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Facilities
Chemical
Factory | Pharmaceutical Factory
Chemical Factory
Resin Plant |
Pigment Preparation Plant | Textile
Auxiliary Plant | Bleach Plant | R&D/Quality
Control Lab. | R&D Personnel
The
Chemical Division, consist of 4 separate sections, each
handling a different set of products:
Resins
Plant Products;
- Poly vinyl acetate
- Styrene acrylate dispersions
- Urea-formaldehyde resin
- Casein-based adhesive
Installed capacity: 10,800 metric tonnes p.a.
The resin plant consists of:
- 2 x 10 ton reactors, equipped with 3 x 25 ton blending
kettles
- 1 x 5 ton reactor, equipped with 2 x 12 ton blending
kettles
Each reactor has a monomer solution kettle attached to
it.
Pigment
Preparation Plant
Products: Water-based pigment dispersions
Installed capacity: 600 metric tonnes p.a.
The pigment preparation plant has the following
equipment:
- turbo-mixer with a volume capacity of 400 litres
- pearl mill
- blending vessels x 3
- sieving machines x 2
- chilling machine
Textile Auxiliary
Plant Products:
Textile processing
chemicals
Total capacity:
4,000 tonnes p.a.
The main features
are:
Bleach
Plant
A modern plant produces chlorine bleach for domestic
use under license from Jeyes International of UK. It is
marketed under the Parozone brand.
The manufacturing facilities comprise:
- a reactor with a batch size of 4,500 litres
- two filling lines with a total capacity of 2.2 million
litres p.a.
The four manufacturing units have a combined work force of
51 persons with a graduate of chemistry/chemical engineering
at the head of each unit.
Research &
Development/Quality Control
Laboratory
NGC maintains an R&D/Quality Control laboratory, equipped with modern research tools for new products
development and quality control tests on raw materials and
finished products.
The laboratory facilities include:
- Brookfield Viscometer (LVT) - dial type
- Hopler (Haake) Viscometer
- Epprecht Viscometer - dial type
- IR/UV Spectrophotometer
- 3/4-necked round-bottom reactor flasks
- Electric rotor stirrer with variable speed heads
- Stober (jumbo DBP) pilot scale reactor
- Electronic weighing balances, and PH-meters
Other equipment for textile testing includes:
- Ahiba Lab
- Dyeing machine
- Linitest machine for sublimation test of dyes
- Manual padding mangle
- Lab stenter machine
- Electric water baths
- Crock meter for rubbing fastness test of dyeings and
prints, etc...
R & D
Personnel (Chemical factory)
Key Personnel:
The R&D section is headed by Mr. Vincent Enon
Efeovbokhan assisted by Mr. Aloysius Onyinye Ezeh.
Mr. Efeovbokhan has a B.Sc. Tech. (Hons) in
Chemical/Petrochemical Technology, and a Master of Engineering
in Chemical Engineering. He possesses the ISO 9000 Quality
Systems Certificate and is also a member of the Nigerian
Society of Engineers.
Developments:
- urea-formaldehyde resin glue
- phenol-formaldehyde resin glue
- powder and liquid degreasers
- casein glue for bottle labels
- perfumed chlorine bleach
- epoxidised soya bean oil
- car body repair putty
- styrene-acrylate resin dispersion for paint manufacture
NGC is on target to achieve the ISO 9000 Certification.
Pharmaceutical FACTORY
Liquid
Production | Demineralised Water
Plant | Solid Dosage Manufacturing Unit |
Quality Assurance | Services |
Capacity | Strengths
In our pharmaceutical factory, based at Otta, we
manufacture a number of high quality pharmaceutical products.
Liquid
Production Facilities
Commissioned in 1999, this facility is equipped with
manufacturing vessels, holding tanks, syrup making vessels of
SS 316 international standard:
- steam jacketed vessel - 2,000 litres
- manufacturing vessels - 3,000 litres & 1,000 litres
- storage tanks - 1 x 3,000 litres & 2 x 1,000 litres
The filling line consists of:
- In-line bottle blower - an automatic container
cleaning machine equipped with a build-in particle collection system.
Output is approximately 75 bottles per
minute. Container size range is up to 800 mm diameter
and 200 mm high.
- Filling station - Six adjustable filling
nozzles make it possible to fill bottles of
different volumes from 20 ml - 200 ml. Output is approximately 60 bottles per minute.
- R.O.P.P Capper CR90 - A single head
roll-on-thread screw capping device which applies caps at
up to 90 bottles per minute.
- Self-Adhesive Labeler and Coding Machine - Fixes
self-adhesive labels of varying sizes on line on
to round bottles of 20 - 200 ml. A changeable
coding device contains characters for printing batch numbers, manufacturing and expiry dates.
Demineralised
Water Plant
The Pharma Plant has a central borehole of about 150ft
(42m) deep providing potable water for the plant after a
series of treatments.
A deionising plant provides
processed water for pharmaceutical manufacturing that meets
international standard.
Disinfection is by Ultraviolet light. Energy from UV lamp (source) to organisms (cellular material)
which can result in death.
Solid Dosage Manufacturing Unit
Facility for the production of granules, tablets and
caplets.
The facilities include:
- mixers, granulators and sieving devices of SS 316
international standard.
- two Glatt fluidized bed driers with electronic temperature
control devices with other dust-proof components.
- two Fette Perfecta 2000 tablet compression machines
capable of producing tablets of varying sizes and shapes.
- the packaging section is equipped with an Uhlmann
stripping machine and 4 Uhlmann blistering machines.
Quality Assurance
The Quality Assurance Department is endowed with the latest
in technology & equipment, allowing both chemical and
microbiological analysis within the shortest time with a high
degree of precision and accuracy.
Equipment includes:
- Waters 712 WSP HPLC with Absorbance Detector.
- Millennium High Performance Liquid Chomatography (HPLC)
comprising of:
- M600 Quartenary Gradient Solvent Delivery
- M717 Plus Auto sampler
- M996 Photodiode Array Detector
- Millennium 2010 Chromatography Manager
- Solvent Degasser Module 4 channels
- Computer with printer
- UNICAM 5625 UV/VIS Spectrophotometer with two Erweka
DT6R Dissolution Rate Tester
- Firlabo Stability chamber with digital control of R.H.,
Temperature and lightening.
- Microbiology Laboratory recently installed and equipped
with a Laminar flow Cabinet VBHL-6 class II Biohazard,
Airborne Bacteria Sampler, Autoclaves, Incubators, Oven
etc...
Services
- Production of pharmaceuticals
- Research and Development
- Toll manufacturing
- Toll Analysis
- Consultancy services
- Contract production trial
- Regulatory Affairs Procedures & Documentation
Capacity
- 750 million tablets per annum
- 10 million bottles of liquid per annum
R & D Personnel
(Pharmaceutical factory)
Key Personnel:
The pharmaceutical factories Research and Development section
is co-ordinated by Mr. S. O. Ajiboye, who has a B.Sc. in Biochemstry and an
M.Sc. Pharm.Chem. and Mr. I. A. Oyegunju who holds a B.Pharm and M.
pharm.
Strengths
- Suitably located in Otta, with easy accessibility to
Lagos and its nationwide distribution network
- One of West Africa's leading production facilities
- Good corporate relations with the pharmaceutical
industry and regulatory bodies
- Written Good Documentation Practices
- Ready adaptability to GMP
- Adequate warehousing facilities for own and contract
materials and products, including ample cold storage
- Modern and adequate communication system
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