Bürkert and BBS-Systems provide one-stop shop for hygienic processing systems

Published: 6-Aug-2009

UK-based Bürkert and BBS-Systems of Switzerland are to combine their expertise by becoming a single source for specific process systems in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. The alliance brings together Bürkert’s valve, sensor, process control, hazardous area and specialist products with BBS’s sterile ancillary piping, flanges, connectors, indicators, sampling systems and vessel equipment.

Paul Trevitt, general manager of Bürkert UK said the move is a vertical integration of its products and systems knowledge with those of BBS, enabling the company to provide customised hygienic processing systems to the hi-tech pharma and biotechnology sectors.

‘BBS-Systems has special knowledge, versatility, flexibility and outstanding know-how in the sphere of hygienic processing,’ he added. ‘It was a natural step, therefore, to join with Bürkert in a unique partnership which provides mechanical and instrumentation systems and products that were previously unattainable from a single source.’

BBS-Systems has more than 20 years’ hygienic processing experience. The company’s products comply with all relevant FDA, BPE and BGA standards. It manufactures crevice and bacteria trap-free sterile components that ensure consistent and controlled flow to maximise product quality at its facility at Wil, Switzerland. The key segments targeted with this modular systems approach are water treatment, steam and heat transfer, cleaning-in-place, fermentation, downstream processing, batching and mixing, filling, steam production, bulk chemical delivery and waste neutralisation.

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