Clean air and containment equipment

Medtronics, Galway, Ireland

Drug eluting arterial stent manufacture


Principle features of project:

  • Total spend to date in excess of £3m over a sequence of projects including:
    • Drug end item lines
    • Polymer coating lines
    • Finishing lines
  • 150 units in total including:
    • Unidirectional airflow cabinets
    • Isolators
    • Safety cabinets
    • Fume cupboards
    • Controlled atmosphere isolators
  • All cabinets and isolators non-standard and developed further in conjunction with the users with each successive phase
  • Innovative design for a fully automated nitrogen purge isolator incorporating a microscope and with sequenced transfer chambers

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