Laboratory Equipment and Instruments

The past several months have seen new product releases and updates made to already available laboratory equipment.

Phenomenex opened a new manufacturing and development facility in CA for the company’s gas chromatography columns.

Innovative new technologies released over the past several months seek to enhance bio/pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.

Solid-phase extraction has several advantages over liquid/liquid extraction for extractables and leachables studies.

The FPB-1P5 sanitary lab mixer is the newest addition to Eirich Machines’ OptimaBlend Fluidizing Blender family of horizontal batch mixing systems.

The portable Flexible Screw Conveyor from Flexicon can be tilted and rolled to serve multiple functions.

The LogTag UTRID-16 Data Logger System from CiK Solutions GmbH includes a built-in USB connector, automatic PDF report generation, and six-level multi-alarm display.

Ross Engineering’s ASME tanks are custom built to serve a wide range of applications and processing requirements.

Innovative new technologies released over the past several months seek to enhance bio/pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.

MDRS differentiates the API from the product matrix and enables measurement of particle size and shape.

PSL’s GFD benchtop nutsche filter dryer combines filtration, solids isolation, cake washing, and vacuum drying in one step.

The innovations-oriented Think Tank combines academic-scientific and technical expertise to use Shimadzu’s expertise to provide even more customer-focused service.

SGS expands its elemental impurity testing services at its laboratory in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France.

The authors survey deficiency letters issued for 190 drug master files supporting abbreviated new drug application submissions.

The RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyzer from Renishaw is a compact benchtop Raman imaging system that enables users to formulate tablets by speeding up the analysis of tablet composition and structure.

Analytical products for improved bio/pharmaceutical development.

Camfil Air Pollution Control has expanded its testing laboratory and added a dust collection test rig for the ANSI dust collection standard.

B&W Tek’s director of Market and Customer Development, Katherine A. Bakeev, PhD, discusses analysis of pharmaceutical raw materials and the benefits of using handheld Raman spectrometers.

Agilent’s new facility in Folsom, California includes laboratory, order fulfilment, and warehousing space.

Dedicated facility will address enhanced regulation of metals and impurities in pharmaceuticals.

The Chinese facility was cited for data integrity violations.

New technology introduced in 2016 aids innovation growth for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

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).

The Nexera-i MT from Shimadzu incorporates two flow lines, which allow for both UHPLC and HPLC analysis.