Ima Active’s coating pan for film and sugar coating processes helps Glaxo Smith Kline to reduce environmental impact while increasing efficiency. Coating highly humidity sensitive products like antibiotic tablets is challenging. Stable core temperature and the balance of thermodynamic conditions are very important and need to be tested before installing a coating pan. Imas coating pan Perfima for film and sugar coating has made the practical test at the Glaxo Smith Kline site in France.

Biotechnology-based pharmaceutical products form a growth market offering high added value. With the new “Quality by Control” approach, it will be possible to control the product quality during production in the future. Bilfinger is developing new type of software for smart bioprocessing.

The trend to increased specialization and higher-potency active ingredients creates the need for hermetically sealed process flows. Government regulations are also becoming stricter. To an increasing extent, the production process will have to be designed as a containment system. Containment (at least in the pharmaceutical industry) is nothing new. It is actually a long-term trend. Nevertheless, expertise in this field is not evenly distributed.

Because of low crude oil prices, times are hard for bio-based chemicals as they can rarely compete with their fossil counterparts pricewise and cannot even play a trump card in the matter of climate change. Nevertheless, industry and academia are developing bio-based processes fervently and with the prerequisite that the products must not be more expensive than conventional ones.

Chemical companies continue to build new plants. Between 2005 and 2015, global investment in the chemical industry increased by nearly a factor of three and currently stands at more than $ 200 billion. But this rapidly growing market also has growing challenges. This Achema trend reports sheds some light on current mega-projects and the impact this development has on engineering companies.

Learn how the diagnostics built into Emerson’s latest generation vibrating fork level switches provide information that enables operators to resolve problems before they impact productivity and quality.

Eaton has developed a hose that would help the exploration of oil hidden beneath the surface of the water. These hoses undergo various rigorous tests in order to efficiently work in challenging scenarios. Read on to know more about the products that the company provides to work in the high-pressure environments.

Praxair announced that it has renewed and expanded a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.

Continuous documentation, qualified vehicles, staff training: the EU guidelines on “Good Distribution Practice” (GDP), amended in 2013, impose significantly greater obligations on manufacturers and freight forwarding companies dealing with pharmaceutical products. They transfer the already familiar principles of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) from pharmaceutical manufacturing onto the streets.

Oxea plans to significantly expand its supply of carboxylic acids in the short to medium term. To this end, the company is already evaluating various strategic options for its worldwide production sites to be able to meet increasing global demand in the future.