Freeze Dryers - GEA Pharma Systems

The Freeze Dryer
Product Line
GEA Lyophil’s freeze dryer
product line comprises laboratory
freeze dryers, pilot plants for R&D
purposes or small production
batches, industrial size production
freeze dryers as well as complete
freeze dryer systems consisting of
one or multiple freeze dryers plus
ALUS ® (Automatic Loading and
Unloading System) and isolators.
View into chamber of a GT 300-D
Production Plants
Large scale production plants built
to customer specifications
• Shelf Size 8 - 58 m 2
GEA Lyophil production Freeze Dryers
are either non sterilisable units or steam
respectively VHP sterilisable units for e.g.
• bulk drying for intermediate products
• blood plasma and proteins
• diagnostic agents
• sensitive components
FCM 80-D and FCM 500-D with Transfer Cart
Production Systems
Automation and highest
contamination prevention
The handling of pharmaceutical substances
such as cytostatics creates a high need for
operator and product protection.
A typical Freeze Dryer Production System
incorporates the following components:
• Multiple Freeze Dryers
• Automatic Loading and Unloading
System (ALUS ® )
• Common CIP-Skid
• Isolator or RABs
FCM 10
• SCADA System
Pilot Plants
For R & D and
Small Scale Production
• Shelf Size 0.4 - 8 m 2
GEA Lyophil offers Pilot Plants for the
following applications:
• Product development and process
cycle optimisation
• Up Scaling of the process for later use
in Production Plants
• Small scale production especially by
Biotech customers
GT 2
Lab Units
For Laboratories, Universities
and Research Institutes
• Shelf Size 0.1 - 0.3 m 2
The smallest Freeze Dryer unit in the
product line serves the following
purposes:
• First product development steps
• Preparation of substances for analysis,
e.g. biomasses
• Teaching and demonstrating of the
freeze drying process
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