Vaccine Filling Line

An automated vaccine filling line is a closed, pharmaceutical conveyor system that sterilises, fills, labels, bags and seals bottles or containers with zero human contact to guarantee complete sterility. High-end configurations can process hundreds of units per minute while adhering to strict global regulatory manufacturing standards.

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Our bespoke ‘turnkey’ pharmaceutical bulk liquid and automatic bagging line was created in conjunction with industry-specific process engineers for use in sanitary cleanroom environments. The process equipment contains everything required to fill empty bottles/containers, sanitise them, apply specific labels, load them into vacuum-sealed bags, seal them, turn them to the correct orientation, as well as weigh them all prior to being loaded onto a trolley before transportation.

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Empty bottles/containers arrive at the filling line either by conveyor system or on trolleys. Usually, for the volume of bottle/containers initially manually filled, trolleys are sufficient, but the system allows growth to incorporate a conveyor system and accumulation in the future.

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The bottles are then filled through tubes, that have valves already fitted, which uses a clamp and crimp system to hold the filling tubes in position and clamp them until filling is completed then releases them so they can continue the conveyor.

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A vision system identifies each bottle/container and holds it in position to have a unique coded label applied. Once passed this section the bottles can be turned to be bagged in the correct orientation.

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Bottles/containers are lifted via a mechanical head clamp that raises them, so they are above the open bags they’re going to be placed into.

 

Bags are loaded ‘cassette’ style into a trolley that then locates back into the bagging area. The bags are lifted via a suction head, re-orientated and held in place fully open so the bottles/containers are lowered into the bags where the air is removed and the top-strip heat sealed and excess removed. The excess is dropped into a side chute where the waste can be collected and disposed of as required.​