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ACS Dobfar employs PlantPAx for precise control of new downstream installation
Leading pharmaceutical company turns its hand to fish food, using existing fermenter and state-of-the-art process control solution from Rockwell Automation
Background
ACS Dobfar, a privately owned Italian Company, owns 13 Production Sites, seven of which are US FDA inspected. It is among the top five chemical pharmaceutical companies in the world and is one of the world's major producers of bulk Cephalosporins and Penicillin, both for oral use and for injection. It exports its active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) all over the world. It is a leading exporter to the US market as well as to other countries throughout the world. Despite constant and strong competition in emerging markets, ACS Dobfar retains an important share of the global market thanks to strict quality control, investment in Research and Development know-how, human resources and vertical and international integration. In recent project, it was approached by a large Japanese company to take on the production of Astaxanthin, a supplement which provides polivitaminic compounds for salmon food, providing colouring for flesh and skin. The approach was made because ACS Dobfar owns one of a few remaining large-scale fermentation plants in Europe and the production of the fish food supplement differed very little from that of traditional pharmaceutical compounds. For the processing solution, ACS Dobfar turned to Rockwell Automation and its PlantPAx process control solution.
Challenge
The company needed a plantwide system that was practical, reliable and able to interact with all the PLCs on the various pieces of process equipment. It also needed a solution that was modular, flexible and could interface with major networks such as ControlNet, DeviceNet and ModBus, while also offering redundancy and diagnostics.
The fermentation technology remained the same, but the company needed a brand new downstream facility, located in a new building and set a very tight deadline for the installation to be completed. "An additional challenge lay in the fact that this was a new process," explains Renato Donnarumma, Chief Executive of ACS Dobfar's Engineering Department. "With any new process you are faced with peculiarities specific to that process and you have to overcome them. We also had to bring in equipment that differed from our normal plant, including a new filter drier, and we also had to build a new clean room."
The downstream process takes the broth from the fermenter and processes and purifies it. Although it is "just fish food" it still has to be treated with same quality considerations as much of the company's existing APIs.
Please find more in the link to an external website!
Leading pharmaceutical company turns its hand to fish food, using existing fermenter and state-of-the-art process control solution from Rockwell Automation
Background
ACS Dobfar, a privately owned Italian Company, owns 13 Production Sites, seven of which are US FDA inspected. It is among the top five chemical pharmaceutical companies in the world and is one of the world's major producers of bulk Cephalosporins and Penicillin, both for oral use and for injection. It exports its active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) all over the world. It is a leading exporter to the US market as well as to other countries throughout the world. Despite constant and strong competition in emerging markets, ACS Dobfar retains an important share of the global market thanks to strict quality control, investment in Research and Development know-how, human resources and vertical and international integration. In recent project, it was approached by a large Japanese company to take on the production of Astaxanthin, a supplement which provides polivitaminic compounds for salmon food, providing colouring for flesh and skin. The approach was made because ACS Dobfar owns one of a few remaining large-scale fermentation plants in Europe and the production of the fish food supplement differed very little from that of traditional pharmaceutical compounds. For the processing solution, ACS Dobfar turned to Rockwell Automation and its PlantPAx process control solution.
Challenge
The company needed a plantwide system that was practical, reliable and able to interact with all the PLCs on the various pieces of process equipment. It also needed a solution that was modular, flexible and could interface with major networks such as ControlNet, DeviceNet and ModBus, while also offering redundancy and diagnostics.
The fermentation technology remained the same, but the company needed a brand new downstream facility, located in a new building and set a very tight deadline for the installation to be completed. "An additional challenge lay in the fact that this was a new process," explains Renato Donnarumma, Chief Executive of ACS Dobfar's Engineering Department. "With any new process you are faced with peculiarities specific to that process and you have to overcome them. We also had to bring in equipment that differed from our normal plant, including a new filter drier, and we also had to build a new clean room."
The downstream process takes the broth from the fermenter and processes and purifies it. Although it is "just fish food" it still has to be treated with same quality considerations as much of the company's existing APIs.
Please find more in the link to an external website!
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