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Pharmaceutical Brushes

Carolina Brush designs, develops and delivers high-quality, high-performing pharmaceutical and FDA grade brushes for environments where cleanliness is critical and hygiene helps saves lives.

Carolina Brush manufactures industrial brushes in all shapes, all sizes, all styles, and all materials, creating a substantial inventory of thousands of brushes to meet your exacting specifications.

Can’t find what you need? Create your own brush. Using a wide variety of filaments and backing materials, Carolina Brush custom-design new brushes or modify existing industrial brushes to make them ideal for your pharmaceutical equipment or instrumentation applications.

Supplying The Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical brushes are used for a variety of pill production functions, including moving, counting and polishing products without breakage or damage. For these operations, Carolina Brush offers:


Twisted in wire brushes

Twisted in wire brushes are made to order in a full range of sizes from miniature to several inches in diameter. Twisted in wire brushes can be manufactured with features including grip handles, wire-loop handles or screw-on threaded pipe nipples depending on the application.

Tube and bottle brushes are available in customizable lengths and diameters, and are created for narrow, barrel-shaped applications. Wire bottle brushes can clean cylindrical items including pipes, bottles, tubes and other industrial components. They also can be used for:

  • Cleaning trachea tubes
  • Cleaning medical instruments
  • Cleaning dental instruments
  • Deburring cross-hole intersections in machined bodies
  • Removing debris and cleaning internal bores on cast part
  • Finishing and polishing small inside diameter holes on machined parts

Staple-Set brushes

Staple-Set brushes are one of the most commonly constructed brushes construction. They can be manufactured in almost any shape. Staple-set brushes are made by inserting a tuft of filament into a hole that is either drilled or molded into a block and secured with a metal staple. Tufted staple-set brushes are typically wood or plastic. They are commonly used to:

  • Cleaning trachea tubes
  • Polish pills
  • Meter pills
  • Move pills, capsules, grains, and granules
  • Count pills
  • Package pills
  • Label pill bottles

    • Delivering the service you want

    Combining a century of industry experience with a dedicated, professional staff and cutting-edge technology, Carolina Brush can manufacture the perfect brush for you. Carolina Brush also offers:

    • Cleaning trachea tubes
    • Application analysis
    • Prototype and sample services
    • Custom design assistance
    • Custom brushes for manufacturing machinery
    • Custom one-of-a-kind tooling