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Wales Economic Growth Fund

January 2012

Biopharma is aware of a Welsh Government incentive to assist companies with facilities in Wales to purchase capital items and we would be pleased to assist you with any application for freeze dryers or other pharma and biotech…

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Wanted – Your Used Freeze Dryer – Limited Period Offer !

December 2011

BPS are looking for existing  freeze dryers to buy back or offer a generous part exchange allowance against a new freeze dryer.

Machines will be evaluated individually on the basis of model, condition, service history and features. Should…

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Christmas Opening Hours 2011

Christmas Opening: We will be closed 24th December - 2nd January, reopening 8.30am 3rd January 2012 as normal. From all of us here at BPS, have a happy Christmas and New Year

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Turn your Vacuum Concentrator into a Freeze Dryer

October 2011

New accessories available for the miVac range of vacuum concentrator allow it to also be used as a miniature freeze drier, ideal for small laboratory tasks.

miVac Vacuum ConcentratormiVac Vacuum Concentrators

miVac is a range of vacuum concentrators capable of…

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New- Non-Destructive Moisture Detection

October 2011

Frequency Modulated Spectroscopy (FMS) is a non-destructive gas analysis technique for simultaneously monitoring moisture partial pressure and total headspace pressure in sealed parenteral containers.

Moisture Analysis in Freeze Drying

Accurately estimating the moisture in a freeze dried product…

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Emerging Technologies in Freeze Drying 2012

October 2011

Earlier this year we hosted a one-day event focusing on emerging technologies and practices in freeze drying, and due to its success we are in the process of organising another for 2012.

2012′s event will be located in…

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Understanding Vial Washer Efficiency

October 2011

From Ger Smit, President of PennTech Machinery Corp

“How much water (WFI) does your washer use per hour?”

A simple question with insufficient information to be answered. The correct question is: “What is the minimum amount of WFI…

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Comparison of Lyo-Cycles

Comparison of Lyophilisation Cycles for a BNCT agent using “traditional” and “SMART(R)” drying This study was carried out by the University of Strathclyde’s Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical

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Endpoint Determination Methods

In freeze drying there are two key endpoints to consider: primary drying, in order to know when to advance into secondary drying, and the end of the overall process.

Where primary drying should end and secondary drying begin is not…

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Laboratory Freeze Drying

May 2011

For many, first exposure to a freeze drying project will be in the laboratory environment and some knowledge of the freeze drying process and the equipment available will simplify later scale-up to pilot scale and production…

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