Challenges for the Life Sciences and Chemical Industries
Life Sciences include many applications and specialties: biotechnology, fine chemicals, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. This constantly evolving and highly competitive industry is constantly improving its efficiency to meet high demands. Subject to strict regulations, Life Sciences has a strong social and societal stake as long as its innovations lead to the creation of safer, healthier and more sustainable products.
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Life Sciences and Chemistry: meet your performance challenges
Partner of your projects
Control the quality of your projects and save time with an all trades partner. Our experts, specialists in your process, help you to carry out your master plan from design to maintenance. Equans supports you throughout the life cycle of your projects and guarantees reliability, availability of installations as well as optimization of deadlines and overall cost of ownership.
A single point of contact
Power your production lines and ensure their performance through partnership dialogue with Equans:
- Tailor the project to your needs
- Study multiple scenarios
- Validate assumptions at each stage
- Evaluate the overall cost of ownership
- Analyzing the risks
- Defining validation protocols
- Make installations
- Accompany performance ramp-up and maintenance
Cutting-edge expertise for Life Sciences and Chemicals
Tanks and process skid
With Pierre Guérin's offer, you benefit from a wide range of technical solutions adapted to your processes. We offer you our expertise in the fields of sterile and biological forms in tank and skid process environments (Good Manufacturing Practices):
- turnkey processes: design, manufacturing and services (tanks, agitators, process, piping, ...)
- Life Sciences equipment and services: pilot, laboratory and production equipment
Clean rooms
Protecting people and products handled against possible contamination or interactions with non-purified air. You benefit from solutions adapted to your challenges, especially for the production tool that requires a specific control environment. We design and bring clean rooms up to standard by installing, operating and maintaining HVAC equipment, to purify the indoor air and avoid any contamination.
Process fluids
For your production equipment: preparatory and formulation skids, CIP/SIP, decontamination, use of all types of fluids and process utilities.
The Laboratory Sorbonnes
Equans puts its know-how in its Grenoble workshop where Laboratory Fume Hoods are designed and manufactured for Life Sciences and Chemical Industries. With this system of pollutant collection by suction of the laboratory air, you ensure optimal safety of your production sites.
Refrigeration
The answer to your performance and safety challenges in refrigeration, gas compression and liquefaction as well as CO2 recovery and treatment for the Life Sciences and Chemical industries. With our customized solutions in process refrigeration and storage (down to -80°C), you use low carbon refrigerants. Your benefits? Regulatory compliance and energy and environmental performance.
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Low carbon utilities
- Guarantee the availability and quality of your process
- Comply with regulations
- Decrease your energy costs per unit of finished product
- Externalize your utility production risk
- Reduce your carbon footprint
Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 is based on 3 fundamental pillars which are:
- Improving operational performance
- Anticipating risky events
- Optimizing energy and environmental performance
Innovative and sustainable solutions for your Life Science and Chemical activities
Your new single-use bioreactor
As evidenced by the race against time for Covid-19 vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry must be increasingly efficient to get products to market faster. Discover our single-use bioreactor solutions that offer maximum flexibility and responsiveness while maintaining quality and safety standards.
They trusted us
L'Oreal X Equans
Construction of a demineralized water unit and completion of the turnkey installation:
- vats
- pipes
- instrumentation
- automation
- carving
Pierre Fabre X Equans
Installation of a robotic palletizing island for the Pierre Fabre site which includes the extension of pallet conveying and the addition of a destacker.
Thanks to this installation, Equans has drastically increased the site's industrial performance, but also doubled and reduced its logistics flows:
- Palletizing for 6 production lines
- Installation during the 2 week production shutdown
- Output of 16 cartons/minute
Sanofi X Equans
Turnkey offer for the construction of a new facility and multi-technical maintenance of industrial processes and infrastructures.
Construction of a new CO2-based refrigeration production facility (less greenhouse gas emitting) and maintenance of the facilities and the guarantee of site performance.
- 4,500 tons of CO2 equivalent avoided per year
- 15% reduction in energy consumption
- 2.4 MW of cooling capacity
- 1st CO2 high-capacity refrigerant installation in the pharmaceutical industry