Equipment and Materials

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, will collaborate with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-headquartered SaudiVax to design a manufacturing plant to produce biologics and vaccines for the Middle East and North Africa. Merck KGaA will also provide its integrated Contract Development Manufacturing Services as part of the partnership. SaudiVax intends to be the first Saudi company to manufacture halal…

BICO Group subsidiaries Scienion and Cellenion today announced the launch of their SpheroOne single large-particle sorter and dispenser for drug testing using complex in-vitro 3D models. The SpheroOne platform can dispense individual spheroids, organoids and tumoroids, handling cellular aggregates ranging from 80 µm to 600 µm and complementing Cellenion’s CellenOne platform for sorting and dispensing…

Advanced Energy (NSDQ:AEIS) has introduced the TEGAMLink T2.0 mobile app, which works with the company’s TEGAM 930 Series Bluetooth thermometers for pharmaceutical and food safety applications. The app supports the streaming and recording of temperature data from production-floor equipment to programs and quality management systems. A Touch Entry keyboard extension supports automation capability for companies…

DuPont (NYSE:DD) has debuted a new line of Liveo-branded pharma bottle closures. The one-piece silicone stoppers and tubings are composed of biomedical-grade platinum-cured silicone elastomers. The pharma bottle closures are intended to seal threaded glass and plastic bottles and containers intended for critical fluid transfer, media and buffer pooling and storage, and sample collection in…

Esslingen, Germany–based Festo will display a range of new products at Interphex 2021, the biotech and pharma technology event scheduled for October 19 to 21 at the Javits Center in New York City. Included in the lineup will be its new VEAB pressure controller and the VEMD mass flow controller. In addition, other new products on display will include the VYKA high speed,…

STERIS (Menton, Ohio) and H+E Pharma (Stuttgart, Germany) will collaborate on designing, installing and maintaining utility water systems for the pharma sector and other life science applications in Europe. The partnership will provide end-to-end, turnkey clean utility water systems. “We can now provide our broad portfolio of Finn-Aqua products, alongside H+E’s engineering expertise to offer…

Honeywell (NASDAQ:HON) will integrate manufacturing execution system (MES) software offerings from Performix Inc. into its portfolio of offerings for life science companies. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Houston, Texas–based Performix specializes in creating MES software for pharma and biotech companies. The company also has an office in Pune, India. Late last year, Honeywell…

Steris has launched the next generation of its vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) biodecontamination systems to achieve 6-log bioburden reduction in good-manufacturing-practice pharmaceutical, medical device and research environments. It’s possible to integrate the new VHP 100i and 1000i systems into a facility’s building automation and HVAC systems, running a decontamination cycle at programmed intervals or at…

Thermo Fisher (NYSE: TMO) is debuting a SpeedVac refrigerated vacuum concentrator to maintain the temperature of heat-sensitive samples, including proteins. The SpeedVac SRF110 modular refrigerated vacuum concentrator offers programmability to allow operators to specify chamber temperature before and after a sample run. The system is available in a modular configuration known as SRF110P1 or in…

The chemicals and materials specialist Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) has debuted J.T.Baker robotic tips for robotic liquid handling and research workstations. The company says the new tips offer high precision and reliability. The tips’ applications include workflows related to genomics, cell biology and proteomics. Avantor will employ an independent test lab to verify the robotic tips are…