Equipment

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group’s ASEPCO Weirless Radial diaphragm valves eliminate dead legs and product entrapment.

The process control and automation requirements of single-use systems differ from those of stainless-steel equipment.

QF20kSU single-use pumps from Quattroflow are used for applications requiring gentle product handling, high containment, low pulsation, purity, and cleanability.

Parenteral packaging will be well-represented at INTERPHEX, especially technologies associated with fill/finish of ready-to-use vials, cartridges, and syringes.

The new ISPE Containment Manual is a summary of the process involved in the manufacture of highly active or highly hazardous pharmaceutical substances.

The pharmaceutical industry now has a way to accurately evaluate and compare dust collection systems that are self-cleaning

Pump systems must be designed to meet the needs of specific processes, including preventing cross-contamination and damage due to shear forces.

Extraction studies demonstrate approaches for evaluating single-use bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing materials.

GEA’s ConsiGma continuous tableting line combined with Siemens’ automation and Sipat data management systems enables continuous manufacturing.

The authors describe the development and validation of a highly sensitive point-of-use pressure decay test.

EMD Millipore’s Mobius Power MIX 2000 can mix buffers, culture media powders, and other challenging materials.

Recipharm is investing more than EUR1.2 million to enhance its small-scale GMP API development and manufacturing capabilities in Paderno Dugnano, Italy.

Consider the purity of exhaust air emitted by vacuum pumps in addition to the purity of compressed air used in the pharmaceutical process.

Meissner’s QuaDrum rigid outer containers for its single-use assemblies can be used with standard, access, or retaining lids.

Novasep’s BioSC Lab chromatography is a flexible equipment that enables operations from one column up to six columns in batch, parallel batch, or continuous processing with all media and membrane types.

A PESU membrane is now available for Sartorius Stedim Biotech Sartocon benchtop and production-scale filtration assemblies.

R-Pharm facility in Yaroslavl, Russia, is designed to produce biological drugs with GE Healthcare's FlexFactory manufacturing platform.

GE Healthcare’s GE BioPark Cork will hold four KUBio manufacturing facilities; GE will also collaborate with NIBRT for biopharmaceutical training.

Best practices for buying, selling, and transporting second-user equipment.

CMOs experiment with new filtration and purification methods to alleviate downstream bottlenecks and stay competitive.

Industry experts discuss recent trends in modular manufacturing.

A process-specific preventative maintenance program improves productivity and reliability.

The platform combines an expression system with equipment and process controls to enable rapid development and scale-up of robust titers.

GE and Sealed Air extend their long-term collaboration to develop single-use films purposefully constructed for bioprocessing applications.

The company announced that it will be expanding its portfolio of single-use vessels for fermentation.

Irvine Scientific’s new product range includes chemically-defined, serum-free media, to increase productivity of viral vectors and recombinant proteins in suspension cultures.

CMOs are working hard to improve performance by investigating new technologies for filtration and purification.

This paper describes a unique Prep-rP-HPLC technique that uses a C-18/C-8 derivatized silica coated with a hydrophobic quaternary ammonium salt or quaternary phosphonium salt that acts as an additional/surrogate stationary phase (AsP/ssP).

Gamma-stable fluoropolymers are an alternative material for single-use bags and assemblies in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Early planning for the integration of clean-in-place systems for equipment cleaning is key.