Life Sciences
Welded Bellows for Freeze Drying, Pharmacuetical Packaging and more...
THE MARKET TREND
The Life Sciences Equipment Market, composed of Biotech, Pharma and Medtech sectors, must ramp-up to support the acceleration in time to market for vaccines and other biologics and the increased rate of drug approvals by the FDA.
GMP [Good Manufacturing Practice] regulations developed by the US FDA, require that manufacturers, processors and packagers of drugs, medical devices, some food and blood take proactive steps to ensure their products are safe, pure and effective.
WHERE ARE KSM Edge Welded Metal Bellows USED?
For decades KSM has supplied an array of custom designed components to OEM’s serving Life Science locations in Europe, Asia and the USA. Assemblies from 2-story Pharmaceutical [Freeze-Dryer]
Lyophilizer Bellows to the small CT Scanning Devices are manufactured in our ISO 6 [Class 1000] Clean Room.
APPLICATIONS INCLUDE:
- Actuators
- Elevator Bellows
- Rack Positioners
- Beam Aligners
- Expansion Joints
- Stoppering Bellows
- Chamber Feedthroughs
- Flexible Connectors
- Vacuum Valve Seals
- Drive Couplings
- Mushroom Bellows
- Vibration Dampeners
- Dryer Door Mechanisms
- Piston Bellows Assemblies
- Volume Compensating Reservoirs
WHAT ARE THE KSM ADVANTAGES?
- CLEANLINESS: KSM offers the highest levels of product cleanliness and purity; starting with our seperate Automated Component Parts Cleaning Lines to our Class 6 [1000] Clean Room for Welding & Assembly and Class 5 [100] Final Inspection and Packaging area.
- BELLOWS MATERIAL: For Pharmaceutical Plant Drug Filling and Packaging, KSM Bellows Assemblies are designed with FDA approved 316L SST for aseptic processing. For other applications in this market typical alloys are: AM-350, SST, High Nickel Alloys (Hynes, Hastelloy and etc.) and Titanium GR2.
- END FLANGE SPECIAL PROCESSING: To optimize periodic Steam or Hydrogen Peroxide cleaning, KSM offers Electro-polishing of the 316L SST machined components.
- SPECIAL DESIGN: Can custom design builds with complex guides and ‘non-standard’ stroke: (Offset, Angular, Lateral)
- CAPACITY: Production Capacity from the world’s largest edge welded fabrication site and Clean Room can meet your needs from prototypes to high volume.
- LOGISTICS: KSM regularly ships to over 50 countries around the world and maintains large climate-controlled warehouse for all raw materials – with full component traceability (PMI Tested: Material Purity).
- SUPPORT: KSM maintains a fully equipped Metrology Lab for component evaluation and cleanliness verification plus separate R&D Testing Lab on campus.
