“Hosokawa Micron continues to offer fresh innovations in design that push the boundaries in contamination control and which provide fully configurable options to meet specific customer requirements,” said Carl Emsley, sales manager, Pharma and High Containment.
The Runcorn, Cheshire, UK-based company’s flexible or rigid transparent containment screens create a physical barrier between the operator and the source of dust particles enabling containment levels of <5µg/m3 to be achieved in the downflow booth.
Screens options allowing varying dimensional adjustment, 2D, 3D and 4D, determine the level of protection and the range of operator movement.
The downflow booths also offer triple stage safe change filtration (pre filter, fine duct, HEPA) that enables maintenance personnel to remove contaminated particulate filters without coming into direct contact with the contaminants or internal booth surfaces.
Airlocks provide a pressurised bridge between a controlled air environment to an unregulated area, preventing entry or exit of potentially harmful or unwanted contaminants. By providing safety alarm, access control and decontamination options within such air locks the company says it can ensure that operator safety and product integrity standards are not compromised.
Fully integrated cooling and heating packages offer operators the most comfortable working environment appropriate to their operating procedures.
A control option is designed to reduce energy costs and wastage. It includes automated control of lighting, temperature and start up procedures, as well as air flow control that maintains operator exposure levels depending on the activities undertaken. Continuous testing of the working zone environment allows increased or decreased air changes to be made to meet set OELs.
Emsley added: “Our new downflow booth developments are designed to exceed market expectations for both operator safety and product integrity. Working closely with customers Hosokawa Micron engineers are able to help determine the exact downflow booth specifications required to meet customer requirements.”
