ICS Cool Energy leaps to rescue of pharma company

With mounting pressures and a variety of hurdles thrown at the pharmaceuticals market — from escalating R&D costs right through to fiscal and governmental austerity measures — production schedules need to be tight and problems quickly rectified. A case in point is a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing firm with bases in the UK and Europe that won a contract to develop a pharmaceutical drug for the MoD. Stringent targets were put in place to ensure that each element of the manufacturing process was managed with precision. However, one of the production lines was left out of action when a chiller failed whilst serving a granulation machine during manufacture of the drug. With order deadlines pressing, the company required immediate action and turned to ICS Cool Energy’s hire division for emergency cooling support.

Possessing an understanding of both the cooling equipment and fault, ICS Cool Energy acted fast and supplied a temporary TAEevo 351 chiller that, thanks to the firm’s installation team, was installed to restore cooling overnight, ready for the business’ opening hours the very next day.

Following installation of the system, ICS Cool Energy hire division’s sales director Russ Baker commented: “Companies operating in the pharmaceutical sector need to ensure that the very best standard of temperature control is in place at all times. For tight production schedules such as this, downtime and delays can be detrimental, especially with competition in the sector being so high. ICS Cool Energy’s hire division provides fast acting, comprehensive cooling and heating support, keeping businesses covered, if and when a breakdown occurs.”

The temporary cooling in place, and with minimum downtime and knock-on effect to the business, production was able to commence as normal.

ICS Cool Energy, www.coolenergy.co.uk.