Single Use

Hybrid Design Considerations in Biomanufacturing: Leveraging Both Stainless-Steel and Single-Use Systems

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Demand for biopharmaceuticals is growing rapidly as new products and manufacturing technologies arise. For example, such approaches as immunooncotherapy and oncolytic viral therapy are now entering one of the fastest growing markets in medicine — cancer treatment. This market “should grow from [US]$177.4 billion in 2021 to $313.7 billion by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.1%” (1). Both preclinical and final biomanufacturing increasingly incorporate single-use (SU) components, including hardware and systems for containment and connectivity. Solutions…

Save Valuable Facility Time with Single-Use TFF

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Biopharmaceutical developers and manufacturers are part of a global, dynamic, and highly competitive market. They face constant pressure to produce high-quality products within relatively short time frames and at reduced costs. Process-intensification strategies and single-use (SU) solutions are popular approaches to maximizing productivity and promoting fast, efficient, and lean processing — the pillars of next-generation facilities. Filtration is an integral part of all bioprocesses and is applied to many up- and downstream steps, including harvest, clarification, and concentration/diafiltration. Tangential-flow filtration…

February 9, 2023

Container Materials for Biopharmaceuticals: A Comparative Small-Scale Case Study of Stainless Steel and a Proprietary Nickel-Based Alloy

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Evaluating compatibility of a drug substance with all surfaces that it might come into contact with during drug product manufacturing is essential to ensure product quality. Proteins can adsorb to contact surfaces, form aggregates, and desorb into a drug-substance solution. Proteins also can degrade in presence of leachables generated from contact surfaces during manufacturing. Containers and vessels used during manufacturing are single-use disposable components or metal tanks, primarily either 316L stainless steel (SS) or C-276 Hastelloy nickel-based alloy (HLY). Researchers…

December 12, 2022

Ensuring Single-use Systems Integrity in Aseptic or Closed-Process Applications

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Due to their numerous benefits, single-use systems (SUS) have been increasingly implemented in biopharmaceutical processes in the past decades. Originally used in applications for the preparation and storage of buffer and media, SUS have become more and more important in the commercial production of biopharmaceuticals. Today, biopharmaceutical manufacturers use this technology in critical drug substance or drug product process steps such as formulation, bulk storage, bulk transport, and final filling of drug product. By using single-use technologies, manufacturers can reduce…

December 8, 2022

Advanced Liquid Transfer with Single-Use Systems

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Most biopharmaceuticals are manufactured in large-scale stainless-steel piping and vessels, with downstream processes taking place within rigid and inflexible facilities. Although process steps such as harvest, purification, fermentation, filtration, dispensing, and freezing require flexibility, stainless steel has not been replaced yet by single-use systems at a large scale. However, manufacturers wanting to optimize process efficiency and scalability to obtain a viable and valuable product for commercial use inevitably will need single-use technology. Aseptic fluid management with single-use systems offers numerous…

October 20, 2022

BioProcess Insider Interview: Dr. Ger Brophy, Avantor

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Moderator: Dan Stanton, Co-founder and Editor, BioProcess Insider. Featuring: Dr. Ger Brophy, Executive Vice President, Biopharma Production, Avantor. Avantor has expanded its biopharmaceutical capabilities significantly over the past year. In addition to opening facilities in The Netherlands and Massachusetts for manufacturing and distribution of single-use systems, respectively, the company has broken ground on sites in Ireland and Singapore. Avantor also acquired Masterflex, a manufacturer of peristaltic pumps and fluid-handling solutions. Brophy explained that such activity exemplifies Avantor’s efforts to increase…

September 1, 2022

Advancing Biomanufacturing Capabilities with a Next-Generation Single-Use Solution

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Charles Heise, senior staff scientist in bioprocessing strategy and development group, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies. Heise presented work Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies has done to debottleneck downstream processes for continuous operations and high-titer product batches. He highlighted the benefits of automation and data management, closed processing, and advanced buffer management — all together in the SymphonX system. A disposable flow path provides buffer-management capability through standard software for “multifunctional” operations. The company wanted one “rig” to perform all the necessary downstream functions,…

August 24, 2022

Reflections on the Evolution of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing: A Virtual Roundtable with Scientists from Sartorius

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As a trusted partner in the life-sciences industry, Sartorius has contributed significantly to the evolution of biopharmaceutical manufacturing. To reflect on the rich history of the industry, we arranged a virtual roundtable. Based on shared questions, we corresponded about what we considered to be the most important scientific, technological, and operational developments in the past 20 years of bioprocessing. We also reflected on the emergence of new modalities and how such products are likely to shape the future of the…

August 22, 2022

Intensifying Bioprocessing: Profiling 20 Years of Advances Driven By Single-Use Technologies

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A long-time editorial advisor for BPI, Miriam Monge is head of marketing for fluid-management technologies (FMT) at Sartorius, where she works to develop sustainable growth strategies for single-use bioprocessing. Over the past 20 years, she has played a significant role in championing development, promotion, analysis, and adoption of single-use technologies (SUTs). We asked her to share her experiences and to offer additional thoughts about current and future industry trends. Science and Technology From a technological perspective, without a doubt, I…

August 22, 2022

The Coevolution of the Single-Use and Biopharmaceutical Industries: Company and Industry Reflections from Colder Products Company (CPC)

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Single-use technology (SUT), specifically its evolution from clinical applications to commercial production, has made a remarkable impact on bioprocessing. SUT flexibility and sterility have helped to build a strong foundation for manufacturers to initiate production of many different drugs quickly and cost-effectively, including vaccines and cell and gene therapies (CGTs). Single-use systems make it economically feasible to manufacture therapies for diseases that affect relatively small patient populations — the kinds of numbers that might not justify an investment in a…

August 22, 2022