Equipment

The company is certified as a manufacturer of pressure vessels and components for use in China.

The new Testa Center in Uppsala, Sweden is a collaborative test bed offering biotechnology equipment from GE Healthcare for process development.

A twin-screw extruder can be used as a continuous wet granulator or as a continuous mixer for a wet gelatin mass.

Leistritz’s Twin Screw Extrusion Workshop, taking place Nov. 28–29, 2018 in Clifton and Somerville, NJ, will feature classroom sessions and extrusion demonstrations.

A process control system based on PAT can compensate for variations in particle size, resulting in more consistent coating thickness in a Wurster coating process.

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

Increasing dwell time can improve tablet production.

Modular manufacturing systems offer a less costly way to increase capacity while reducing time-to-market.

CMOs have been active over the past year in expanding their biologics production and capabilities.

Why shouldn’t biopharmaceutical manufacturers be able to leverage standardized construction practices to improve time to market?

Waters’ acquisition of Prosolia’s DESI technology boosts its mass spectrometry imaging portfolio.

Fette Compacting’s FEC20 capsule filler for medium-sized batches is a smaller version of its FEC40 machine.

The agency has issued a warning letter for cGMP violations at a drug manufacturing facility in Ahmedabad, India, that Baxter gained through its acquisition of Claris Injectables.

The media, by Tosoh Bioscience, is composed of calcium and phosphate buffers and offers mixed-mode properties for biomolecule purification.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s GKF 720 capsule filling machine for small batches of hard capsules uses a fully automated, washable containment process.

Traditional glass and polymeric materials compete for market share in primary packaging for parenteral drug products.

The acquisition of Flex Concepts adds custom, single-use products to Entegris’ single-use bag product line.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s mass spectrometer combines mass-analyzer technology with an intelligent data acquisition strategy.

The company’s new LCMS-9030 system is designed for high resolution and accurate mass detection.

The company unveiled its latest innovations to its mass spectrometry portfolio at ASMS in San Diego.

The PowerMix Model PDM-10 from Ross, Charles & Son offers high-shear mixing for hard-to-mix applications with low flowability.

The BIOne 1250 bioprocess control station from Distek is a benchtop-scale bioreactor for mammalian and microbial models.

The author reviews current approaches to sterile containment and compares several sealed transfer and barrier techniques, including isolators, restricted access barrier systems, and split butterfly valve technology.

Traditional barriers between upstream and downstream bioprocessing are slowly starting to break down, as biopharma embraces more advanced analytics and process control.

The new resin used a combination of “jetting” technology and a high-performance Protein A ligand.

The company’s next-generation ultraperformance liquid chromatography platform is designed to meet the evolving laboratory requirements for chromatographic performance.

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

The acquisition expands Micromeritics’ portfolio of products and solutions.

The India Expo Mart in Delhi will host CPhI and P-MEC India with expected attendance of 50,000.

The company will provide the first FlexFactory manufacturing platform for cell therapy manufacturing.