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Every day all of us are faced with the challenge to achieve new goals, to solve new problems and develop new methods and tools.

Only one thing must never change: the determination to reach our targets.

In order to stay ahead of this ever changing world we have to evolve, to strengthen our knowledge, to develop new synergies and relationships, enabling us to give simple and well-built solutions to complex requirements, focused both on technical aspects and on customer’s timelines.

The key to successfully cope with such requirements is our ability to call on the many years of experience within our Company, which have helped us to overcome important challenges in the past, always remembering that your past must not represent a limit to your ability to innovate and design new paths.

Our mission is to combine reliability of tradition with the opportunity for innovation.

This is what we believe in, and practise every day with passion and devotion to our jobs.
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  The History
 
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Since the late 1950s, Brevetti CEA has been manufacturing inspection machines for injectable pharmaceutical products.

 

The company concentrated on the production of semi-automatic machines until 1985. These models were then superseded by fully automated inspection machines which have become the core business of Brevetti CEA.

 

The first automatic inspection machine was the ATM18S for ampoules which was manufactured in 1980 when the availability of first photodiode sensors made it possible to automatically detect particles that contaminate pharmaceutical products.
   
 

The first inspection machine for vials was launched in 1987. The machine vision system was Nucleo, a revolutionary technical approach to inspection methods based on the differential inspection of images (Image subtraction method). This technology has been developed and improved over the years, but still represents the basic rule for all our machines.

 

The first machine for the inspection of pre-filled syringes was manufactured in 1992. This machine had a production capacity of 6.000 pieces per hour.

 

In 2006 the High Speed Camera technology was applied by Brevetti CEA on K15/600 machines inspecting 36.000 syringes per hours. This technology allows to acquire 24 images per each inspection device. By increasing the inspection frequency, the chances to seize defects is consequently increased.

 

This technology enables our machines to get real efficiency values that were believed to be impossible to reach, not only on standard products but also on complexed applications like vaccine and freeze-dried products.

 

Today, there are more that 1.800 inspection machines installed worldwide of which more that 800 fully automated.

To be continued...