Concept

 

The plant was built by the Belgian company PROPHAREX within 12 months, and installed on site within several weeks (August to September 2004).

The "turn key" pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is a product of the Belgian company PROPHAREX. This company developed an original concept and uses sea containers (40 feet, or 12 x 2,35 x 2,68m, for a volume of 75,5 cubic meters) which it fully renovates and transforms into pre-installed pharmaceutical clean rooms.

This concept offers the following advantages:

• Equipments and manufacturing processes follow a strict application of GMP standards (Good Manufacturing Principles);

• Standardization of rooms and equipments allowing for quick construction and easy maintenance;

• Optimizing the manufacturing area's dimensions in order to reduce cost of air conditioning and of air filtration.

PROPHAREX conceived the plant based on requirements from the Gabonese authorities and on the country and the region's characteristics. In the purpose of global success, PROPHAREX also brings in its expertise to prepare all procedures defining the usage of all equipments but also of the plant in general.

Last but not least, during the launch time of the plant, the Belgian company supplies active ingredients and molecules that are certified through its own laboratory, registered with the Belgian health ministry.

 

The pharmaceutical plant is composed of 2 distinctive parts:

• The manufacturing area: 320 sq.m. is composed of 13 containers placed side by side. A central corridor is cut through this structure and offers access to 24 independent manufacturing cells, each one of these cells being focused on a specific stage of the production of dry forms. The last container is used exclusively as a technical zone.

• The other area: 736 sq.m., hosts warehouses for raw materials, for semi finished and for finished products, as well as the quality control laboratory and the changing rooms.

Both these parts are joined and integrated in one large structure, but thermally isolated and separated by "sandwich" panels that corresponds to pharmaceutical standards.

There are no outside windows (blind plant).