The preparation of vial stoppers for filling lines puts an exceptional challenge on cleaning as well as sterilisation, and in the case of lyo stoppers the dryness demands can also be extreme.

Fedegari integrated stopper-processors achieve the most stringent demands in all these, with a full GMP wash process, (often followed by siliconisation), then a full porous load sterilisation cycle, and –particularly for lyo stoppers- very extensive drying and cooling techniques. The whole process is automatically managed and conducted in a special drum which gently tumbles the load to make sure that the whole process is uniformly delivered to every stopper in the load (typical loads are 30,000 to 120,000  stoppers, depending on stopper size).

There are further options for contained, sterile, down stream handling to guarantee the conditions of the stoppers presented to the filling line. These are engineered as bespoke projects, matched to the customer’s equipment.

All Fedegari stopper processors also offer the full range of standard conventional saturated steam sterilization processes.                             

Full system self-CIP/SIP can be incorporated.