The current production plant, located north of Santiago, occupies 23,000 m² of land in which the different stages of manufacturing and distribution of Laboratorios Saval products are performed. The project included 18,000 m² of new facilities.
Our Plant is comprised of two modern buildings where pharmaceuticals of different forms are developed and produced. The first facility, with an area of 14,000 m², is used for the manufacture of solid forms such as: tablets, coated tablets, dispersible tablets, capsules, powder for liquid suspension; Liquid products such as: syrups, suspensions, oral drops; Semisolid Products like: dermatological creams and gels, suppositories and finally injectable and ophthalmic Sterile products. The second building, completely separate from the previous one, comprises 2,000 m² and is dedicated exclusively for the manufacture of solid penicillin products: tablets, coated tablets, dispersible tablets and powder for suspension.
- All Company Quality Control and Research and Development operations are held in a 2,000 m² modern facilities.
- Our facilities´ design are based on modern ISPE / FDA / GMP / OMS / ISO 14644 guidelines, such as:
- Closed manufacturing processes that guarantee no cross contamination and compliance with GMP standards.
- Efficient facility design according to the conditions imposed by ISPE for product process validation and Quality Assurance activities that allow operational space saving taking into consideration gravity-induced vertical and horizontal material flow.
- Modernization of Production Technologies.
- Environmental control throughout the production plant (air conditioning or HVAC) by the use of modern equipment and latest generation computer systems.
- Purified Water (PW), Water for Injection (WFI) and Pure Steam (PS) Generation and Distribution Systems.
- Compressed Air and Nitrogen Generation and Distribution System and other support services.
- Plant Segmentation according to air quality, using WHO classification system (Grade A, Grade B, Grade C and Grade D).
- Administration of all logistics, production and quality activities through SAP/R3 tool, besides the comprehensive use of bar-code technology and Radio Frequency (RF), which ensures the proper storage and further distribution of our products.
Also on adjacent lot, Laboratorios Saval S.A. owns a modern Distribution Center with a total area of 10,000 m² for the execution of all their logistics operations.