ROCOL^® Expertise Eliminates Contamination Risks

High performance, NSF H1 registered lubricants from ROCOL are playing a crucial role in helping pharmaceutical manufacturers avoid the risk of contamination by enabling the implementation of safe maintenance programmes throughout their plants.

ROCOL has just implemented an innovative lubrication solution for one of the pharmaceutical industry’s largest producers, helping it eliminate a contamination risk on a tablet press which punches tablet packs using 55 rotating heads.

ROCOL responded swiftly to the customer’s needs with a solution that leaves maintenance teams 100% confident that only NSF H1 registered lubricants are being used to lubricate the tablet press in the right quantities.

ROCOL developed a range of single use bespoke lubricant sachets for the machinery, each containing the right type of FOODLUBE^® lubricant for the application.  The tamper-proof sachets feature a directional tear-off nozzle and contain the correct amount of lubricant to avoid the risk of excessive lubrication.

As one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of NSF H1 registered lubricants for clean industries, ROCOL provides high level technical expertise and advice to ensure pharmaceutical product manufacturers can minimise the risks of contamination through effective maintenance programmes.

The company’s technical manager Paul King delivered a presentation on this subject recently at the prestigious IMechE Conference, during which he provided the latest insights into how pharmaceutical manufacturers can optimise safety.

He says, “Through our experience in working with major pharmaceutical product manufacturers we fully understand the importance of risk avoidance.

“Our ‘off the shelf’ lubricant range provides solutions for the most widely used applications and processes in the pharmaceutical industry, and this is supplemented where required with bespoke lubricants formulated in-house.  This ensures we can cover the whole plant with risk-free, safety assured lubrication solutions.”

ROCOL provides lubricants for a wide range of pharmaceutical manufacturing applications including mixers, coaters, blister machines and tablet presses.  All products are from its FOODLUBE^® range and are NSF H1 registered, which means they are independently certified as safe for use in clean industries.

A new brochure providing maintenance engineers in the pharmaceutical industry with guidance on how to optimise their plant safety, reliability and service life has just been published by ROCOL.  To obtain a copy call ROCOL on 0113 232 2600.