Manufacturing

The Ross VSL-50 is a portable 50-gallon agitated vessel with silicone heating blankets and temperature sensors fabricated in stainless steel 316 and designed for atmospheric operation.

The recovery of an occasional mold does not merit any particular concern. On the other hand, evidence of mold proliferation indicative of infection of facilities or equipment must be taken seriously and requires the prompt implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

Romaco Kilian's KTP 420X tablet press compresses up to 360,000 tablets an hour.

GEA Pharma Systems' Buck MC valves are designed to address powder-handling needs for solid dosage form production.

Temperature-controlled packaging trends include prequalified systems that simplify adoption, reusable systems that are more sustainable, and new temperature-monitoring technology.

Fette Compacting America FE75 Tablet Press is designed to produce up to 1.6 million tablets per hour.

Filtration system allows scalability

Siegfried Schmitt, Principal Consultant, PAREXEL International, discusses the benefits of automated processes.

To achieve the high quality standards required for critical defects in pharmaceutical glass syringes, a combination of visual and camera-based inspection technologies are used.

InnoPack, which runs alongside CPhI Worldwide in Paris Nord Villepinte, France, is specially focused on pharmaceutical packaging. This is the place where companies gather to showcase their latest innovations and technologies in packaging. In this article, Martin Dallas from Essentra explains the role of innovative packaging technologies.

NIH seeks new therapeutic products to bolster the protective properties of vaccines.

Multidirectional collaboration is critical for the new pharma business model; cloud-based information services can offer a communications alternative.

Partnership is awarded for licensing of low-cost vaccine for the treatment of bacterial meningitis.

Meeting increasing expectations and escalating regulatory requirements to protect patients.

I Holland, in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and experts from the Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, United Kingdom, recently completed a two-year tableting science anti-stick research (TSAR) project, which sought to understand why certain formulations stick to tablet tooling.

Leading global tablet tooling manufacturer, I Holland has a range of multiple tip punches and dies optimised to meet the requirements of modern tablet production.

CALIXAR and VirPath use new manufacturing techniques to create a vaccine for the pandemic flu, influenza A (H1N1), available in 2015.

Regulations, product protection, and cost management are top concerns of supply chain decision makers.

GS1 publishes a healthcare industry guideline describing how to implement GS1 standards to support requirements of the 2013 US Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

Texas A&M dedicates national pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturing facility.

GPhA throws its support behind a bill to prohibit companies from using REMS practices to deter competition.

Micronization and other processes are used to obtain optimal particle characteristics for pulmonary and oral solid-dosage delivery.

The EdgeTRAC software Print, Apply, and Verify module from ROC IT Solutions can be used to implement serialization in manual packing operations.

Understanding how to identify, remediate, and prevent facility infection is crucial for product quality.

A semi-automatic case packer from Omega Design and Brazil's Grupo Tecnor offers unit-level serialization capabilities.

Designed for ISO Class 4 compatibility, BioClean? 400mm (16?) gloves give 33% more coverage than the standard cleanroom glove providing exceptional comfort and offering extra personal and product protection.

Molecular Profiles has expanded its capsule filling capability following significant investment into new equipment at its clinical manufacturing site in the United Kingdom.

Kurt Lumsden, Director, eCDS Client Services at PAREXEL Informatics, discusses the use of interactive response technologies in investigational product expiry management.

FDA approved XTANDI for the treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

The pharmaceutical industry has traditionally used glass as a primary material for containment systems due to a variety of characteristics that enable generally safe and efficient drug storage. However, there are many risks associated with glass.