The newly-opened
National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) in Dublin -
a global centre of excellence for training and research in biopharmaceuticals -
has been equipped with technology from Watson-Marlow Pumps Group.
The €57million
Institute, which was officially opened on 9 June 2011, is a world-class
bioprocessing facility, built as the result of a collaboration between
University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University and
the Institute of Technology, Sligo. It has been primarily funded by the
Government of Ireland through Ireland's inward investment promotion agency, IDA
Ireland (Industrial Development Agency).
A purpose-built
facility, NIBRT has been designed to closely replicate a realistic GMP
simulated, operational manufacturing environment, complete with market-leading,
state-of-the-art equipment. To ensure optimum accuracy and reliability for all
process pumping, the Institute has installed cutting edge technology from
leading suppliers of process technology and laboratory equipment including
Watson-Marlow. The company has supplied more than twenty 520 and 620 series
peristaltic pumps to both the upstream and downstream pilot plants.
Also in use in the
NIBRT Fill-Finish facility is an FPC50W aseptic peristaltic filling and capping
system supplied by Flexicon Liquid Filling, a part of the Watson-Marlow Group.
The NIBRT suite
comprises a simulated grade C/B clean room with material airlock, two-stage
personnel gowning airlocks, media preparation area and filling room, which is
equipped with a Flexicon pilot-scale filling machine under RAB. The
NIBRT Fill-Finish facility is designed to mimic operations in an aseptic vial
filling suite.
Rachel Pallett, UK
and Europe Sales and Marketing Manager, comments: "It is impossible to
overemphasise the importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland, home to
eight out of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world. The opening of
NIBRT represents a significant new investment in pharmaceutical development,
which will undoubtedly have an incredible impact, bringing cutting-edge
knowledge to an already-thriving industry. As a company that supplies into the
bio-pharmaceutical industry, Watson-Marlow knows only too well how important it
is for businesses to stay one step ahead of the competition by optimising processes
and procedures."
For more information visit
www.wmpg.co.uk
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