New facilities for medical devices

Published: 6-Mar-2014
Design & Build Medical Devices

Refurbishing facilities is often more complex than building from scratch. Paul Morley, Operations Director, Chalcroft Construction, outlines the creation of two cleanrooms in an existing facility at the medical device manufacturer, Bespak

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A global supplier of drug delivery devices for injectable and inhaled products, Bespak has contributed to the design and manufacture of some of the world’s leading medical devices. The company employs more than 600 people and produces in excess of 500 million medical devices a year, supporting projects from pilot-scale through to commercial supply. It has many partnerships with leading pharmaceutical and biotech industry clients.

Given the highly-regulated environment in which Bespak, a Consort Medical company, and its customers operate, supply performance is rated by stringent customer-defined measures and product quality is measured on a parts per million defect basis. To meet the requirements of its expanding customer base and to increase its product development and production capability, Bespak needed to create two new, dedicated aseptic cleanrooms to perform to ISO 8 standard in operation and ISO 7 at rest, at its King’s Lynn facilities.

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