Equipment

Aprecia and Glatt investigate manufacturing technologies to widen the formulation design space for oral delivery.

Aber Instruments launched its new Futura neotf single-use biomass sensor for process fingerprinting for on-line monitoring and control of cell culture.

The XPR Automatic Balance by Mettler Toledo works to reduce exposure risk and ensure precision and throughput while powder weighing in laboratories.

Inline High Shear Mixers from ROSS are suitable for a wide range of dispersion, emulsification, and homogenization requirements

Munson Machinery introduced a new Bag Dump Module for installation on the lids of bulk solid mixers, blenders, size-reduction equipment, and storage vessels to maintain the dust produced when bulk materials are dumped manually.

Avantor plans to increase its single-use manufacturing footprint by 30% and double its cleanroom space in the US and Europe.

AkesoBio’s expanded manufacturing capacity, enabled by the addition of another Cytiva FlexFactory platform, will be used to meet current and future market needs in China as well as worldwide.

The new facility, which will be Evotec’s first in Europe, will aim to offer capacity, flexibility, and quality for biotherapeutic development and manufacturing while utilizing technology that employs small, automated, highly intensified, and continuous bioprocessing operations inside autonomous cleanrooms.

Sartorius has expanded in the United Kingdom with the relocation to a new facility in Havant, Hampshire, for downstream processing equipment.

ILC Dover’s soloPure flexible aseptic isolator creates a closed environment for sterile filling.

Catalent’s new mammalian cell culture suites in Madison, Wis. use single-use bioreactor systems for CGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing.

The China National Medical Products Administration has given the company the green light to begin manufacturing commercial supply of its approved anti-PD-1 antibody, tislelizumab, at its biologics facility in Guangzhou, China.

Under the terms of the expanded agreement, Catalent will provide Moderna with a new high-speed vial filling line until June 2023 along with inspection, labeling, cartoning, and final packaging for potential pipeline programs.

Decontamination, automation, and containment are important considerations for aseptic manufacturing in isolators.

High Purity New England launched the VerderFlex Vantage 5000 peristaltic pump for medium flow at low to medium pressures in biopharmaceutical applications.

Triple Shaft Mixers from ROSS are designed to adapt to various viscous applications requiring hygienic and sanitary handling.

HERMA US announced it now includes continuous labeling capabilities for its 132M HC Wrap-around Labeler.

SICK introduced the SICK W4F line of miniature smart sensors designed to reach next-generation detection performance while including new optical technologies to solve typical pharmaceutical sensing challenges.

Manufacturers of oral solid dose pharmaceutical formulations need PAT tools to reduce a product’s time-to-market and increase profitability.

TurboFil’s CrimpTech Series includes semi- and fully automatic machines.

The need for real-time monitoring and control has spurred the development of new analytical tools.

Nova Biomedical added a Sample Retain Collector (SRC) to its FLEX2 cell culture analyzer, which works to measure up to 16 tests including pH, gases, metabolites, osmolality, cell density, and cell viability.

Particle Measuring Systems introduced the MiniCapt Mobile Microbial Air Sampler, a monitoring instrument designed to prevent the introduction of bacterial contamination created during monitoring activities.

The 3M Polisher ST from 3M Health Care is a single-use anion exchange (AEX) chromatography solution intended to replace the reusable AEX polishing column for biologic drug manufacturing.

Inline high shear mixers from ROSS are available from 1 through 250 HP to accelerate mixing, emulsification, and homogenization in recirculation and continuous modes.