The fermentation of antibiotics requires machinery specifically designed for the growth of microorganisms
Antibiotics are derived from microorganisms and are produced on an industrial scale by a process of fermentation: currently, antibiotics represent a multibillion-dollar industry which continues to grow each year.
For the the production of antibiotics are used specific machinery as it is not a synthesis process (as in pharmaceutical production) but rather a large-scale fermentation.
The industrial biotechnology provides a fermentation process that starts with the isolation of a microorganism, continues with a controlled growth aimed at maximizing the final product and ends with the refining and isolation of the final product.
The production line type designed for the production of antibiotics includes:
-primary tanks in steel where the initial phase of growth;
-secondary tanks where growth takes place (fermenters)
-a system for the isolation and purification of the broth (as for example the extractors with solvent)
It is important that the machinery and plants for the production of antibiotics:
-are able to maintain suitable conditions of sterility because contamination by unwanted microbes damages the fermentation due to the production of unwanted substances;
-are able to monitor all critical process with appropriate sensors;
-are able to maintain all the conditions optimal for growth (temperature, agitation)
-are able to provide, with suitable dispensers substances useful for fermentation (water, acids, ammonia and other nitrogen sources).
Angelo Pilotta S.r.l. – production lines for antibiotics manufacturing – Via F.lli Cervi, 10 – Rho (Milano) – Italy – tel. +39 02/93909023