Parker Bioscience Filtration boosts production capacity with new ultrasonic pleat welding system

"Telsonic UK were awarded this latest contract on the basis of the excellent performance of the existing machines over the last 18 years both in control and reliability."

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Parker Bioscience Filtration has invested in a new Pleat Welding System from Telsonic UK. The move aims to support the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturer’s recent product expansion and to further increase the company’s production capacity.

Key information:

  • Parker Bioscience Filtration invests in a new Pleat Welding System from Telsonic.
  • The new system will hopefully help Parker with its product expansion, while also further increasing its production capacity.
  • The pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturer chose to purchase more equipment from Telsonic after 18 years of experiencing "excellent performance" with other machinery from the company.

Parker has purchased Telsonic’s USP3000E pleat welding machine, which will complement Parker’s existing suite of Telsonic machines that the company has been using for over 18 years.

According to Parker, Telsonic was awarded this contract based on “the excellent performance of the existing machines over the last 18 years both in control and reliability.” Additionally, the ease of loading that operators have experienced whilst utilising Telsonic’s slide on future design is beneficial with the difficult-to-handle product. 

Key specs of the Telsonic USP3000E pleat welding system:

  • 20kHz MAG 3.6kW generator.
  • Colour touchscreen for both intuitive set-up and displaying results.
  • Mounted within a stand-alone framework, incorporating fixed guarding and Keyence Light Guarders for operator access.
  • TelsoFlex system enables the storage of multiple weld recipes including pressure profiling, amplitude ramping, distance-absolute, P-max plus energy and time.
  • The QC booster mount allows for the quick changeover of the ultrasonic sonotrodes combined with Telsonic’s quick load/unload pleat auto rise and lower fixture. This allows for the exact and repeatable presentation of filter pleats under an ultrasonic head.

Telsonic’s design of the sonotrode and anvil configuration claims to ensure strong welds without fracturing the very delicate and layered pleat filter components. In addition, the new fixture has also received an upgrade that aims to allow it to be fully adjustable and take a greater thickness range of Parker’s pleated filters. This new upgrade should also weld new materials which may require increased welding forces. 

Following laboratory trials at Telsonic’s UK facility, the USP3000E machine passed the test regarding extended use for Parker's new material range.