Project Outline

Nutricia is a pharmaceutical company in Liverpool that produces medical baby food. The project was required as it had been found that there existing CIP system did not supply suitable volume of caustic water.

This new system required a new caustic blending skid to be designed and manufactured to strict pharmaceutical hygienic standards. This required a hygienic wash down of our non-ferrous workshop and new procedures put in place to ensure the manufacture was undertaken with the required specifications, our workshop was subjected to random inspections by Nutricia during the project to ensure compliance.

The design aspect of this project required innovative thinking as the area that was available for the skid unit with all of the skid ancillaries was extremely small (cover page) so design with ease maintenance was difficult.

To facilitate the scope and to facilitate the new CIP system, a new steam reducing and heat exchanger station was manufactured (figure 1) this provided process hot water and low pressure steam a section of the site.

The caustic system (Figure 2) required a break-in to the existing caustic system which required a detailed risk analysis due to the corrosive nature of the caustic.

This project required our existing systems and policies to be revised to conform to the strict pharmaceutical requirements of the site.