MECO Completes Start Up At One of the World’s Largest Water For Injection (WFI) Production Plants
MECO recently completed the installation and start up of multiple vapor compression plants at B. Braun Medical Inc.’s Irvine, CA production facility, which is one of the world’s largest WFI production plants.
MECO produces the largest biopharmaceutical distillers used for WFI production in the world and its vapor compression process is the most efficient means of distilling water for WFI production. The system is pretreated with softening agents and carbon filtration minimizes wastewater and overall operating costs.
B. Braun supplies the global healthcare market with products for anesthesia, infusion therapy, intensive care medicine, cardiology, extra corporal blood treatment and surgery, serving hospitals, ambulatory surgical care centers, general practitioners and the homecare market. The company employs over 39,000 employees in 50 countries.
MECO is a manufacturer of engineered products for water purification serving multiple industries. It produces the broadest range of products available in the biopharmaceutical market for the production of WFI and USP Purified Water. The technologies include filtration, reverse osmosis, electro deionization, multiple effect distillation, vapor compression distillation and pure steam generators. The company designs and constructs complete water systems utilizing these technologies for its biopharmaceutical customers. MECO is the world’s leading producer of water purification plants for the offshore oil and gas platforms as well as a critical supplier to the U.S. Government and armed forces.