Product Handling
Glatt’s product handling systems are designed to serve as the critical link between individual process steps, ensuring smooth and efficient production flow. Each solution is fully customised to meet the unique requirements of the customer.
Whether the process involves weighing, dosing, blending, sieving, transporting, storing, or docking, manually or automatically, Glatt provides the optimal solution. All systems are supplied from a single source, offering reliability, process safety, and operational efficiency across every application.
Glatt offers a comprehensive range of uniform, modular stainless-steel containers specifically designed for the weighing, blending, storing, transporting, and documenting of powders and granules. These containers are available in both square and round designs, with or without accessories, and can be fully tailored to meet the specific needs of each application.
As essential connecting elements between various processing steps, containers are subjected to significant operational loads. To address this, Glatt manufactures robust stainless-steel containers, either as self-supporting structures or reinforced with torsionally rigid frames, depending on individual process requirements. The container portfolio includes GMP-compliant stainless-steel designs with net volumes of up to 3,400 litres. Enhanced models are available for easy cleaning validation, especially suited for containment applications.
Glatt containers can also be customized with additional features to meet specific operational demands. Options include stacking corners, forklift compatibility, rollers, filling covers, filters, discharging aids, transport runners for conveyors, batch documentation holders, bar code identification, and a wide range of other accessory modules. Each solution is precisely configured to support the customer’s unique application and process needs.
Glatt offers a wide range of lifting and discharging systems designed to meet the demands of various applications, whether lifting, lowering, turning, or swinging. Both stationary and mobile systems are available, from simple tank discharging solutions to complex material handling systems. Each system is tailored to individual customer requirements or provided as a multi-functional, universal solution.
All lifting and discharging systems are engineered in customized lengths to suit specific operational needs and can be operated either manually or automatically. These robust and versatile systems support the efficient filling and discharging of various containers, including tanks, barrels, big bags, and product containers.
In stationary systems, lifting and tipping are powered by a reliable hydraulic drive. For smaller containers of up to 170 kilograms, Glatt also offers a mobile version equipped with a manual tilt drive. Larger filling capacities can be achieved using compact system designs enhanced by Glatt’s advanced telescopic technology.
Glatt’s extensive portfolio of lifting and discharging systems provides exceptional flexibility. Solutions can be designed to accommodate special containers, enable adjustable positioning, allow multi-axis movement, or seamlessly integrate with higher-level control systems. Each system is developed to ensure safe, efficient, and user-friendly material handling throughout the production process.
Glatt’s intelligent and flexible suction conveyor systems are designed to gently fill and discharge products into containers and process equipment by directly linking two processing steps. These systems serve as the ideal solution for efficient and safe material handling.
The suction conveyor systems are capable of transporting powders, granulates, and other free-flowing solids with ease and care using low-pressure technology. They are particularly well-suited for horizontal product flow and can handle volumes ranging from 10 to 1,500 liters. The product is conveyed through a product separator that is directly connected to the subsequent process stage, ensuring seamless transfer.
Designed to meet GMP standards, the systems can be fully validated and are suitable for both batch processing and continuous operation when equipped with additional modules. Glatt’s PRO concept, which offers 12-bar pressure-shock resistance, combines the highest safety standards with the stringent requirements of total containment.
Various cleaning solutions are available, including multiple cleaning options up to the fully integrated SuperClean® version. On the exhaust side, the suction conveyor systems are fitted with filters that are automatically cleaned, ensuring ongoing process efficiency and minimal maintenance interruptions.
The handling of high-potency substances in research, development, and production requires the highest levels of safety to protect operating personnel, the product, and the environment.
Glatt’s Containment Valve System TKS has been specifically developed to meet these demands. Featuring two identical static seals, the system ensures contamination-free product transfer between containers. Even substances with stringent OEL (Occupational Exposure Limits) or OEB (Occupational Exposure Bands), including those with requirements in the nanogram range, can be safely transferred without dust emissions. The advanced flap technology integrated into the system provides maximum safety for people, products, and the environment.
When combined with customized docking systems, Glatt offers a wide range of solutions for solid material handling while maintaining the lowest possible emission levels. Each solution is designed with the goal of delivering technically advanced and economically efficient systems that support safe product development and production.
Precise and reproducible weighing and dosing of excipients, supplements, and active ingredients are essential requirements in the manufacturing and refinement of particles from powders or liquids. Glatt offers a comprehensive portfolio of premium weighing and dosing systems designed to meet these critical process needs.
Dosing Systems
Glatt provides a variety of high-precision dosing systems, including rotary feeders, vibratory dosing sieves, and specialized feeders. These systems deliver reliable, high-quality dosing performance, ensuring accuracy and consistent processing results.
Weighing Systems for Large Components
For the direct weighing of raw materials from sacks, big bags, barrels, and containers, Glatt offers tailored solutions that seamlessly integrate into semi-automatic or fully automatic filling and discharging systems, as well as into complete process control systems. Depending on specific requirements and construction preferences, weighing systems are available as free-standing units or as tightly integrated floor-level scales.
Weighing Systems for Small Components
Glatt also provides precise weighing solutions for small quantities, including active substances, additives, and supplements. These systems offer exceptional accuracy and feature documentation capabilities in both paper and digital formats, with integrated interfaces for direct connection to process control systems. For the safe handling of sensitive materials, such as UV-sensitive or hygroscopic substances, specialized weighing cabinets are available, offering additional safety and process reliability.
Glatt’s weighing and dosing solutions are designed to support the highest levels of precision, safety, and process integration across all scales of production.
Glatt offers tailored blending solutions for every blending task. Whether using standard containers, customized transport containers, or barrels, Glatt’s efficient blenders can be seamlessly integrated into existing processing lines. These systems are designed for easy and rapid charging and can reliably handle filling volumes of up to 3,000 liters.
Glatt blenders ensure gentle, contamination-free blending, delivering a homogeneous mix of raw materials and dry granulates. The 30-degree positioning of square containers and the use of a two-axis blender in round containers eliminate the need for additional blending aids. Charging is simplified with the use of a lifting trolley, and various clamping options are available to guarantee an optimal fit for each specific application.
For straightforward blending tasks, Glatt’s tilting container blenders offer an efficient and practical solution. The blender series with a lifting function provides exceptional versatility, supporting applications such as container charging from an upper level, dispensing into target containers, or simultaneously charging production equipment.
For special container sizes and unique design requirements, Glatt’s cage container blender is the ideal choice, delivering effective and homogeneous blending precisely tailored to individual process demands.
Regardless of the blending system selected, all Glatt blenders are equipped with advanced control systems that fully comply with documentation and validation requirements, ensuring process reliability and regulatory compliance.
Glatt offers a versatile container mixer specifically designed for small batch sizes at laboratory scale. This system is ideal for the efficient mixing and homogenization of different or identical powders and granulates within just a few minutes.
Compact and highly adaptable, the mixer is equipped with a safety sensor, freely adjustable mixing times, and stepless speed control ranging from 20 to 120 rpm. The unit is user-friendly, practical to operate, and easy to clean, supporting streamlined laboratory workflows.
To accommodate varying process requirements, the mixer is available with container sizes of 2.5 litres and 10 litres.
