Bioscience filtration company expands Birtley site with new cleanroom facility

Parker Bioscience Filtration has enhanced its manufacturing capabilities with the launch of a new ISO class 7 cleanroom facility at its site in Birtley, UK.

The cleanroom, which opened this month, forms part of a major phased investment programme at the Birtley site and will be dedicated to the manufacture of single-use assemblies used in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The assemblies are supplied to customers fully assembled and pre-irradiated ready for direct use in their cleanroom facilities in the manufacture of drug products.

In tandem with the launch of the new cleanroom, the Birtley site will see the introduction of a new manufacturing area for single-use sensing technologies used in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The new 600 m2 cleanroom is set to complement the existing cleanroom facilities and provide additional manufacturing capacity for single-use technologies at the UK site, which already has 2,400 m2 of cleanroom facilities dedicated to the manufacture of filtration products and the manufacture of single-use assemblies.

Mike Brailsford, general manager at Parker Bioscience Filtration, said: “The opening of a new ISO Class 7 cleanroom in Birtley will shorten the supply chain for our global customers and enhance our ability to meet growing market demand for single-use assemblies in the biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector.

“Alongside other developments taking place at our UK site as part of the investment programme, the launch of new cleanroom facility demonstrates Parker Hannifin’s commitment to our European customer base.”