LABORATORIOS SAVAL

Manufacturing Site

Laboratorios Saval S.A. has modern production facilities that meet the most highest sanitary standards thanks to an ambitious modernization project, which is already completed.

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.