Containment valves designed for the pharmaceutical industry

The demand for equipment and specialized solutions for the protection of the work environment and the product itself (in the pharmaceutical industry) are continually rising. Consequently, Buck Valve® has since the introduction of the Buck® High Containment Valve in the mid '90's, consistently designed and introduced new products for containment. Today the Buck Valve® range is regarded as the most efficient, safe, and well documented range of containment interfaces in the world. The C, HC & UHC, TC and MC containment valve systems from Buck Valve® provide ideal solutions for a broad spectrum of tasks in the pharmaceutical industry that comply with varying limits on emission.

These technologies provide high personal and product protection during all stages of the charge and discharge process of high potent APIs as they form a dust and contamination free interface.

Buck Valve® TC (Total Containment) Valve

Buck Valve® has met the challenge of creating innovative and individualized solutions that guarantee the highest possible degree of cleanliness and safety during transfer of highly sensitive or highly active materials with the Buck Valve® TC (Total Containment). Buck Valve® TC is a exacting system based on the split-valve principle of the highly successful HC (High Containment) docking system, but designed to meet far more stringent requirements.

Buck Valve® HC (High Containment) Valve

Regarding the correct methods for product handling, the pharmaceutical industry is continually being confronted by increasing requirements. Wherever solid material transfer takes place, the restrictions on dust emission must be adhered to. One of the major aspects of the restrictions is the protection of both products and personnel during production processes in the chemical and especially the pharmaceutical industries. Restrictions apply particularly to dust-free charging and discharging of production units with sensitive or toxic powders right up to granulates - a challenge which the equipment from Buck Valve® comprehensively meets.

Docking systems like the patented split-valve technology from Buck Valve®, for example, the Buck Valve® HC, have an excellent reputation world wide. These systems consist of an active and a passive valve that are able to seal (dustproof) two different container systems independently of each other. The active "split valve" is located on the fixed production unit and can be activated manually or automatically. The passive split valve is attached to a mobile receptacle by means of variable attachment options and has an additional mechanical lock that prevents it from opening on its own without the active unit.

Buck Valve® C - The Standard Split Valve

The Buck Valve® C is a low cost contained split valve solution. The "C" in Buck Valve® C, stands for 'basic containment.' Although Buck Valve® C is a low cost version of the Buck Valve® HC, it offers very impressive containment, and has been designed to achieve levels down to 10 ug/m³.

The benefits of a 'C' containment system include:

• The ability to manufacture more potent drugs, either now or for future drugs; newer drugs are increasingly more potent, and as these gradually loose patent protection, generic manufacturers need the equipment to handle these drugs safely.
• Reduced risk of product cross contamination; this is of particular benefit to multi-product plants.
• Good house keeping; no powder trails left through the plant.

Buck® Sampler - Contamination Free Sampling

Buck® Sampler is developed specially for process sampling purposes by gravity in combination with common used parts for product sampling out of remaining processes, like granulation, drying etc. The Sampler firstly allows a fully contained sampling process, even ensuring a process related pressure resistance during all stages of docking, sampling and undocking.

Undocked & closed

Docked & closed

Docked & opened