Millipore Corporation

Millipore is a multinational company supplying membrane-based and chromatographic purification products and services for R&D, scale-up and manufacturing applications to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide. Millipore is dedicated to total quality control, ISO 9000 principles and technical advancements to meet customer needs. Millipore's infrastructure of scientists, engineers and specialists provide the expertise to work with customers in critical purification and separation applications.

Millipore serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide in drug discovery, scale-up, manufacturing and quality control applications. Millipore validation experts offer programs and drug product testing databases to help customers ensure the inspection readiness of their purification processes.

Millipore specializes in sterile filtration, prefiltration, ultrafiltration, virus removal and chromatography. These technologies are packaged in the most efficient configurations to meet specific customer applications. From discovery to pilot to final production, Millipore covers the spectrum of devices and systems. To meet biotechnology's need for validatable virus removal, Millipore developed selective virus filters as the VIRESOLVE brand line of membranes and device modules.

Millipore's ACCESS Application and Validation Services comprise a full range of validation support, application-specific testing, microbiological services, and systems design. Analysis of filter extractables, operator certification for filter integrity testing, product-based integrity testing, microorganism isolation and identification, and filtration process reviews are all part of the ACCESS suite of services. Technical support is provided 24 hours/day, seven days a week.

Millipore's BioProcess Division is ISO 9001 certified. Seven major worldwide manufacturing facilities are dedicated to maintaining Medical Device registration, cGMP compliance, and ISO 9000 compliance. Customer audits are encouraged.