EQUIPMENT

Key Manufacturing Equipment

  • Jetmill

  • Laminar flow hood

  • Microfluidizers (pilot to manufacturing scale)

  • Microfuge (refrigerated)

  • Minibeader

  • Mixers (regular, high shear, pilot scale, planetary)

  • Planetary micro mill

  • Resin grinders

  • Robotic liquid handler

  • Rotavaps

  • Sonicators

  • Soni-Sifter

  • Speedvac

  • Spheronizer (Marumerizer)

  • Spray dryers

  • Sterilizers

  • Tablet presses (single, 4- and 16-station)

  • Vacuum ovens

  • Complete sets of 1-200 emulsion/liposome manufacturing equipment including microfluidizers available for lease for GMP use 

  • Autoclave

  • Bag-On-Valve Aerosol Filling Machine (semi-automatic)

  • Ball mill minicer (NETZSCH)

  • Blenders (V- and bin-)

  • Biosafety hoods

  • Capsule fillers (powder)

  • Capsulgel filler/sealer system (Capsugel CFS-1000)

  • Centrifuges (low speed to ultra)

  • Coaters

  • Co-mill

  • Dessicators

  • Low shear extruders, pelletizers

  • Fitzmill

  • Fluid bed processors/coaters

  • Freeze-dryers/lyophilizers

  • HDPE bottle heat sealer

  • High shear granulator

  • High shear mixer granulator (GEA)

  • High pressure extruder (Avestin)

  • Hot melt extruders with choppers

  • Homogenizers

Key Analytical Instruments/Equipment

  • Balances and microbalances

  • Capillary Electrophoresis IEF Analyzer (Protein Simple ICE280)

  • Circular Dichroism Spectrometer

  • Coulter counter

  • Differential scanning calorimeter

  • Digital microscope

  • Dissolution apparatuses with autosamplers (Vankel)

  • Dissolution system (Sotax CE 7smart)

  • Franz cell apparatus

  • Halogen moisture analyzer

  • Helium pycnometer

  • HPLCs with UV, PDA, ELSD, RI, fluorescence and mass detectors

  • Inhalation particle analyzer (Next Generation Impactor, NGI)

  • Injection force analyzer

  • Karl Fischer titrator

  • Label and barcode printers

  • LCMS/LCQ

  • Light scattering detector

  • Moisture sorption isotherm analyzer

  • Osmometers

  • Particle analyzers (Mastersizer with dry & wet samplers, nano-sizer, HIAC, DLS)

  • Particle counters (HIAC, Single Particle Optical Sensing Acusizer, Coulter)

  • Plate readers

  • Sieves and sifters

  • Spectrophotometers

  • Stability chambers

  • Tablet friability tester

  • Tapped density tester

  • Thermogravimetric analyzer/differential scanning calorimeter

  • Tensiometer

  • Ultracentrifuge

  • USP dissolution apparatus and samplers

  • USP tablet disintegration tester

  • Viscometer

  • X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD)

  • Zeta potential analyzer