Lab automation company Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has announced that it will return to the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting on October 25-29 in Los Angeles to display its NGS technologies. At booth 2037, the company will showcase its instruments and provide one-on-one demonstrations to demonstrate how its technologies can optimize next-generation…
Grifols kicks off new albumin plant in Dublin
Grifols today is inaugurating a new albumin purification and filling plant at its manufacturing and supply hub in Dublin. Barcelona, Spain–based Grifols said the new facility addresses the growing demand for the plasma-derived medicine. The newly built plant adds more than 183,000 square feet to Grifols’ Dublin facilities. The workforce will increase from 300 to…
WMFTS offers electromagnetic flowmeter for biopharma applications
Fluid technology specialist Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS) offers the Krohne Flexmag 4050 C electromagnetic flowmeter for biopharmaceutical customers. The flowmeter line supports a range of bioprocessing applications, such as filtration processes, chromatography, and buffer or media preparation. The Falmouth, UK–based company notes that the accurate and reliable flow-measuring system integrates with other products from the…
Stäubli highlights pharmaceutical packaging robots at Pack Expo
Stäubli Robotics will highlight its robot-based automation technology used for pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging at the Pack Expo event scheduled for October 23–26 in Chicago. The company will display its technology at booth 18025 at the event The company notes that robots for primary and secondary packaging and palletizing are evolving in complexity to handle…
Honeywell plant to make environmentally-friendly medical propellant
The international industrial conglomerate Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) has opened a facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to produce its new Solstice Air (HFO-1234ze(E) cGMP) medical propellant. HFO-1234ze is a fourth-generation refrigerant. The Morris Plains, New Jersey–based company says the new medical propellant has near-zero global warming potential (GWP) and is suitable for use in respiratory inhalers.…
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences snatches up ValitaCell
The lab automation company Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired the Dublin, Ireland–based biotech company ValitaCell. ValitaCell specializes in developing analytical technologies based on rich cell data to reduce the cost of commercializing new therapeutics. ValitaCell boasts that its ValitaTiter product fares better than other industry IgG quantification assays in terms of speed and ease…
Purdue University receives $3M to further pharma waste reduction efforts
The National Science Foundation has granted Purdue University researchers a $3 million grant to explore new pharma waste reduction strategies. While many life science companies have prioritized sustainability initiatives, the pharmaceutical industry continues to generate substantial sums of toxic waste. “It’s a waste problem that causes economic, social and environmentally negative impact,” noted project leader…
How pipette tips help support pharmaceutical R&D
Demand remains strong for instruments used for measuring liquid samples thanks in large part to strong demand across the healthcare sector. Pharmaceutical companies, diagnostics labs and academic institutions are notable consumers of liquid handling systems. Pipette tips are a notable example of a liquid handling product observing growth demand. According to Future Market Insights, the…
Expert answers to nitrosamine impurity questions
The presence of toxic nitrosamine impurities in drug substances and drug products has become a significant focus for the pharmaceutical industry following their identification above permitted limits in common drug products prescribed for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heartburn. To learn more about the situation, we interviewed David Elder – CMC consultant –…
Comau launches cleanroom-classified high-speed industrial robot
Automation company Comau has introduced the ruggedized Racer-5 Sensitive Environments (Racer-5 SE) robot for use in the pharmaceutical, health and beauty, food and beverage and electronics industries. The robot is designed to support the demands of cleanrooms and other sensitive environments with significant controls against contamination. The Racer-5 can be used in grade 6 ISO…