Streamlining Protein Therapeutics with Freeze Dryer Formulation Advance

For developmental scientists looking to accelerate and streamline the laborious task of developing freeze-drying cycles for protein-based therapeutics, a next-generation of freeze dryers with new technology have been developed.

SP Industries, Inc. (Stone Ridge, NY, USA) presented its latest innovations in freeze-drying technology at the IBC Formulation Strategies for Protein Therapeutics meeting September 2009 in Rayleigh, NC, USA. At the meeting, visitors saw how by integrating the LyoStar freeze dryer with SP Industries' Smart freeze dryer technology provides development scientists with maximum programming flexibility and product protection whether the product is processed in vials, bulk trays, 96-well plates or syringes.

The new LyoStar is designed and built like a production freeze drier, yet the size of a pilot plant model. The LyoStar has excellent shelf mapping, fast shelf freezing, stoppering for vials, ease of use, high reliability, and software that greatly reduces the average formulation development cycle time.

Smart freeze dryer technology is a patented system that puts the experience of the world's top lyophilization scientists into an easy-to-use cycle development tool. Smart freeze dryer technology enables development scientists to create a streamlined but safe process that can shave days off the production cycle. This efficiency gain can eliminate production bottlenecks, expand capacity, and reduce production costs.

SP Industries is a leading manufacturer of laboratory to production-scale freeze dryers/lyophilizers, centrifugal evaporators and concentrators, environmental control chambers, thermal control system, glassware washers and dryers. The company markets its products under well-known brands including Hotpack, VirTis, FTS, and Genevac. SP Industries has ISO 9001:2000 registered production facilities in the United States and Europe.

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