Premature failure of hygienic valve diaphragms has been a recognised problem for the bioprocessing and pharmaceutical industries for a long time. Instances of premature diaphragm failure are all too common and incur significant unscheduled change-out costs with the replacement of all diaphragms and gaskets in the line. In addition there is the potential loss of contaminated production batches and the administration tasks of root cause identification and reporting before production can recommence.
James Walker provides a solution to this problem by delivering Elast-O-Pure® Dynamic – developed with new materials and optimised product design. The new product has been subjected to exhaustive testing under simulated operational conditions to provide a solution that is reliable, predictable and offers longer operational life than existing options.
The new Elast-O-Pure Dynamic designs demonstrated a significant extension of component life expectancy providing the potential to extend the time between seal change-outs and offering the benefit of more production batches per change-out.