Equipment

In a roundtable Q&A with biopharma executives, the vulnerability and challenges of dealing with extractables and leachables in single-use bioreactor bags are explored.

Proper selection and installation optimizes fluid system performance.

Closures that protect solid-dosage drugs and the capping equipment that applies them have new product-protecting features.

The Wilden Quattroflow QF10k size pump from PSG, a Dover company, has been designed to fill the gap between the existing QF4400/5050 and QF20k pump sizes.

Sterile-molded filling assemblies from AdvantaPure are suited for single-use vial and syringe filling.

MilliporeSigma will collaborate with IPS and G-CON to offer end-to-end, turnkey, modular MAb manufacturing.

BioTek Instruments has released a second edition of its BioSpa software that now offers users a simplified but effective interface for kinetic imaging or detection workflows.

MJR PharmJet's MicroJet Reactor technology is a continuous process for producing nanoparticles with tightly controlled particle size and particle size distribution.

The Quattroflow QF10k size pump from PSG, a Dover company, has been added to its line of quaternary, four-piston diaphragm pumps.

The new 30,000-L, $150-million biologics manufacturing facility in Wuxi, China, quintuples the company’s existing manufacturing capability.

PTI moved to a new facility in Belgium that will house its headquarters and a R&D center for tablet dedusting, capsule polishing, and testing technology.

Fette Compacting and Glatt have joined forces to develop integrated solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid-dosage drug forms.

SciLog Select Go Single-Use Assemblies from Parker Hannifin uses an assortment of validated parts and assemblies to build needed devices for biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The company’s new modules offer scalable single-pass diafiltration and were exclusively showcased during its Leadership Forum series in Westborough, MA.

The companies have established a joint laboratory to develop full continuous processing to manufacture high yields of monoclonal antibodies at reduced costs.

A pneumatic cover lift for the Witte fluid bed dryer raises the cover for cleaning and inspection.

Alfa Laval rotary jet heads can be installed in small tank openings to replace static spray ball or rotary spray heads.

Industry experts were honored for business, scientific, and social contributions.

ABEC, an equipment and engineering company, will provide a custom-made, single-use bioreactor to custom manufacturing firm, Emergent, for its Maryland manufacturing facility.

The $72-million investment, part of a larger $850-million investment into its US operations, will allow the drugmaker to replace an outdated insulin vial-filling line and to upgrade technology at its Indianapolis manufacturing plant.

The partnership and the formation of the institute intend to bring together industry, academia, and regulators to tackle challenges and provide solutions for continuous manufacturing.

The companies will collaborate to produce and improve the recombinant properties of Aethlon’s Hemopurifier blood purification device.

Coperion K-Tron has added the K3-PH-ML-D4-QT35 design to the company’s K3-PH line of feeders for a variety of continuous processes, and will showcase the feeder at the 2017 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s AFG filling and closing machine for pharmaceutical powders in glass vials offers manufacturers a wide range of options.

GE Healthcare opened a 3D printing lab in Sweden that will speed the launch of products for bio/pharma manufacturing, such as a custom chromatography column.

Tools aid scale-up and comparison of single-use and stainless-steel bioreactors.

Fluid Air’s PolarDry spray dryers use electrostatic technology, providing low-temperature spray drying, encapsulation, and selective agglomeration in the creation of particles.

This article discusses fully automatic inspection of glass and plastic containers and factors that affect particle detection rate. 

Ross, Charles & Son’s SysCon, a full-service machine and controls fabrication facility, added wireless connection to its control panel.

The Quattrow QF4400HT quaternary four-piston diaphragm pump from PSG, a Dover company, is suitable for a variety of biopharmaceutical applications.