Flooring System Limits Spread of Contamination at Takeda Pharma

Dycem is a world leading manufacturer and supplier of contamination control floor solutions for critical environments. The products produced are solely manufactured in the UK at its Bristol site and are sold globally in more than 50 countries to many of the world’s leading corporations.

Today, thousands of cleanrooms, critical areas and controlled environments are protected by Dycem polymeric contamination control flooring, enabling all organisations to reduce particle counts by up to 99.9%. This contributes to eradicating contamination and cross contamination and therefore increases product yields and ultimately profit.

Dycem has been manufacturing contamination control zones since 1966, with headquarters in Bristol, UK, Warwick, Rhode Island, US, and Santa Rosa, Philippines, and was this year recognised for its manufacturing excellence by being nominated as a finalist for the South West exporter of the year. The company also manufactures to all relevant international standards, with the minimum carbon footprint.

Dycem has a commitment to quality, total customer satisfaction and product development, which has earned the company recognition across the globe. The company’s user base of thousands includes blue chip companies such as Sony, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly, Abbott, Johnson and Johnson, Motorola, Roche, IBM, Pfzer, Rolls Royce, Nestle, Bombardier, Intel, Seagate, Takeda, Nokia, Honda, BMW, Heinz and Texas Instruments. Dycem is suitable for the smallest to the largest company as it is flexible, versatile and can be bespoke installed to individual needs.

In addition, with a continuous improvement management strategy, Dycem has developed and improved the design and ability of its materials to trap and retain particles down to the nano scale.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and Takeda Pharma Sp. z o.o.

Headquartered in Japan, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd is a global, research-based organisation with its main focus on pharmaceuticals.

Takeda Pharma Sp. z o.o. in Poland produces, distributes and trades in medicinal products and dietary supplements; these drugs are produced for both domestic and foreign markets.

Challenge faced by Takeda Pharma

Takeda was searching for a solution that would prevent the spreading of dust by the footwear of employees and forklift trucks in dusty production areas such as weighing rooms.

Furthermore, Takeda was looking to reduce the spread of contamination under the footwear of employees entering from production areas to the cloakroom/changing areas and back in the other direction.

Placement of Dycem contamination control flooring

After a site survey by Dycem’s contamination control representative, Dycem flooring systems were installed in the production corridor under door openings leading to the weighing room. There were further installations in the cloakrooms/changing areas for male and female employees in Takeda’s grey clean zone.

Verdict

Three months after their installation, Takeda has reported that ‘Dycem flooring systems have considerably limited the spread of contamination by employees moving from the production area to the cloakrooms/changing areas. The installation of Dycem has resulted in a sizeable reduction of the quantities of dust transported by employees exiting dusty areas, i.e. the weighing rooms. Finally, the installation of Dycem has reduced floor contamination and also the effort required and costs of maintaining cleanness of the remaining production areas’.

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