Equipment

The company will invest EUR 325 million (US$389 million) in a new biomanufacturing facility in Ireland using single-use bioreactors.

The MagMixer MBE Series from SPX Flow is suitable for low-viscosity blending, dissolving solids, and solid suspension in sterile applications.

Updated guidelines and new technologies aid visual inspection of parenteral products and packaging.

The event, taking place on June 6–7, 2018 in Clinton and Somerville, NJ, will focus on the latest melt extrusion and granulation technologies for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products.

The company will showcase its drum-filling technology among other products and services at the upcoming ACHEMA 2018 event in Frankfurt, Germany.

The new platform is expected to speed up cell line development.

The company unveiled three new products to support single-use biomanufacturing and won an award for best technological innovation at INTERPHEX 2018.

INTERPHEX presents advances in pharmaceutical container filling, robotic handling, and serialization.

The company is launching a new pre-fabricated, ready-to-run manufacturing facility that is expected to significantly decrease the production timeline for viral vector-based therapeutics.

Honeywell’s Experion Batch visualization technology provides operators with improved visibility, simplified maintenance, and faster validation.

New filling and inspection machines and new containers and closures for injectable drugs will be on display at INTERPHEX 2018.

The biopharmaceutical firm has chosen Rhode Island as the site of its next-generation biomanufacturing plant, which will offer flexibility, speed, and efficiency.

The new 300,000-square-foot facility is considered the largest dedicated cell and gene therapy manufacturing facility with fully integrated services.

Fujifilm acquires cell culture media companies Irvine Scientific Sales Company and IS Japan.

Ross Systems and Controls (SysCon) touchscreen purged panels have been certified under the standards of Underwriters Laboratories’ (UL)-698A Code and the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA)-496 Code.

Equipment and product innovations improve pharmaceutical manufacturing tasks.

The company’s close communication with customers has enabled it to bring advanced pipetting products to market.

Natoli acquired Carlisle Precision Machining, which supplies replacement parts for encapsulation equipment.

The QF10k pump from Quattroflow is a positive-displacement quaternary diaphragm pump with a patent-pending chamber design.

The Visiocover from GEA is a transparent sanitary cover for visual inspection of and process access to non-sticky-powder processes.

Telstar reports that its Boreas, a new 86° ultra-low-temperature freezer, increases average performance by 20%.

Cleanroom floor and wall solutions from Sika meet rigorous standards for pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.

The company plans to install 4000-L disposable bioreactors from ABEC at its new commercial manufacturing facility in Wuxi city, China.

Process analytical technology and advanced process control strategies can be applied to either batch or continuous manufacturing of solid-dosage drugs.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech has launched a new automated parallel bioreactor system for perfusion culture.

Sartorius has delivered to ABL’s Strasbourg facility, a GMP viral vector manufacturing package solution that includes single-use bioreactors and an automation platform for normal flow filtration, tangential filtration, and mixing.

The contract development and manufacturing organization has expanded biologics capacity at its facility in Berkeley, CA.

The Natoli AIM Data Acquisition and Analytical Software for Natoli’s NP-RD10A single-station tablet press speeds research and development.