Pharmaceutical instrumentation encompasses a wide variety of products, equipment, and machinery. Each type of instrumentation plays an important role in each unique step of the manufacturing process.
Many facilities choose to install facility monitoring systems to monitor particle counts and other environmental parameters within a manufacturing facility because it makes great business sense. Benefits include waste reduction, improved yield and profits.
The growing interest and demand for biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars is pushing the industry to invest in more biopharmaceutical processing and packaging technology and capacity.
AdvantaPure has a range of product solutions that were designed specifically for low temperature bulk drug storage and transport.
Biosimiliars, emerging markets, novel therapies and adoption of next generation processing technologies are just a few of the many market dynamics impacting the biopharmaceutical industry. Drug manufacturers are taking a hard look at how to reduce costs, while increasing their flexibility and productivity.
Single-use technologies are well into the adoption phase, with most of today’s drug manufacturers implementing them in one or more steps of their small and large molecule production processes. In fact, there are many manufacturers implementing single-use process flows wherever possible, but this is not always feasible depending on the age and scale of both the company and the process.
We pursue the goal of “think globally and act locally”. Customers absolutely need local, or at least regional, technical support, yet at the same time there are global harmonization goals for customers and at regulatory levels.
As the global pharmaceutical market continues to evolve, it’s apparent that the use of, and need for contract service and manufacturing providers will continue to expand.
Solid dosage processing involves a variety of technologies in order to take an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and potentially combine it with excipients to create a finished dosage, such as a capsule or tablet. Once that solid dosage is in its final form, it must be properly packaged for distribution. Generally speaking, oral solid dosage forms are the most commonly used pharmaceuticals to treat diseases and conditions.
Pharmaceutical raw materials include both active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and inactive ingredients or excipients. APIs are bulk drugs that are pharmaceutically active and generate a desired pharmacological effect, whereas, excipients are pharmacologically inactive substances that are generally used as a carrier of the API in the drug.