Lock Inspection Systems has installed four new Insight PH metal detectors at pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Sanico NV in Belgium.
According to Turnhout-based Sanico, the move has enabled the company to offer the contaminant inspection across its entire tablet range.
The four Insight PH units are in-line installations for metal contaminant inspection during compression.
As the tablets leave the press, they pass through the units in containers before moving to blister packaging.
Tablet size ranges from 3-25mm in diameter and total output is between 30,000 to 300,000 tablets per hour.
“The units operate 24 hours a day, five days a week in a controlled and monitored, clean-zone production environment to European Pharmacopeia standards – so design, efficiency and performance of the metal detector units are all key,” says James Chrismas, marketing manager at Lock Inspection Systems.
“Following a two week trial of one unit, Sanico was confident that our Insight PH units would meet its stringent manufacturing requirements,” he says.
According to Lock, the stand-alone Insight PH metal detector is designed for “increasingly demanding” pharmaceutical standards.
