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Graver Technologies offers numerous technologies to address various processing needs for the pharmaceutical industry, ranging from the use of adsorbents to remove organic or inorganic contaminants in the production of high quality intermediates and final products, the use of cross flow membranes to remove suspended cells and solids for feed stock solutions in cell harvesting, and the use of liquid filters for cost effective prefiltration and filtration of process grade water.

Ecosorb multi-functional purification media is used for processing high quality intermediates and final products where the removal of contaminants and undesirable by-products is essential to improving to improving yields in production of high quality compounds. Ecosorb products are particularly well suited for removing undesirable reaction contaminants, color bodies, precious metal catalysts, fermentation products and for purifying prior to crystallization to increase yields. Ecosorb products can be operated in deep beds or precoat filters to provide cost effective solutions for a wide range of purification challenges.

Scepter inorganic tubular micro and ultrafiltration membranes are ideal for front-end concentration and clarification of fermentation broths, and protein separations, prior to further separation and purification process steps. The 316L stainless steel and all welded module construction is chemically compatible and very robust. The larger diameter membrane tubes can concentrate to very high solids with high viscosities without damage to the membrane. This translates to higher product yields and less processing time. Heavily fouled membranes can be aggressively CIP’d at high pH and temperature for rapid batch turn-around and 100% recovery of original water permeability.

Filtration Engineering brand PulseJet systems are self cleaning and allow continuous use of pneumatic conveyance systems increasing productivity. And the pleated filter cartridges are much more efficient and effective than standard bag housings, so more product is recovered from the conveyed stream, and less product is pulled into the vacuum pump or expelled by the blower system. Filtration Engineering brand Mist Eliminators are the most efficient means of controlling expensive pump oil by collecting it and returning it back to the pump and also to act as a pump silencer.

Consler brand engineered filters are custom designed to work in the high pressure environments often found in pharmaceutical processing.

Powerguard filter products provide reliable purification and clarification in prefiltration and final filtration applications of biologicals, serums, nutraceuticals, vaccines, solvents and USP water. Using a variety of media types with a complete range of ratings, critical contamination problems are controlled to give high yields and idealized process economics.

IX Services offers the only 316-L stainless steel, portable exchange vessel designed for today’s service deionization marketplace. The vessel contains high-capacity mixed bed ion exchange resin and the entire vessel is exchanged, at appropriate intervals, to maintain water quality and insure consistent production.

Powdex and Ecodex product families may be used for processing pharmaceutical intermediates. The very fine particle sizes also enable fast kinetics and efficient separation of critical components, while maintaining good hydraulic performance.