Manufacturing & Packaging Articles

1. Recombinant Collagen Made Via Fermentation Can Address Key Unmet Market Needs For Safety, Sustainability And Acceptability 10/9/2020

   The supply of collagen from traditional animal-based sources has several risks relating to safety, consistent reproducibility, sustainability and consumer acceptability. The production of recombinant collagen made via fermentation-based processes represents a significant opportunity to address these market needs for collagen that is safe, sustainable, reproducible and acceptable to consumers.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Why Extruded Tubes May Be Your Best Medical Device Packaging Option 1/31/2020

   Protecting your valuable medical products is of the utmost importance, but it often comes with a hefty price tag and unforeseen challenges. Rigid extruded tubes (ExT) can offer an affordable, customizable, durable, reusable, and sterilizable packaging option for your medical product.

10. There's No Crying In Medical Manufacturing! 12/10/2019

    Much like the game of baseball, medical manufacturing can be complex, demanding and ever changing. And it's hard. But "the hard... is what makes it great."