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PrestiVac

Vacuum solutions engineered for pharmaceutical manufacturing

Sterile environments, potent powders, validated cleaning and combustible excipients — pharmaceutical housekeeping carries more simultaneous requirements than any other industry. The equipment has to satisfy all of them at once.

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  • Stainless Construction

    Wash-down friendly, hygienic surfaces

  • HEPA Filtration

    99.99% at 0.3 µm final stage

  • Containment-Oriented

    Capture at source, sealed disposal

  • Validation-Friendly

    Documented, repeatable cleaning methods

  • Explosion-Proof

    Manufacturing specialists

  • 1000+

    Vacuums sold worldwide

  • USA

    Designed & manufactured

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    Buy from the manufacturer

  • NFPA 660

    ATEX / IECEx principles

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing production process explorer

Every stage. Every challenge. The right vacuum solution.

Powder escapes at every step between the warehouse and the blister pack — each stage below is a dust generation point with its own recovery requirement.

Stage 01 — Raw material handling

Bag dumps and container transfers liberate excipient and API dust at receiving — the program's first capture point, and where sealed disposal habits are set.

Key challenges

Complex environments demand exact equipment

  • Cross-contamination

    Product carryover between batches and lines is a quality event — recovery equipment must capture, contain and clean down.

  • Combustible powders

    Lactose, starches, sugars, cellulose and many APIs are combustible dusts; housekeeping falls under NFPA combustible-dust requirements.

  • Cleaning validation

    Cleaning must be consistent and demonstrable — a defined vacuum method beats variable manual technique.

  • Regulatory documentation

    GMP expectations reach housekeeping: defined methods, schedules and records.

  • Downtime & efficiency

    Changeover cleaning is on the critical path; faster, single-pass recovery shortens it.

  • Worker exposure

    Potent compounds drive exposure limits far below nuisance-dust levels — capture at the source with HEPA-retained exhaust.

Dust & materials knowledge center

Understand the dusts. Choose the right recovery.

Common Pharmaceutical Manufacturing materials and recovery approaches
MaterialCombustibleRecovery approachDeep dive
LactoseYesHEPA-filtered recovery; explosion-proof where quantity and area classification require
API powdersCommonly — treat as combustible until testedContainment-oriented HEPA recovery sized to the compound's exposure limit
SugarYesExplosion-proof recovery; a classic combustible dust
StarchYesExplosion-proof recovery with grounded accessories
Microcrystalline celluloseYesHEPA-filtered recovery; grounded path for fine fractions
TalcNo — inert mineralHEPA-filtered recovery for hygiene and exposure control

Combustibility and severity are material- and particle-size-specific — testing and your Dust Hazard Analysis govern. Full directory: pharmaceutical dusts.

Applications in pharma

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Representative case study

Containing Combustible Excipient Dust in a Tablet Facility

How a representative North American contract manufacturer brought lactose and blend dust under control in its compression suites — satisfying explosion safety, exposure limits and cleaning validation with one recovery architecture.

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Get the right explosion proof vacuum for your application.

Tell us what you need to vacuum and where. Our technical team will recommend the PrestiVac model best suited to your material, your classification and how hard you will work it — and because we build every unit ourselves, we can modify it to fit.

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