Equipment

Ross, Charles & Son’s Laboratory Paddle Blender offers advanced features for automated powder blending and liquid spraying operation with recipe management.

At CPhI Worldwide 2018, Tom Wilson, vice president of Contract Manufacturing Operations for Pfizer Global Supply and Pfizer CentreOne Contract Manufacturing, will discuss best practices for meeting manufacturing challenges of compliance as requirements shift.

The new bioLIVE event, launching this year with CPhI Worldwide 2018, will explore innovation in bioprocessing and manufacturing with a focus on the roles of innovative methods and technology for biopharma continuous manufacturing.

Innovative technologies, such as drug-loaded devices and 3D printing, enable advances in implantable devices and other novel dosage forms.

A twin-screw extruder can be used as a continuous wet granulator.

Idifarma, a Spanish contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that specialises in niche and highly potent products, confirmed on Oct. 1, 2018 that its good manufacturing practice (GMP) spray drying technology for highly potent drugs is now operational.

Flexicon’s new range of stainless steel connection boxes are suited for applications requiring high levels of hygiene and ingress protection.

A new Low-Profile, Flo-Thru Sanitary Screener from Kason scalps oversize particles and foreign matter from dry bulk materials and solids-laden slurries at high rates in low headroom areas.

Ross, Charles & Son added a custom 150-gallon Triple Shaft Mixer, the Ross VersaMix Model VMC-150, with elaborate automation and safety functions.

The companies partnered to build a 500-L single-use pilot-scale plant for biologics production.

A collaboration using Pall’s bioprocessing technology in G-CON’s PODs enables flexible continuous bioprocessing and viral vector facility solutions.

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

FDA awarded nearly $3 million in grants for continuous manufacturing and other advanced manufacturing technologies as part of the agency’s efforts to ensure a robust and reliable supply of biological products.

The CHF 400-million (US$416-million) investment in Lonza's biopark in Visp, Switzerland, will expand Ibex Solutions with two new offerings, drug substance development and drug substance and drug product manufacturing.

The biopharmaceutical company will invest approximately $800 million to expand facilities and manufacturing capacity at its campus in Rensselaer County, NY.

3D printing is being explored as a manufacturing method for on-demand, personalized medicine.

Coperion’s ZSK 18 MEGAlab extruder fulfills requirements for both wet extrusion and hot-melt extrusion pharmaceutical processes.

The new features on the purifier deliver additional sizes and sterilization/sanitization compatibility.

Bio-Rad introduces CHT Ceramic Hydroxyapatite XT media and Nuvia HP-Q resin resin for process protein purification.

De Lama’s DLVHP/DE pass-box decontamination unit uses vacuum hydrogen peroxide sterilization.

Lonza’s new PyroTec Pro Robotic Solution provides a fully automated workflow for endotoxin detection.

The company is increasing manufacturing capacity at its Copenhagen, Denmark facility with the addition of six new bioreactors.

A collaboration integrates Sartorius Stedim Biotech’s BIOSTAT STR bioreactors and Repligen’s XCell ATF cell-retention control technology to create simplified, scalable equipment for intensified cell culture.

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group added a new actuator suitable for applications where reduced weight is a concern.

groninger and SKAN have collaborated to develop Integra, a production line concept that integrates both an isolator and filling machine for vials with a large capacity range.

Ross, Charles & Son’s new mixing and discharging turnkey system is capable of extruding finished product into strands.

The SciLog SciPure FD System from Parker Bioscience is an automated single-use system for the filtration and dispensing of products into either bottles or bags.

This article focuses on applying new and traditional techniques to design a cleaning process, ensure the surfaces are clean, and develop rinse solution analysis to continuously monitor cleaning performance.

Single-use technologies, modular systems, and robots are on the rise.

Automated robotic arms manipulate nested trays and containers inside closed aseptic filling systems.