Analytical Reporter January/ February 2022

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HIGHLIGHTS Verder Pumps partner with ProProcess on Anglo American project Verder Pumps South Africa, a market leader in advanced industrial pumping solutions, has been selected as one of the preferred pump suppliers for Anglo American Platinum’s new Modular Fines Flotation Pilot Plant, and supplied 16 pumps for various applications within the mobilised plant. In August 2020, the modular process plant supplier ProProcess was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for Anglo American Platinum’s new Modular Fines Flotation Pilot Plant. As a preferred Anglo American vendor, Verder supplied peristaltic pumps to ProProcess on the project. This test facility for platinum concentrate flow-sheet optimisation had to be designed with maximum road transportability in mind, as it is earmarked to be moved around various concentrator sites owned by Anglo. To this end, the entire plant was fitted onto 16 roadtransportable ISO frame skids conforming to 40-foot marine container dimensions. The plant consists of more than 40 flotation cells (including a high-intensity flotation cell), a mill, approximately 30 tanks (some agitated), approximately 50

pumps (including centrifugal slurry, peristaltic, and vertical spindle), blowers, compressors, and other items. Verderflex peristaltic pumps are manufactured in the EU within ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 18001 accredited facilities. The Verderflex positive displacement pumps are used with a large variety of fluids. The liquid is totally contained within a flexible hose or tube fitted inside the pump casing. The pumps selected on this project included the Verderflex VF65, Dura 25, Dura 35 and Dura 45. The Verder team not only provided fitfor-purpose pumping solutions for the plant but assisted in evaluating the pump head resulting from the impulse losses generated by peristaltic pumps. Overall, the impression of ProProcess and Verder working together on the project was a positive one. “Over the last two decades of operating in South Africa, the Verder brand and its solutions have earned a reputation of excellence; for providing advanced, costeffective, efficient and long-lasting pumping solutions. We were very excited to be chosen as a preferred pump supplier

for this project as the use case application is a testament to the capability of our solutions - even in some of the toughest industrial and operating environments,” says Darryl Macdougall, Managing Director, Verder Pumps South Africa.

VERDER PUMPS SOUTH AFRICA Kirstin Adam kirstin.adam@verder.co.za www.verder.co.za

LABOTEC AWARDED THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC BIOPRODUCTION AGENCY FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA Labotec is proud to announce a partnership with world leaders Thermo Fisher Scientific as trusted distributors of their Bioproduction portfolio for Southern Africa. Labotec and ThermoFisher Scientific are able to provide an open-architecture solution through single-use (SU) bioproduction technologies and consumables for research and development for biotherapeutic producers in pharmaceutical products such as vaccines, monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), adjuvants, personalised medicine, and others.

this field locally, the alliance is resolute in supporting the local market’s need for high-quality products, a stable supply chain and robust risk mitigation strategies for both up- and down-scale processes. Bioprocessing by Design Bioprocessing by design is emphasised by Thermo Fisher Scientific to drive

Synergies for Success Through Thermo Fisher Scientific’s worldwide manufacturing network, which is present in more than 100 countries on six continents and equipped with state-of-theart ISO 9001:2015 certified facilities that meet rigorous quality standards, combined with Labotec’s decades of experience in

performance through collaboration with clients to deliver optimal customised solutions by integrating existing resources, understanding challenges, improving upor down-scaling processes, and enhancing speed and quality. At the same time, the biotherapeutic market is rapidly adopting single-use bioprocessing technologies due to efficiency in mitigating and reducing risk to improve operational efficiencies. This robust and scalable architecture from lab/ scale-up to cGMP production uses several single-use products; such as bioreactors, tangential-flow filtration devices, depth filters, disposable filter cartridges, bioprocess containers, and mixing systems for upstream as well as downstream processing. Factors that boost the growth of single-use bioprocessing in today’s market include increase in demand for biopharmaceuticals, validation pressures, rise in adoption of disposable technologies, low risk of product cross-

contamination attributed to SUB technologies, and less floor space requirement. Vaccine development for SARS-CoV-2 Even before the current global pandemic, Thermo Fisher Scientific has been at the forefront in vaccine development through their single-use bioproduction technologies and the associated bioprocessing consumables. With vaccine development now in the spotlight of scientific and medical research, Labotec and Thermo Fisher Scientific can provide an openarchitecture solution to those in vaccine research and development. LABOTEC (PTY) LTD JHB: (011) 315 5434 CPT: (021) 531 7660 DBN: (031) 566 4870 Fax: (011) 315 5882 sales@labotec.co.za www.labotec.co.za

Fritsch ‘Made in Germany’ excellence award for sample preparation instruments Fritsch has just received an Excellence award for 2021 from DDW - Die Deutsche Wirtschaft as one of the efficient and reliable German companies in trend and growth markets. They are locally supported by Labotec, who supply their product ranges for sample sizing, milling, dividing, sieving laboratory equipment commonly used for sample preparation in industry and research. This, Frtisch say, they achieve through the innovative ideas of the internal development department inspired by the close exchange with customers and their practical work in the laboratory. This high

level of innovation is one of the reasons for the award now received. DDW - Die Deutsche Wirtschaft identified 3 000 German companies active in promising future fields from all company and sales sizes and weighted them according to importance. The evaluation took into account 28 different criteria. This included turnover, number of employees and more specific factors, such as the number of patents and certifications and the training offered. With over 253 scoring points, FRITSCH was awarded the title ‘Excellence Made in Germany’ in trend and growth markets in the industry segment.

LABOTEC (PTY) LTD JHB: (011) 315 5434 CPT: (021) 531 7660 DBN: (031) 566 4870 Fax: (011) 315 5882 sales@labotec.co.za www.labotec.co.za

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