Bürkert and BBS-Systems AG of Switzerland have formed an alliance that offers combined competence and a single source of products for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical and food market sectors. The alliance combines Burkert’s valve, sensor, process control, hazardous area and specialist products with BBS’s sterile range of ancillary piping, flanges, connectors, indicators, sampling systems and vessel equipment.
BBS-Systems AG has a comprehensive manufacturing facility in Wil, Switzerland, and over 20 years of hygienic processing experience. The company’s product range has distinctive characteristics to meet all the demands of high quality process applications, complying with all relevant FDA, BPE and BGA standards. It comprises crevice and bacteria trap- free sterile components that ensure consistent and controlled flow to maximise product quality.
In the environment of hygiene processing, where compactness, smart communications, plant footprints, cleaning and sterilization, dead legs, cross-contamination, and validation are everyday concerns, the Bürkert – BBS alliance delivers higher process efficiency and higher yields, by offering unlimited process modularity.
Throughout the sterile process area, the scope of systems and components from the alliance covers all the different application environments, whilst working harmoniously together to provide a totally reliable plant solution.
The key market sub-segments that the alliance is targeting with its new modular systems approach are water treatment, steam and heat transfer, cleaning- in- place, fermentation, downstream processing, batching and mixing, filling, steam production, bulk chemical delivery and waste neutralisation.