Intelligence Platforms Can Strengthen
Relationships with Contractors
With the right technology tools, the sponsor organization and the contract manufacturer can have self-service, on-demand, and scheduled access to all manufacturing, quality, and process-development data.
>>Coming Soon: For Jim Miller’s analysis of trends in the outsourcing industry, look for Pharmaceutical Technology’s forthcoming Outsourcing Resources supplement.
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The RotorFlow RFO fluid-flow sensors from Gems Sensors and Controls (Plainville, CT) provide a pulsed 4.5–24-V output that is proportional to the rate of flow.
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Telstar’s (Terrassa, Spain) CytoUltra biosafety cabinet is designed to protect operators from cytotoxic and hazardous products that contain small amounts of volatile chemicals. |
Fortress Technology
3A Foot: Hygienic Machine Leveling Feet for Phantom Metal Detectors.
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Kavon Filters
Fluid-bed dryer bags
Kavon provides custom replacement fluid-bed dryer bags for US and European equipment models. The bags are appropriate for wet granulation, dry filtration, and wet and dry coating applications. The company offers flexible 1–4-bag systems in various fabrics choices and also repairs bags. Kavon Filter Products, Kavon Filter Products, Wall Township, NJ &brkbar; www.kavonfilter.com &brkbar; tel. 732.938.3135
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- Emerson Process Management (Pittsburgh, PA) has expanded the range of applications for its 2-Wire Micro Motion Coriolis mass flowmeters, which now can be applied to an even broader range of installations.
- The newest version of Pilgrim Software’s (Tampa, FL) SmartSolve process-automation product provides enhanced support for audits, regulatory reporting, document control, and training management.
- PLÜMAT’s (Espelkamp, Germany) BFL 854 fully automatic aseptic filling and sealing line for presterilized bags meets the growing trend in the pharmaceutical industry for packaging injectable drugs in flexible bags using an aseptic filling process.
- Spiroflow Systems’s (Monroe, NC) recently redesigned line of nine flexible screw conveyors are intended to reduce material handling, product waste, and downtime between batches.
- The ProVU temperature and process controller from West Control Solutions (Gurnee, IL) includes advanced functionality such as profiling and datalogging options.
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- Aug. 9–11: Pharmaceutical Tablet Technology (St. Charles, MO). Tablet-press operators, tablet-press maintenance technicians, granulation technicians, quality-assurance personnel, and supervisors with experience or backgrounds in chemistry, biology, engineering, and pharmacy will benefit from attending and actively participating in discussions during this course.
- Aug. 17–18: ImVacS (Cambridge, MA). This conference’s four vaccine-focused meetings will address innovating strategies to meet current health threats, changing technology for vaccine manufacture, top challenges faced during preclinical development, and progress underway for adjuvants and novel delivery systems.
- Aug. 17–19: CPhI South America (Buenos Aires). Attendees will meet more than 150 exhibitors from 20 countries, get in contact with suppliers and distributors during the Match and Meet program, and expand their networks during colocated conferences.
- Aug. 23–25: CGMP Quality Principles for Pharmaceuticals, Biopharmaceuticals, Biologics, and Medical Devices (King of Prussia, PA). This course is intended to give participants a thorough understanding of current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) principles, as well as tools that may be used in developing and managing CGMPs.
- Aug. 26–27: Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratories—A Regulatory Compliance Primer (King of Prussia, PA). This course will provide participants with an understanding of how to effectively handle out-of-specification results, deviations, laboratory investigations, and corrective and preventive actions.
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