality through validatable process control
- Shorter changeover times thanks to cleaning-optimised designs
- System safety for operators, products and processes
- Robust GMP solutions with clear documentation
- Engineering from pilot-scale testing through design to the production plant
Your requirement - Our expertise
Containment
Find out everything there is to know about containment.
Cleaning
Validatable cleaning and product safety for the pharmaceutical industry
Automation
Automation solutions for the most demanding requirements in the pharmaceutical industry
Engineering
Find out more about our engineering services here
From modular solutions right through to turnkey solutions, we are your reliable partner.
Case studies from the life sciences sector
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HECHT - Pfizer - High-containment production facility - in co-operation with HECHT Technologie
Pfizer is expanding its production to a resource-efficient and sustainable solution with the new HighCon system. HECHT Technologie supplied the complete feeding station with big bag, sack and drum emptying devices for highly reliable powder handling. Another example of HECHT's expertise in pharmaceutical powder technology.
Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbHPfizer is expanding its production to a resource-efficient and sustainable solution with the new HighCon system. HECHT Technologie supplied the complete feeding station with big bag, sack and drum emptying devices for highly reliable powder handling. Another example of HECHT's expertise in pharmaceutical powder technology.
Moving away from rigid processes: raw material feeding in continuous pharmaceutical manufacturingPfizer is expanding its production to a resource-efficient and sustainable solution with the new HighCon system. HECHT Technologie supplied the complete feeding station with big bag, sack and drum emptying devices for highly reliable powder handling. Another example of HECHT's expertise in pharmaceutical powder technology.
Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbHThe manufacture of bone cement for orthopaedic surgery requires the highest standards of purity, safety and process control – HECHT Technologie provides the right solutions for this.
Large-scale plant for the manufacture of surgical and orthopaedic fillers
