Aphena Pharma Solutions has added a new blending area to its Easton, MD facility, with capabilities to offer heat or cold blending for large volumes of ointments, suspensions, creams, lotions, gels and other products that require heating and/or cooling.
 
The new area includes the following equipment: Lee 1,000- and 5,000-gallon tanks, both with side and bottom sweep, a Silverson 250-gallon jacketed with mixer, cold-blending tanks with capacities of 1,100, 750 and 500 gallons, and a new reverse osmosis USP purified water system that can process more than 6,000 gallons per day.
 
These additions expand the company’s blending capacity to more than 2.9 million gallons annually, with heating capabilities in the range of 120-180 degrees F and the ability to offer suspension blending and emulsion blending.
 
Further expansions are planned for an explosion-proof blending area that includes 3,000-, 2,000-, 1,000- and 500-gallon tanks to handle solvent and volatile blending (such as hand sanitizers, wart removers and liquid bandage products).