Ointment & Cream Manufacturing Plant
Gem Pharma’s high-quality Ointment/Lotion Manufacturing Plant is ideal for the preparation of skincare cosmetics, haircare products, gels, lotions and other FMCG products. It comes with easy cleaning technology to ensure no contamination of the product. It comes with pre-mixing wax and water phase vessels along with the main manufacturing vessel. Moreover, Gem Pharma’s Lotion Manufacturing Plant Vessels are made of SS316 and designed in compliance with cGMP norms.
Gem Pharma’s high tech ointment manufacturing plant comes with a complete cover lifting facility for cleaning when the batches of products are changed. In addition, this lotion plant has variable speed drive for main anchor stirrer assembly for various speeds. It comes with the jacketed vessels for heating and cooling process. Moreover, to ensure proper filtration, it comes with specially designed inline filters.
Equipped with the integrated automatic control panel and cutting edge technology, Gem Pharma’s manufacturing unit is one of the best options available today. Lotion Manufacturing Plant is most suitable for the cosmetic and FMCG industry for the production of skincare cosmetics, haircare products, gels, lotions and other emulsions.
Equipment Used in Lotion Plant
- Wax heating Vessel.
- Water Melting Vessel.
- Manufacturing vessel.
- Storage vessel.
- Interconnecting pipeline.
- Pumps -Lobe Pumps, Metering Pumps, Vacuum Pumps.
- Integrated automatic control panel.
- Working Platform.
Salient Features
- Easily cleanable and completely untouched process, hence less chance of contamination.
- All contact parts made of SS 316 and non-contact parts of SS 304 material.
- All pipelines are electro polished from inside and joints are easily openable.
- Complete cover lifting arrangement to facilitate cleaning at the time of batch change.
- Special Semi-Contra & Double Contra designed anchor stirrer with flexible Teflon scrapers.
- The plant is provided with pre-mixing wax and water phase vessels and the main manufacturing vessel.
- The main vessel is provided with a slow speed anchor agitator for mixing and a bottom high speed homogenizer for emulsifying.
- Variable speed drive provided for main anchor stirrer assembly for different speeds.
- Jacketed vessels for heating/cooling processes.
- Inspection glass with illumination.
- Specially designed inline filters can also be provided to ensure proper filtration.
- All gaskets are made of food grade silicon.
- Complete plant is equipped with CIP and SIP connections.
- Entire plant can be operated by 1 person using the PLC based control panel for process automation.
- Emergency stop button along with safety pressure valve and limit switch for top lid as part of safety features.
- Available in sizes ranging from 10 litres to 25,000 litres.
Optional Requirements
- Load cell for accurate weighing.
- Contra type agitator for calcium base toothpaste.
- Electric or steam based heating as per client requirements.
- SIP and CIP.
- Flameproof designs for motor, gear boxes, limit switches etc.
Process Description
- Wax is melted in Wax melting vessel; Water is heated in water heating vessel.
- Both wax and water are transferred into the manufacturing vessel automatically through vacuum.
- In manufacturing vessel both wax and water are homogenized to make a uniform emulsion and cooled by passing chilled water or heated by passing steam into the jacket of manufacturing vessel.
- After the emulsion is formed active ingredients/colors etc are added and are thoroughly mixed and homogenized.
- The same is transferred by pump into the storage vessel. From the storage vessel it is automatically transferred into the filling machine by means of metering pump.
- Flow rate of metering pump can be set as per your tube filling machines speed and capacity.