Equipment

Ross Charles’ 300-gallon process vessel is suitable for 5-psi internal pressure at 300 °F and is agitated by a disperser blade driven to 1150 rpm by a 75HP explosion-proof motor.

The ÄKTA pilot 600 from GE Healthcare is a lightweight bench-top chromatography system suited to streamline both GMP and non-GMP everyday operations.

Endress+Hauser’s Field Xpert SMT70 is a tablet PC suited for commissioning and maintaining field instruments in hazardous and non-hazardous locations.

Leistritz has added a continuous twin screw extrusion system that continuously mixes and conditions gel-mass formulations designed to replace previous upstream batch processing methodologies.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers combine two microscope technologies to create sharper, faster images.

The new kit is expected to detect a broad spectrum of pyrogens while offering high reproducibility and sensitivity as well as eliminating the need for live animal testing.

Bosch Packaging Technology will introduce its newest R&D device for continuous oral solid dosage production at Achema 2018.

The company’s new UV-1900 UV-VIS spectrophotometer incorporates features that improve usability, regulatory compliance, and performance.

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

The updated version of Schubert-Pharma’s Flowmodul unit for packing units into flowpacks features cleanability.

Bosch Packaging Technology will present its new modular freeze dryer at Achema 2018.

This marks the third FDA approval for the company’s second biomanufacturing plant in Incheon, Korea.

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik has added compact continuous agglomeration equipment and new control systems to its "modular plant engineering" portfolio.

Optima will also display the freeze dryer CS and the sterility test isolator STISO at the show.

The gene therapy company is expected to invest $55 million in a new manufacturing facility that will produce therapies for rare neurological genetic diseases.

The sterility test isolator (STISO) for testing aseptically filled drug products and for testing toxic aseptic drugs (STISOtox) from Metall+Plastic, a subsidiary of Optima, are modular and ergonomically designed.

GEA and Perceptive Engineering will collaborate to promote and deploy multivariate monitoring and advanced process control (APC) solutions for batch and continuous pharmaceutical process units.

In adding a Vanrx Pharmasystems aseptic filling isolator, FUJIFILM adds fill/finish for gene therapies and viral vaccines.

Netzsch will present a new compact grinding/separating system, LabCompactPlus, for chemical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic laboratories at Achema 2018.

Parker Bioscience will expand laboratory, cleanroom, office, and warehouse facilities at its Birtley, UK manufacturing site.

Innovations in fill/finish equipment and in solid-dosage moisture-control packaging technologies were on display at INTERPHEX 2018.

As more continuous processes move toward commercialization, users and equipment vendors are working to speed changeovers and address other needs.

Recent technological advances help streamline the fill/finish manufacturing process.

Huber Kältemaschinenbau presents new temperature control solutions for research, laboratories, and production in Frankfurt.

The tablet tooling manufacturer will showcase its products and services, which include an online training package and a tool management system for proactive monitoring of tooling rotations, inventory, and maintenance.

L.B. Bohle’s QbCon 1 laboratory-scale, continuous twin-screw granulator and dryer offers fully continuous drying for R&D in continuous solid-dosage manufacturing.

A new facility will allow Fette Compacting to double its production capacity for tablet presses in Nanjing, China.

Herma’s new label removal unit reduces the time for discharging misprinted labels by more than half.

GE Healthcare’s new Sefia S-2000 cell processing system allows operators to conduct multiple cell therapy manufacturing steps with one instrument.

Romaco will display the IHD series for processing hot melt coatings at Achema 2018.