Boehringer Ingelheim Austria GmbH - Biopharmaceutical plant

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These activities were carried out in the areas of microorganism fermentation, downstream processing, purified media supply (WFI, clean steam, etc) and black media. In addition, risk analyses and parts of the OQ experimental plans for GMP qualification for VTU-Engineering were drawn up.
In order to make sure that deadlines were reliably met, work packages of the general planner (e.g. process engineering functional specifications and automation inspection) were taken over and processed within the time windows with supreme technical expertise and quality being displayed.
A team made up of VTU and Boehringer employees managed to complete the mechanical framework and commission the high-cell-density fermentation facility, including qualification, very efficiently and on time. The fermentation facility was incorporated on schedule on 30.03.2005 into Boehringer Ingelheim Vienna’s production facilities.

The innovative solutions for cooling the high-cell-density fermentation facility are proving to be highly successful – the performance which is required in theory for the “4000 l fermenter” system was exceeded here by approx. 30 %.
During phases of the project where the deadline was critical, up to 10 VTU process engineers were working alongside the general planner, and they worked together with the client to ensure that the final deadline was met.
Work is currently set to continue on the commissioning and qualification of the downstream process section until the end of July 2005 with assistance from VTU.

As well as providing technological know-how, the employees from VTU were also able to demonstrate their ability to work in a team and their project management expertise working in a very heterogeneous planning environment during this project. In all phases, the aim was and remained to ensure that the plant was completed on time, on budget and with the quality that was expected.