In the annals of napkin illustration, continuous drug tablet manufacturing may have only one entry: Fernando Muzzio’s 2003 depiction of a tableting line for Janet Woodcock, then head of the US Food ...

Early adopters and equipment manufacturers refine their equipment and processes, paving the way for broader use. Continuous manufacturing for oral solid-dosage (OSD) drugs continues to grow in ...

The collaboration with Pfizer aims to develop next-generation, continuous manufacturing for solid-dosage pharmaceuticals. GEA Process Engineering and G-CON Manufacturing have entered into a ...

In theory, making biopharmaceuticals 24/7—or close to it—could reduce production costs. Various models suggest switching from batch to continuous mode would cut the cost of producing almost all types ...

Although estimates vary slightly, many industry experts predict continuous manufacturing will, at the least, cut the cost of manufacturing biologics in half. Thus, it will be an attractive option for ...

A photo of technicians working in front of a process train. Novartis's continuous manufacturing center in Basel, Switzerland, replicates an end-to-end manufacturing process developed at the ...

Telstar carried out the project management under an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) arrangement. Telstar has completed the construction of the pharmaceutical manufacturing and process ...

Historically, pharmaceutical products have been produced in a traditional ‘batch’ system, in which every operation is executed separately using a defined quantity of materials. In batch manufacturing ...