Manufacturing

Packaging machines, coding equipment, inspection and data capture systems, material handling, controls, and software must work together in a serialization system.

PharmaSpray delivers a consistent, validatable amount of dry lubricant.

Manufacturers using highly potent APIs must examine cross-contamination routes and determine acceptable limits.

The intermittent cartoner can be equipped with a variety of in-feed systems and can handle different package formats and closure options.

IDT Biologika completes large-scale biologics finishing facility in Dessau, Germany.

Monitoring device uses thermal imaging to inspect 100% of sachets and pouches.

A disperser blade and low-speed anchor combine mixing actions to ensure turnover.

Laser-marking speed exceeds 410,000 pharmaceutical pills per hour.

New polymers from Dow presented at CPhI 2014 help maximize a pharmaceutical product's solubilization performance.

Capsugel has received EXCiPACT certification for its sites in Bornem, Belgium, and Colmar, France.

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.