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With sites in Kings Lynn and Milton Keynes, Bespak design, develop and manufacture speciality medical devices, including metered dose inhalers (MDI), dry powder devices, actuators and compliance aids.
TT’s Glossop office had total responsibility for the design and installation of a controlled environment, electrical services and civil works within an existing building on the Norfolk site. In this environment, built to cleanroom standards, the client has established a specialised and dedicated elastomer manufacturing unit to produce moulded seals for medical devices. The high quality building was originally constructed in 2001 by TT as part of Bespak’s MDI expansion programme.
The 500 square metres has been refurbished and separated into three distinct areas. Approximately half the area at ground level was divided-off with a full building-height wall to accommodate a number of rubber moulding presses. In the machine section there is a raised deck, designed by TT for the previous project, to accommodate the under floor services pipework which terminates above ground at individual machine service hubs. Also within this area a false ceiling was installed to house the electrical services, inlet grilles and extract air connections, with the ductwork supported in the void above the ceiling and the buildings pitched roof.
The remaining half of the ground floor is devoted to the raw material processing, including an extruder and a grinding mill, fed from an intermixing and loading point located directly above on a specially designed mezzanine floor.
Extraction hoods and ductwork remove fumes and convey the return air to two air handling units installed outside the plant. Both air handling units, together with air cooled condensers, supply comfort heating and cooling to all areas. A separate unitary dust collector and ductwork system extracts the larger particles from the intermixing and loading point.