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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:
Products;
- Poly vinyl acetate
- Styrene acrylate dispersions
- Urea-formaldehyde resin
- Casein-based adhesives
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.
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
Products: Textile processing chemicals
Total capacity: 4,000 tonnes p.a.
The main features are:
Liquid Blending Kettle, 1.5-ton
Reactor, 5-ton
Concrete Mixer adapted for blending powder sizing compounds
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.
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 Labeller 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.
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 Ultrviolet 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.
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 liightening.
- Microbiology Laboratory recently installed and equipped with a Laminar flow Cabinet VBHL-6 class II Biohazard, Airborne Bacteria Sampler, Autoclaves, Incubators, Oven etc...
- Production of pharmaceuticals
- Research and Development
- Toll manufacturing
- Toll Analysis
- Consultancy services
- Contract production trial
- Regulatory Affairs Procedures & Documentation
- 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.
- 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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