Encap's cGMP manufacturing facilities includes:

• 15,000 square foot total cleanroom area
• Dedicated high containment suite
• High volume manufacturing cleanroom
• 3 further capsule liquid filling rooms
• 1 capsule powder filling room
• 2 blisterpacking rooms
• 1 capsule coating room
• 1 GMP development room

Encap's high containment suite

• Class 100,000 specification
• Occupational Exposure Limits (OEL) <0.1 µg m³
• 100% air extraction, 100% air make up HVAC system
• High containment barrier isolator
• 160L mixing vessel
• Liquid filling machine (40,000 capsules / hour)
• Band sealer (70,000 capsules / hour)

Encap's manufacturing equipment includes:

• 20L sealed and jacketed mixer with paddle and high-shear
• 200L sealed and jacketed mixer with paddle and high-shear
• 300L sealed and jacketed mixer with paddle and high-shear
• 2 x 1500L filling machines (60,000 capsules / hour)
• 1500L filling machine converted to DuoCap process (30,000 capsules / hour)
• 2 x Banding machines (70,000 capsules / hour)
• Powder filling machine
• Isolation cabinet for pilot scale use
• Capsule coater
• Fully automated blisterpacker and cartonner
• Blisterpacker and cartonner for clinical trial volume

Encap's intermediate scale manufacturing equipment includes:         

• 1 x Semi-automatic filling and banding machine (1,000 capsules / hour)
• 2 x Semi automatic capsule filling machine
• Semi automatic banding machine

 Encap also has a wide range of bench scale mixing, capsule filling and sealing equipment to handle grams of material up to kg scale.

Encap's analytical facilities include:       

• 4,000 square foot total laboratory area
• 10 HPLC machines, comprising UV, ELSD, fluorescence and RI detection
• 5 Dissolution baths
• 1 Disintegration apparatus
• 1 Karl Fischer Unit
• 1 GC Unit
• 1 FTIR Unit
• 2 UV/Spectrophotometer

 Encap's current headcount

• 12 Production
• 7 Quality Control
• 6 Quality Assurance
• 5 Technical and Engineering Support Services
• 20 Development

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