Pharmaceutical & Biotech

Material certificates for wetted parts, compliance statements for the gasket compound, surface finish records, pressure test records and drawings that match your P&ID. List exactly what your IQ and OQ protocols call for. Anything added after fabrication means rework or records rebuilt from memory, and auditors can tell the difference.

Surface by surface, not as one requirement for the whole unit. Product contact plates may need a polished and passivated finish, while the utility side rarely does, and polishing it only adds cost. Quote your finish standard and roughness requirement for each side, and state whether passivation records are part of the package.

It can, with the right compound and a cycle the gaskets were selected for. SIP pushes elastomers to the top of their temperature range and every heat-up and cool-down ages them a little more. Give us the SIP temperature, hold time and how often it runs, so gasket life can be estimated and replacement planned into maintenence.

When you want a defined flow path across the wall and the option to zone the jacket. Temp-Plate passages carry the medium in a controlled pattern, and seperate zones let a part-filled vessel heat only the wetted section. It also clamps onto existing vessels. Send vessel dimensions, operating fill range and the heating or cooling medium.

Any fluid that would contaminate product without anyone noticing: glycol, treated cooling water, or steam condensate carrying boiler chemicals. Purified water against purified water may not need it. Your risk assessment makes the call, and it has to happen before quoting, since double-wall construction changes the unit's size and price.

If your protocol requires full drainage, say so at quotation, because port location and mounting orientation decide whether it is achievable. A pack with bottom ports on the product side drains well. One piped for convenience may hold liquid that becomes a finding later. Tell us how drainage will be verified.