In this episode, Alivia Leon, assistant editor, speaks with Christian Dunne, director of global corporate business development, Chargepoint Technology, about current and future processing equipment trends, such as automation, cost, and sustainability.
In this episode of the Drug Solutions Podcast, Alivia Leon, assistant editor, speaks with Christian Dunne, director of global corporate business development, Chargepoint Technology, about current and future processing equipment trends. Christian shares his expertise on trends such as automation, cost, and sustainability, and highlights how these aspects can affect processing equipment and the bio/pharma industry.
For the past 20 years, Christian has been creating innovative solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotech, cell therapy, and fine chemical industries in the form of high containment and aseptic process solutions. His technical expertise experience includes supplying high containment isolators down to low nanogram levels; Grade A (ISO5) sampling & dispensing facilities, together with R&D/production filling line RABs & isolators.
For the past 8 years Christian has been working with Chargepoint Technology on the advancement of their Split Butterfly range of solutions in the aseptic and containment fields, handling high potent/sterile powders and small-scale components, where both product and operator protection are paramount.
More recently, Christian has been involved with several COVID-19 applications, both in the US and Europe. He has now moved into a business development role within Chargepoint Technology, concentrating on OEM applications and relationships within global engineering teams.
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