Certifications
FAA Certifies AcuTemp Container
The "RKN" refrigeration container from AcuTemp.
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AcuTemp Thermal Systems (Dayton, OH), a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance insulation and temperature-sensitive
packaging, announced that its "RKN" temperature-controlled air-cargo container received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
approval. FAA granted the approval to AmSafe Bridport (Phoenix, AZ), AcuTemp's partner in the certification process. AcuTemp
says the approval marks the first instance that FAA has certified a compressor-driven refrigeration unit, thus permitting
its use in the cargo section of an aircraft. The container was designed to allow the air-cargo industry to transport and precisely
manage temperatures of perishable items such as vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and reagents.
Vetter Is Certified to Work in Japan
Japan's Ministry for Health, Labor and Welfare gave Vetter Pharma-Fertigung (Ravensburg, Germany) accreditation as a foreign
manufacturer for the Japanese pharmaceutical market. Vetter provides aseptic filling of prefilled injection systems. The company
was certified in the "drug, sterile product;" "drug, packaging, labeling, and storage;" and "medical device, sterilized medical
device" categories.
Expansions
Microfluidics Launches New Website
Microfluidics (Newton, MA) launched its newly redesigned website. The site (
http://www.microfluidicscorp.com/) provides clients an in-depth view of the company and its products using an intuitive navigation system and multimedia content.
Visitors can view company news, upcoming events, press releases, newsletters, and industry-specific solutions. The items are
organized into categories such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical. Visitors also can search for information about
topics such as cell disruption, high-shear particle-size reduction, liposomes, emulsions, and carbon nanotubes.
DRAXIS Builds New Facility
DRAXIS Health (Montreal, Canada) began constructing a 77,000-ft2 new secondary-packaging and warehousing facility in St-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. The facility will help DRAXIS produce multiple
nonsterile specialty semisolid products for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies (Skillman, NJ). The new building is expected
to be completed by mid-2008. DRAXIS then will install and validate the facility's equipment and ensure the facility complies
with the applicable regulatory requirements.
Advion BioServices Acquires New Instruments
Advion BioServices (Ithaca, NY) the bioanalytical services division of Advion BioSciences, is expanding its capacity with
the recent acquisition of two Applied Biosystems–MDS Sciex "API 5000" mass spectrometers and Waters "Acquity" ultraperformance
liquid chromatography (UPLC) capability. In addition, the company hired 17 employees after moving to its new laboratory facility
in April 2007.
Advion has operated a bioanalytical liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry laboratory since 1993 to serve the pharmaceutical
industry. The addition of the new API 5000 mass spectrometers gives Advion's bioanalytical laboratory a total of 24 triple-quadrupole
mass spectrometers, thus making it one of the largest bioanalytical contract laboratories in the world. Advion's acquisition
of UPLC broadens the range of liquid-chromatography capabilities the company can offer its customers.
