Equipment

FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific’s new manufacturing facility in Tilburg, the Netherlands, is now fully operational.

SKAN’s new Cellana isolator is designed for GMP manufacturing of ATMPs.

Fareva plans to use blow-fill-seal equipment and ApiJect’s prefilled injector technology to create fill/finish capacity in France.

New processes, automation, and digitalization were highlighted in 2021.

Bio/pharmaceutical manufacturing harnesses the benefits of digital transformation.

Isolators move into smaller-volume processes, including cell and gene therapy manufacturing.

Simple, inexpensive real-time analytics are urgently needed for high value products.

Sartorius will invest approximately €270 million (US$305 million) to expand its biopharmaceutical manufacturing activities in South Korea’s biopharm hub.

The GEA kytero combines the high performance of larger GEA stainless-steel pharmaceutical centrifuges with the benefits offered by disposable components.

Relative to prior models, the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris MX mass detector provides reduced downtime and maintenance, superior data quality, and seamless method transfers.

ROSS VersaMix Multi-Shaft Mixers provide fast and efficient large-scale powder dispersion.

Anritsu's 10-Lane Capsule Checkweigher can inspect up to 75,000 capsules per hour.

Lonza is expanding its microbial development capabilities at its Visp, Switzerland, site to support clinical and commercial drug development programs.

New equipment meets needs for faster vial labeling and RFID for unit-level serialization.

Trends and technologies in pharmaceutical manufacturing were highlighted on the show floor and in the conference sessions on the INTERPHEX Innovation Stage.

Sharon Nowak, Business Development Manager, Coperion K-Tron USA Food & Pharmaceutical Industries spoke about feeding equipment in solid-dosage drug manufacturing.

Fernando Muzzio, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, spoke about trends in continuous manufacturing of OSD drugs.

Johannes Khinast, PhD, Institute for Process and Particle Engineering in the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, spoke about continuous manufacturing of OSD drugs.

Dave DiProspero, director of Pharmaceutical Process Technology at CRB, spoke about equipment trends in solid-dosage drug manufacturing.

GenScript’s new gene synthesis center in Piscataway, NJ, is highly automated to accelerate production time and increase supply chain resiliency for biopharma and synthetic biology.

WL-1-RT Wraparound Vial Labeling Machine can label up to 600 vials per minute.

The ADCC+ Cell Line is designed for rapid identification of clones expressing high levels of recombinant therapeutic proteins.

The Mettler-Toledo StarWeigh checkweigher provides fill level measurements of products like glass and plastic bottles, vials, and ampules.

The ROSS Ribbon Blenders ensures even mix and consistent batches.

Evonik’s LIPEX Flow extruder is a new version of its high-pressure equipment for manufacturing liposomal drug products.

Conventional and robotic automation inside closed systems reduces risk.

Evolving equipment designs meet the unique needs of continuous processing techniques.