At Lessines, we don't skimp on quality!
Becoming Japan's leader in the pharmaceutical industry, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd was established in 1781. At the time, its founder, Chobei Takeda, opened a business selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines in Osaka.
Since then, the company has grown into a large group, present in over 80 countries and employing over 50,000 people worldwide; it focuses on treatments related to gastroenterology, oncology, central nervous system, cardiovascular diseases and vaccines.
His Lessines site in Belgium is a center of excellence for immunoglobulin purification; it recently acquired a new state-of-the-art biotechnology production unitand for this, the pharmaceutical giant called on our experts. Pierre Guerin intervened for the fabrication of 8 new process vessels (6 pressure process vessels and 2 Ultrafiltration DiaFiltration vessels, with very high finish and quality requirements) for a purification line for the manufacture of 2 immunoglobin-based products.
This is not the first time the Group has trusted Pierre Guerin with its expertise in blood derivatives. This represented a fine challenge for our colleagues, since the project is the fruit of close collaboration between the French and Spanish teams; engineering, including the sizing of the agitators thanks to CFD (Computational Fluid Dyanmics)* calculations carried out by Pierre Guerin France, and manufacturing, delivery and installation by Pierre Guerin Iberica - Spain.
They can be proud to export their very specific know-how to the other end of Europe, to an international leader that has been operating for over 240 years in a field where the right to make mistakes is equal to Zero!
* Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) ou in French, Mécanique des Fluides Numérique (MFN) is numerical computation applied to fluid mechanics. Numerical simulations take into account numerous parameters such as fluid volume, physico-chemical properties such as Reynolds number (ratio of flow inertia forces to viscosity forces), viscosity or Mach number (dimensionless number, denoted Ma, which expresses the ratio of the velocity of an object in a fluid to the speed of sound in the same fluid. As the speed of sound in a gas varies with its nature and temperature, the Mach number does not correspond to a fixed speed, but depends on local conditions.
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