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January 21, 2010

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Q&A: Containment In Tablet Press Suite
By G2 Material Handling
A large Pharmaceutical Company in the Northeast requested G2MH's involvement on a project to use a fully automated Robot and Split Butterfly containment valves in a Tablet Suite. To the customer's knowledge this type of automation was a first for a Tablet Press suite. The customer's main concerns were operator safety and full containment of the Schedule II narcotic.


SOP Management As A Compliance Tool In FDA And ISO Environments
By MasterControl
Compliance with regulations and quality standards is a key factor that drives many organizations to establish and maintain SOPs. In FDA and ISO environments, the concept of quality is made tangible by the information and processes captured in SOPs, and proper implementation of those SOPs helps ensure quality.


Tips For Enterprise-Wide ERP Deployment In Pharma
By Dan Schell, Life Science Leader magazine
Life Science Leader investigates the topic of ERP (enterprise resource planning). To do so, we gathered input from two companies that have recently implemented ERP systems — Cayman Chemical, which manufactures biochemicals, and Synalloy Corp., which produces specialty chemicals for the pharma industry.


A Guide To Conducting Successful Mixing Trials
By Charles Ross and Son Company
Laboratory testing is an integral part of equipment procurement. In the case of mixing and blender equipment, two or more fundamentally different devices may present to be viable solutions to a particular process and the only way of determining the best technology is by performing lab tests.


Modern Tools For Hopper Design
By Tim Freeman, Freeman Technology
Although there are well-established methodologies for hopper design, many process engineers are uncertain as to how to measure powders in the prescribed way, extract the necessary parameters from recorded data, and successfully apply them. As a result, hopper design and the powder testing associated with it is often outsourced to specialists.

Spotlight On Drying

Freeze Dryers For The Pharmaceutical And Biotech Industries
GEA Lyophil's range of supplies and services comprises laboratory freeze dryers, the pilot range for R&D purposes and small production batches, and industrial size freeze dryers. There are also complete freeze dryer systems including, among others, automatic loading and unloading systems (ALUS®). In addition, the company provides service and retrofitting of existing freeze dryers.

Freeze Dryers For The Pharmaceutical And Biotech Industries

Brochure: Millrock Revo Series Freeze Dryer
The Millrock Revo Series is a new generation laboratory research shelf freeze dryer. Product can be loaded on the shelves and frozen prior to drying.

Brochure: Millrock Revo Series Freeze Dryer

Brochure: AdVantage™ Benchtop Freeze Dryers
This new VirTis® AdVantage™ Benchtop Freezer brochure, from SP Industries, focuses on the advanced features of the unit. A brief overview highlights the unit's extremely small footprint, powerful Wizard™ 2.0 controller for either manual operation or fully automated recipes, and limited 2-year refrigeration warranty.

Brochure:  AdVantage™ Benchtop Freeze Dryers

Video: Lyophilization
HollisterStier offers two GEA 385 sq. ft. and two BOC Edwards 220 sq. ft. lyophilizers in our high-speed commercial filling suites. Automatic cold shelf loading and unloading, and Clean-In-Place and Steam-In-Place systems are just some of the features that our large lyophilizers provide. For clinical trial and small lot products, a 30 sq. ft. lyophilizer is available.

Video: Lyophilization

Brochure: LYOSTAT 2 Freeze Drying Microscope
LYOSTAT 2 is our cutting edge, compact freeze-drying microscope system enabling quick and accurate identification of key parameters, such as collapse and eutectic temperatures. These critical temperatures are invaluable for both product formulation and cycle development.

Brochure: LYOSTAT 2 Freeze Drying Microscope

Datasheet: LyoStar II™ Research And Development Tray Dryer
The LyoStar II is an R&D, process manufacturing and development freeze-dryer that provides unmatched process accuracy, reliability and unique ease-of-use features. The LyoStar II features RTD-controlled shelf temperature accuracy of +/- 0.5°C or better and vacuum control within 0.1% of set-point.

Datasheet: LyoStar II™ Research And Development Tray Dryer

Featured Downloads

Brochure: ARL ADVANT'X XRF Series With IntelliPower™
ARL ADVANT'X, with IntelliPower, is the most flexible and highest performance sequential XRF spectrometer series, allowing the analysis of up to 84 elements in the Periodic Table.

Catalog: Engineer's Guide To Spray Technology
All capacity tabulations in this catalog are based on water. Since the specific gravity of a liquid affects its flow rate, tabulated catalog capacities must be multiplied by the conversion factor that applies to the specific gravity of the liquid spray.

Accessories: Nilfisk VT 60 CR Cleanroom Vacuum
Expressly for clean-room environments, the VT 60CR features a specially designed system that prevents motor carbon dust from escaping through the exhaust system. No filter change is required between wet and dry collection.

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Industry News

GSK To Deliver Better Medicines For People Living In The World's Poorest Countries
Peter T. Bigelow Joins Patheon As President, North American Operations
Alcon: Novartis Merger Proposal Is Grossly Inadequate
OraSure Technologies And Roche Diagnostics Sign Agreement For Fully Automated Oral Fluid Drugs Of Abuse Assays
X-Ray Inspection System Monitors Product Safety And Seal Integrity
MOCON Creates Webinar Series In English, Spanish, Chinese
Quotient Bioresearch, GE Healthcare To Complete Transfer Into New Radiochemistry Facility
Increased German Market Focus For Porvair Sciences
Antares Pharma and Population Council Announce Positive Phase 2 Trial Results
Contract Pharmacal Sets High Quality Standards With Mettler-Toledo Safeline And Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed
Cutting Edge Information CEO Foresees Trends In Life Sciences Industry
GenVec Enters Collaboration On Hearing Loss Treatments
Researchers Find A Treatment For Deadly Brain Tumor
Chiasma Grants Option To License Transient Permeability Enhancer (TPE) Technology For Small Molecule Products
PTI Micro Leak Testing Featured In PDA Journal
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Featured Multimedia

Video: G2's Latest Containment Project
Video: G2's Latest Containment Project
G2's latest Containment Project. IBCs were loaded above the tablet press and discharged using Buck split butterfly valves.

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This three-day course will bring you up to date with the latest technology by covering a broad range of topics related to both the equipment and the process.
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Effective Document Management For The Pharmaceutical, Biotech, And Medical Device Industries
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Good Clinical Practices (GCP)
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February 8 to 10 | Malvern, PA

Analytical Method Validation For Biologics, Biopharmaceuticals, And Other Therapeutic Products
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Industry Events

DSM: What Comes After Custom Manufacturing Services? Technologies To Meet The Challenges Of The Future
BioPartnering North America 2010
January 24 to 26 | Vancouver, BC


Siemens SIPAT Seminars
January 26 | Boston
January 28 | Research Triangle Park
Freeman Technology: Course On Blending And Flow Of Pharmaceutical Powders
February 23 to 25 | Pearl River, NY
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