Our Process Equipment
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Chemical production sites feature high quality equipment. Our facilities include numerous production, pilot plants and state-of-the-art laboratories. Key technologies include highly-effective ring-closing metathesis, asymmetric hydrogenation with proprietary catalytic systems, chiral enzymatic processing, carbohydrate chemistry as well as Robinson-Schoepf condensation.
Technology on site
- Labso Chimie Fine S.a.r.l
Blanquefort, Bordeaux, France -
The portfolio of Labso Chimie Fine S.a.r.l., France, includes one plant for spray-drying, two plants for synthesis of pharma chemicals and one pilot plant. All plants are equipped with state-of-the-art production units.
Plant for spray-dying- two efficient spray-drying units
- water evaporation capacity of 300 and 200 l/h
Synthesis plants- 16 glass-lined/stainless steel multipurpose reactors of 28 m³ (0.5 - 3 m³)
- reactions of up to 300°C
- microprocessor-controlled induction heating system for high temperature reactions
- five centrifuges
- two filter dryers
- six dryers of different types
- one column for solvent recovery/rectification
Pilot plant- three glass-lined reactors (0.1 - 0.5 m³)
- two filter dryers
- one centrifuge
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Ingelheim, Germany -
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, has long and broad experience in organic synthesis and plant extraction of natural products. Organic synthesis facilities are located at four separate plants. From hammer mills and screw-mixers for preparation of herbal raw material to distillation plants for recovering extraction solvents, our phytochemicals facilities include all appliances necessary to process natural raw material.
Organic synthesis facilities- 90 glass-lined and stainless steel multipurpose reactors of 178m³ (0,5 - 6 m³)
- three bromination reactors
- one cyanobromination facility
- 30 centrifuges of different type
- 35 dryers of different type
- four rectification columns
- 15 hydrogenation units from 6 bars to 150 bars
- Grinding, sieving, milling and mixing equipment
- Tank farm for all important solvents
- Reactors for high and low temperatures: -70°C up to +250°C
Phytochemicals facilities- two extraction plants for herbs with 3x3m³ and 6x6m³ extraction volume
- 16 glass-lined or stainless steel multipurpose reactors with 500 to 2000 l volume
- 10 crystallizers
- 29 dedicated reactors
- one hydrogenation apparatus
- one high vacuum distillation apparatus
- one Robinson-Schöpf condensing plant
- five liquid-liquid extraction plants of different types
- two chromatographic columns (250l and 500l volume) with automatic fraction collector
- six centrifuges of different types
- three filter dryers
- nine tray dryers in different, a tumble mixer and an epicycling screw-mixer in different cleanrooms
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- Bidachem S.P.A.
Fornovo San Giovanni, Bergamo, Italy -
The main production units of Bidachem S.P.A:, Italy occupy 65.000 m³. The site is FDAinspected and ISO 9001 certified production is supported by a well-equipped development laboratory and pilot plant.
Main production units- five filter dryers
- eight dryers of different type
- molecular distillation unit, oil heated
- high-temperature reactors
- two rectifying columns
- two crystallisers
Pilot plant- two stainless steel reactors (0.5 m³)
- two glass-lined reactors (0.13 - 0.4 m³)
- two centrifuges
- Hastelloy "c" static dryer 0.5 m³
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- Boehringer Ingelheim España S.A.
Malgrat de Mar, Barcelona, Spain -
Boehringer Ingelheim España S.A. has 51 multi-purpose reactors with a total volume of approximately 112 m³. Additionally, multipurpose equipment for purification, separation and synthesis steps of alkaloids is located at this site.
Production unit- 10 centrifuges and six filter-dryers for solid/liquid separation
- different types of dryers and drying closets
- vertical extraction columns for liquid-liquid extraction
- extractors for solid-liquid extraction
- rectification columns (6 m³) each for distilling and recovering solvents
- hydrogenation plant with catalyst recovery
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Chemicals Inc.
Petersburg, Virginia, USA -
Boehringer Ingelheim manufacturing facilities in Petersburg, Virginia , include a multi-purpose batch organic chemical production plant and a hydrogenation plant. Schedule II controlled substances are produced in a DEA-approved specialty production facility. Our US site is one of only a handful of facilities worldwide with the ability to process high-potency compounds. It consists of a kilo laboratory and a pilot plant/launch facility designed to carry product opportunities from bench scale through pilot plant to commercial manufacture, operating more than 300 days per year
Main production plant- 18 stainless steel and glass-lined multi-purpose reactors, 90 m³ (range 0.2 - 11.4 m³)
- seven centrifuges
- eight tumbler vacuum dryers
- nine inox dryers
- hydrogenation reactor (one glass/one stainless steel)
- two pressure filter nutsches
- USP purified water system
Speciality buildings- dedicated process laboratory with full analytical capabilities
- fully equipped pilot plant and commercial launch equipment
- kilo laboratory with up to 100 l volume equipment � glass-lined or Hastelloy
- glass-lined reactors of 50, 100, 200 and 400 litres capacity
- two glass-lined multi-purpose reactors - 2 m³ and 3 m³
- centrifuge, tumbler dryer and tray dryer
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