What should be considered when decommissioning pharmaceutical equipment?
The physical removal of a machine is only one part of a pharmaceutical decommissioning project. Before work starts, the status of the equipment and its interfaces with the facility need to be clear. Which utilities remain connected? Has the equipment been released for dismantling? What is its cleaning status? Which documents belong with the asset? Does another production area need to remain operational? And where is the equipment going after removal?
These questions affect the dismantling sequence, handling, packaging and transport. They can also affect the future value of an asset. Equipment intended for reuse may need available manuals, drawings, maintenance information or other technical records to remain identifiable and useful to a receiving facility. SSMI incorporates these practical requirements into the project plan, working with the information and procedures provided by your site.
Used pharmaceutical equipment from industrial projects
Pharmaceutical equipment released from one production environment may still have years of useful service ahead. SSMI brings suitable surplus machinery from industrial projects back to the market, giving manufacturers access to used pharmaceutical processing and packaging equipment while helping asset owners recover value.
Depending on current projects, available equipment may include tablet presses, capsule filling machines, granulation equipment, fluid bed processors, blenders, mills, coating equipment, process vessels, reactors, centrifuges, filling equipment and pharmaceutical packaging machinery. Complete production lines may also become available.
Equipment information and documentation
Buying used pharmaceutical machinery requires more than matching a manufacturer and model to a technical requirement. The previous application, materials of construction, capacity, equipment history and available documentation can all be relevant when assessing an asset. The information available differs from machine to machine.
Where available, our equipment listings can include details such as manufacturer, model, year, serial number, previous application, technical specifications, location and available documentation.
We state what is available rather than making assumptions about an asset. The receiving manufacturer remains responsible for assessing whether equipment is suitable for its intended use and for any qualification or validation required within its production environment.
Pharmaceutical equipment currently available
Our inventory changes as equipment becomes available through decommissioning and asset disposal projects. Each listing contains the information available for that specific asset, allowing your engineering and procurement teams to make an initial assessment before discussing the equipment with us..
