Manufacturing & Packaging Articles
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Industrialization And Scale-Up Of Drug Delivery System
11/30/2020
A pharmaceutical company and their product design partner were in need of a contract manufacturer capable of supporting the device development, injection molding, tooling, supply chain logistics and scale up automation strategy. The customer had developed a novel breath actuated pulmonary device and they were looking for the right manufacturer to assist them with product development refinement, samples for clinical trials and ultimately commercialization.
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A GMP Implantable Grade Bioresorbable Polymer Powder Breakthrough For The 3D Printing Of Medical Devices Using SLS Technology
11/12/2020
Recent innovations with Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) systems and bioresorbable polymers are redefining opportunities for the 3D printing of medical devices with complex geometries across a range of application areas. SLS systems utilize a high-powered laser to selectively melt and fuse powder particles of a bioresorbable polymer in a layer by layer process to manufacture a final implantable medical device part. Depending on the part geometry, these systems can typically print geometries as small as 0.4 mm with a tolerance of +/- 0.25 mm.
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Recombinant Collagen Via Fermentation: Safety, Sustainability, Acceptability
10/9/2020
The production of recombinant collagen made via fermentation-based processes addresses the market need for collagen that is safe, sustainable, reproducible, and acceptable to consumers.
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Automation Of Class III Medical Device Packaging
9/18/2020
This article will explore the need for sensitive and fast automated CCI testing technologies that are also reliable and how existing solutions can help achieve optimum quality goals for medical device manufacturers.
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Optical Design And Manufacturing: Challenges And Uses In Medical Applications
7/31/2020
Injection-molded optics offer medical device and equipment manufacturers a timely, robust, and high-quality component option — but not all molders can deliver on the promise of this technology.
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Gene Therapy: Maintaining Sterility At Low Temperature Storage
6/23/2020
Bringing the first gene therapy for pediatric Spinal Muscular Atrophy to market in a leak and break resistant container which maintains sterility over product shelf life, through freeze and defrost cycles presented challenges. A combination of high-quality components created a proven system which ensured CCI over the product shelf life and low temperatures.
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NovaPure® Components: A Proactive Approach To Reducing Particulate Risk
5/6/2020
A biotechnology company that manufactures injectable large molecules was seeking to evaluate elastomeric components that would help them to attain the highest quality standards for their manufacturing lines. The company took a proactive approach to meeting and exceeding regulatory guidelines concerning the cleanliness of their lifechanging medicines and were keen to learn how a supplier’s tight packaging specifications could help them with their approach.
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Biopharmaceutical Company Selects West’s NovaPure 1mL Long Plunger For First Commercial Drug Launch
5/6/2020
A small biopharmaceutical company looking to launch their first drug was seeking recommendations for packaging solutions for one of their pre-clinical drugs. They needed an experienced supplier that fully understood the challenges of delivering a biologic drug to the market.
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Streamlining Primary Container And Device Selection With Predictive Calculations
4/3/2020
This article highlights using a theoretical approach to complement experimental approaches to more quickly select a packaging and delivery system for your drug product.
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Beyond The Quote: Total Cost Of Ownership With Supply Chain Partnerships
2/3/2020
Critical components cannot be sourced like simple parts; they demand greater vendor/customer collaboration, profound depth of knowledge, and a supplier committed more to the relationship than the sale.