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Intravenous fluid manufacturing.

A modular plant for the intravenous fluids every hospital uses daily, bringing pharmaceutical manufacturing onto the Medical City campus.

Stage: In development.

Utility District · proposed pharmaceutical plants location

Pharmaceutical technology

At a glance

A plant for intravenous fluids, the saline, dextrose and electrolyte solutions every hospital uses daily, built as prefabricated modules. It builds on more than three decades of Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals in pharmaceutical products and distribution.

On the campus: Proposed for the Utility District, beside the planned power plant and waste treatment facility.
Why here: The Cottage Hospital is a first local customer; the group’s distribution network carries production further.
Workstreams: Plant modules · NAFDAC registration and GMP pathway · Installation on the campus · Distribution
Partners: Pharmaceutical investors and technology partners: co-fund the plant, help select process and equipment partners, and shape the project company.

What it makes

Fluids every hospital needs.

Large-volume infusions for the Cottage Hospital and the wider market, in a range to be confirmed.

Saline (sodium chloride) infusions
Dextrose infusions
Electrolyte solutions

The plant builds on more than three decades of Thompson & Grace Pharmaceuticals. A solid dosage form plant for tablets and capsules is planned to follow.

How sterile fluids are made / 04

From purified water to a released batch.

Purify

Process water is purified to the standard sterile manufacture needs.

Dispense and mix

Ingredients are weighed and dispensed in a controlled room.

Fill

Solutions are filled and sealed in a cleanroom.

Sterilise and release

Batches are sterilised and released after quality testing.

The plant modules

A modular plant, built in sections.

The plant is built as prefabricated modules: process tanks and skid units, a cleanroom module, and weighing and dispensing. Much of it can be built and tested before it reaches the campus.

Stainless-steel process tanks and skid-mounted units of the IV fluids plant under a red steel pipe rack in a large hall — IV fluids plant · process tanks and skid units

White cleanroom module of the IV fluids plant with a personnel door, a viewing window and a hatched emergency panel — IV fluids plant · cleanroom module

Weighing and dispensing station with a stainless-steel vessel behind a strip curtain and a control terminal with a digital scale — IV fluids plant · weighing and dispensing

Open steel-framed process modules with pumps, filters and pipework under a red steel pipe rack — IV fluids plant · process modules

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