Medicine PVC Packing Film Cleanroom Project

This is a very wonderful cross-border trade negotiation. Both sides reached an agreement and drafted the contract after determining the technical requirements. This transnational negotiation also laid the foundation for the future Uzbekistan market development.

Project Key Challenge

Industry: Pharmaceutical PVC packaging films are in direct contact with pharmaceutical products, so they have strict requirements on the cleanliness of the production environment. Core production equipment needs to reach ISO Class 5 cleanliness level to avoid dust and pollutants affecting product quality; clean room construction needs to balance professionalism and economy to avoid cost waste caused by excessive investment; the design of production area aisles needs to adapt to material transportation to ensure production efficiency; personnel must undergo strict decontamination before entering the clean room to prevent man-made pollution and ensure product compliance.

Customer: As the main local supplier of pharmaceutical packaging materials, the customer needs to improve product competitiveness through clean room construction. The core demand is to make some equipment areas reach ISO Class 5 cleanliness level on the premise of cost saving; the production aisles are narrow, and traditional revolving doors cannot adapt to material transportation, so it is necessary to find a suitable alternative door; professional air showers are required to ensure the effect of personnel decontamination; as a cross-border cooperation project, it is necessary to reach a consensus through efficient negotiations and lay a foundation for subsequent market expansion in Uzbekistan.

SZ-PHARMA Customized Solutions

Core Design Idea: Based on the customer's production needs of pharmaceutical PVC packaging films, cost control goals and cross-border cooperation characteristics, combined with Uzbekistan's pharmaceutical packaging industry specifications, focus on building a 1000-square-meter adaptive clean room. Through customized local laminar flow hood design, realize ISO Class 5 local cleanliness needs on the premise of cost saving; configure automatic sliding doors suitable for narrow aisles to ensure smooth material transportation; equip professional air showers to standardize the personnel decontamination process; reach cooperation through efficient cross-border negotiations, sign formal contracts, balance project quality, cost and market layout needs, and ensure the project is successfully completed in 2014-2015.

Implementation Details:

1. Efficient Cross-border Negotiations and Contract Signing: Set up a professional negotiation team to conduct cross-border trade negotiations with the customer, fully communicate core matters such as project technical requirements, cost budgets and construction cycles, and after reaching an agreement, jointly draft and sign a formal contract to clarify the rights and obligations of both parties, lay a foundation for the smooth progress of the project, and accumulate cooperation experience for subsequent market expansion in Uzbekistan.

2. Overall Design and Construction of the Clean Room: Combine the production characteristics of pharmaceutical PVC packaging films and the 1000-square-meter site scale to conduct the overall design of the clean room, reasonably divide the production area, aisle area and auxiliary area to ensure that the layout is in line with the production process; strictly follow the relevant specifications of Uzbekistan's pharmaceutical packaging industry, select suitable clean materials to ensure that the overall cleanliness of the clean room meets the standards, balancing practicality and economy.

3. Local Cleanliness Optimization (Cost Control Plan): In response to the customer's core demand of "some equipment needs to reach ISO Class 5 cleanliness level and save costs", abandon the high-cost plan of building an overall ISO Class 5 clean room, customize and design local laminar flow hoods to accurately cover the core production equipment area, so that the cleanliness of the local space reaches the ISO Class 5 standard, and control the project cost within the budget of USD 225,000 while meeting the production needs.

4. Optimization of Narrow Aisle Passage and Material Transportation: In response to the problem of narrow production aisles, select automatic sliding doors instead of traditional revolving doors. The door leaves can be fully opened automatically to avoid the door leaves hindering material transportation; equipped with an electronic monitoring system to prevent accidental closure of the door leaves, ensure the safety of personnel and material passage, and improve production efficiency.

5. Configuration of Personnel Decontamination System: Equip professional air showers at the entrance of the clean room, formulate strict personnel entry procedures, ensure that personnel remove dust and dirt particles from their bodies through the air shower before entering the clean room, minimize man-made pollution, and ensure the quality of pharmaceutical PVC packaging film products.

6. Construction Quality and Schedule Control: Formulate a detailed construction plan, promote the clean room construction, laminar flow hood installation, automatic sliding door and air shower configuration in phases, strengthen on-site construction monitoring to ensure that the construction quality of each link meets the standards; reasonably allocate human and material resources to ensure that the project is completed on time within the 2014-2015 execution cycle without delaying the customer's production plan.

Compliance Adaptation: Fully follow the relevant specifications of Uzbekistan's pharmaceutical packaging industry, combine the hygiene and safety requirements of pharmaceutical PVC packaging film production, ensure that all links such as clean room design, local laminar flow hood configuration, air shower and automatic sliding door installation comply with local compliance standards, ensure that the produced pharmaceutical PVC packaging films meet industry quality requirements, and ensure that the products are legally and compliantly put on the market.

Customer demand:

Meeting Core Indicators

Project Scale and Clean Room Indicators: The 1000-square-meter clean room was completed as required, with a reasonable layout and in line with the production process of pharmaceutical PVC packaging films; through the design of local laminar flow hoods, the cleanliness of the core production equipment area reached the ISO Class 5 standard, meeting the customer's production needs; automatic sliding doors and air showers were installed in place, running stably, adapting to the use of narrow aisles and personnel decontamination needs.

Supporting Indicators: The cross-border negotiations were successfully completed, and the contract was signed in a standardized manner, laying a foundation for subsequent market expansion in Uzbekistan; the project was successfully completed within the 2014-2015 execution cycle and delivered on time for use; the clean room ran stably, with a product contamination rate of 0, ensuring that the quality of pharmaceutical PVC packaging films met the standards.

Compliance Aspect: The project fully complies with the relevant specifications of Uzbekistan's pharmaceutical packaging industry, and all indicators and equipment configurations of the clean room meet the industry standards, successfully passing the local compliance acceptance, ensuring that the customer's production of pharmaceutical PVC packaging films is legal and compliant, and further consolidating the customer's position as the main local supplier of pharmaceutical packaging materials.

Usage Aspect: The 1000-square-meter clean room meets the customer's large-scale production needs; the local laminar flow hood plan not only achieves the ISO Class 5 cleanliness requirement, but also effectively controls costs and improves project cost performance; the automatic sliding door solves the problem of material transportation in narrow aisles, and the air shower ensures the effect of personnel decontamination, greatly improving production efficiency and product quality; the smooth progress of cross-border cooperation has laid a solid foundation for the long-term cooperation and market expansion between the customer and us.

Achieving Customer Demands

The project was successfully delivered on time within the 2014-2015 execution cycle, and all indicators met the customer's needs and industry specifications. The customer was very satisfied with the cost control plan of the local laminar flow hood and the adaptability of the automatic sliding door and air shower, and highly recognized the efficiency of cross-border negotiations and the project construction quality. This cooperation not only solved the customer's core production pain points, but also laid a foundation for us to expand the Uzbekistan pharmaceutical packaging industry market, and both parties reached a long-term cooperation intention.

Core Project Highlights

1. Precise Cost Control and Demand Adaptation: Abandon the high-cost plan of building an overall ISO Class 5 clean room, customize the design of local laminar flow hoods while meeting the cleanliness needs of core equipment, achieve a perfect balance between economy and practicality, and accurately solve the customer's core pain points of "cost control + high cleanliness demand".

2. Detail Optimization to Improve Production Efficiency: For narrow production aisles, select automatic sliding doors instead of revolving doors, with electronic monitoring to ensure passage safety, solving the problem of material transportation obstruction; equip professional air showers to standardize the personnel decontamination process, ensuring product quality and production efficiency from the details.

3. Cross-border Cooperation Lays the Foundation for Market Expansion: Reach cooperation through efficient cross-border trade negotiations and sign standardized contracts, not only successfully complete the project delivery, but also accumulate cooperation experience for subsequent expansion of the Uzbekistan pharmaceutical packaging industry market, achieving dual improvement of project value and market value.

As a Packing film factory, there are some equipments should be high clean grade ISO5. In order to save the cost, we designed a local laminar flow hood to make

the cleanliness of local space reach ISO 5 standard.

In narrow production aisles, automatic sliding doors are the ideal alternative to revolving doors. The door leaves automatically open to their full width and materials can be transported without the leaves getting in the way. The door leaves are electronically monitored to prevent unwanted closure. 

Air shower are specialized area through which personnel must pass before entering cleanrooms in order to avoid contamination. Decontamination is done by clearing off dust and dirt particles from bodies of cleanroom personnel to minimize contamination of equipment or products.