Manufacturing Equipment, Fill-Finish

Nephron Pharma and the University of South Carolina plan to build a sterile compounding lab at the University for research and training.

Equipment and systems for aseptic transfer and manufacture meet cGMP and Annex 1 requirements for pharmaceutical fill and finish.

Optima Pharma opened a new assembly hall, the CSPE Center, that will give the company space to build complete, multi-story pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.

Development and manufacturing machine specialists, groninger, have opened a new showroom at its headquarters based in Crailsheim, Germany.

Omega Design’s auto-indexing machine dispenses canister desiccants into a wide range of containers for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications.

Today’s inspection systems catch tinier flaws, manage data, and increasingly rely on artificial intelligence to further boost performance.

Closed systems for aseptic fill and finish were featured at INTERPHEX 2019.

Closed systems for aseptic fill and finish were featured at INTERPHEX 2019.

AST will unveil its multi-format robotic filling system, the GENiSYS R, at INTERPHEX.

The company will open its first European manufacturing facility in Castlebar, Ireland.

The Flexicon FPC60 peristaltic fill/finish system from Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group can use a variety of modules that allow users to create their own customized filling solution to suit small-batch applications.

Robotic isolators and single-use technologies are gaining ground, according to aseptic processing consultant Jim Agalloco.

AqVida, winner of the 2018 CPhI Excellence in Pharma Award for manufacturing technology and equipment, identifies advantages of robotics compared to conventional automation in fill/finish operations.

A robotic tray-loading system from ESS Technologies gently handles glass prefilled syringes.

The sterile-manufacturing contract development manufacturing organization is approved by FDA for viral vector manufacturing fill/finish processing at its biologics facility in Scotland, UK.

Single-use technologies, modular systems, and robots are on the rise.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Materials used in the seals of split butterfly valves for aseptic pharmaceutical manufacturing should be chosen carefully.