Pharmaceutical Industry

For many years, KATES has manufactured equipment for renown companies in both domestic and international pharmaceutical markets. In this sphere, we guarantee quality and workmanship of the highest standard, as well as warranty and post-warranty maintenance services and assembly on the customer’s premises.

For the devices of our manufacture we carry out full qualification and acceptance tests, i.e. FAT, SAT, IQ, OQ, DQ.

To ensure the highest possible level of safety in operating our products, every single item undergoes a thorough analysis of potential risks, whereby the device is classified into an appropriate risk category specified in the relevant European directive. With respect to the risks involved, the equipment of our manufacture falls under the following directives:

• Pressure Equipment Directive (PED)
• Machinery Directive
• Low Voltage Directive (LVD)
• Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directive
• ATEX Directive

In proof of compliance with the pertinent directive(s), we issue a Declaration of Conformity with the directive in question and supply the device with the CE mark.

         The equipment we offer is manufactured according to the specifications and requirements set by the customer, the list of our products including:

• vacuum-pressure and non-pressure reactors
• homogenizing mixers
• process mixers
• loose material mixers
• works transport tanks
• storage tanks
• purified water tanks
• aseptic shell and tube heat exchangers
• mobile and stationary CIP systems
• mixing units for mobile tanks
• fermenters and biofermenters
• powder suction systems:

• an injector-like system, in which powder is sucked in out of a charging hopper as a result of subatmospheric pressure produced by an orifice inside the suction conduit of the installation:

• a vacuum system, in which powders are sucked in by vacuum produced inside the tank (in this case, powders may be sucked into the tank through a flexible hose directly from a container with a weighed out portion of powder):

• filters: a mobile filter with a slotted filter cartridge

The filter is made in an aseptic version with membrane shut-off valves. The filter cartridge itself consists of a slotted screen of 1.4404 (AISI 316L) grade. A pruduct is supplied with a pneumatic membrane pump. At the inlet and outlet of the filter cartridge, there are manometers with membrane separators which signal the filter contamination degree.

• A tray dryer

The product to be dried is put in a drying chamber on sliding trays exposed to hot air flow. The air is heated up with an electric heater. The measurement of the temperature inside the drying chamber is controlled automatically.

• Spherical bottom mixers