Product Safety

Improving Product Safety

for the Pharmaceutical Industry

As your thermal utility partner, Armstrong understands your industry's regulations and guidelines for safety and sanitation.

We solve your problems and prevent them in ways no one else can with a vast array of products, technology, programs, services and online education—all designed to help you increase the safety of your products.

  • Automatic steam quality monitoring that continuously measures and communicates the dryness fraction of steam

    • Steam QM®-1  

      Quicker and consistently more reliable and accurate than manual methods, Armstrong's Steam QM®-1 automatically detects the dryness fraction of steam and provides continuous steam quality measurement data trending over time.

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    • Steam QM®-3  

      Easily and efficiently measure the quality of steam used for sterile applications with Steam QM®-3. Our automatic steam quality monitor determines and communicates steam moisture content, the amount of superheat present, and the concentration of non-condensable gases in steam.

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  • Steam filters to remove impurities

    • Steam Filters  

      Armstrong’s industrial stainless steam filters are designed for filtering steam to yield low differential pressure at high flow rates. Suitable for process steam and culinary steam applications in the pharmaceutical industry.

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  • Hot water systems complete with instantaneous hot water generation and digital temperature control

    • ReadiTemp™ Instantaneous Water Heater  

      ReadiTemp™ is Armstrong's revolutionary series of standard and application-customized steam/water instantaneous water heaters for any process application requiring very specific temperatures as high as 212°F (100°C). Our advanced hot water system combines digital control technology and instantaneous shell and tube heat exchanger design to meet higher set point temperature process applications, such as closed loop vessel jacket heating and centralized plant sanitation.

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    • Emech® Digital Control Valves  

      Emech® delivers and maintains water at precisely the desired temperature (+/-1°F, +/-0.5°C)—hot or chilled—immediately on demand. It ensures a consistent supply of water at the precision temperatures required for a variety of applications. Compared to traditional systems, Emech® offers a superior performance for speed, precision and reduced mechanical wear.

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    • Emech® Industrial Mixing Centers  

      The Emech® digital control valve is pre-piped as an industrial mixing center with all the requisite installation components for compact design and ease of installation. Advantages include consistent temperature accuracy, enhanced operational efficiency and reduced maintenance.

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  • Stainless Steel Trap Valve Stations and Clean Steam Thermostatic Steam Traps

    • TVS 4000 Series Stainless Steel Trap Valve Station   

      Advantages include: reduced costs; easy, in-line repairability with maximum safety; simplified trap testing; installation versatility; multiple functions; reduced design time; and three-year guarantee. Compatible with inverted bucket, disc, thermostatic, thermostatic wafer, bimetallic, float and thermostatic, and two-bolt steam traps from other manufacturers.

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    • TC Series Clean Steam Thermostatic Steam Traps  

      Armstrong offers a complete range of TC Series traps to handle the special requirements of clean steam systems. Different body configurations are available for choice of piping and ease of cleaning. TC Series traps are constructed from 316L stainless steel for corrosion resistance and are highly polished for cleanability.

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EXPERT OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SERVICES

Our record speaks for itself.

Armstrong's O&M sites have achieved 99.9+% utility reliability, with 0 recordable instances of safety issues in 2017. Our employees adhere to OSHA 1910 and 1926 for operational and construction safety, and we comply with all applicable environmental regulations.

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Recommendations from Armstrong University

    • Water Hammer  

      This course will discuss the basic mechanics of water hammer and help you identify conditions under which it may occur; it will also explain how to apply preventative solutions to avoid the occurrence of water hammer.

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    • Safety Training 101 Package  

      This package of 21 courses addresses environmental health and safety issues to help you provide a safe working environment. Each course can typically be completed in 30 minutes or less.

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Case Study

    • ELIMINATING WATER HAMMER FOR A MAJOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IN EUROPE   

      Three-week study utilizing Armstrong's proprietary monitoring equipment determines severity, location and cause of water hammer problem for a major pharmaceutical company. Using this data, Armstrong provides a system solution that includes a complete turnkey installation of a custom-designed flash tank able to separate the flash steam causing water hammer from the cooler condensate.

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