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Round Vibrating Screening

Vibratory separators and filters are indispensable to many industries including pharmaceutical food processing bakery paintingcoating materials plastics fireworks incense powder processing pollution disposal and even hightech components Lao Soung Machinery Co Ltd is a leading manufacturer with a long history and rich experience of designing and pro...

Controlling Production Process

Incorporating analytical methods

There is an increasing interest on drug delivery systems based on macromolecules Peptides and proteins of pharmaceutical interest constitute a growing share of the new drugs coming into the market Traditionally solid state properties were not the first issue when it came to formulation of these products It has to be considered however that many the...

Moving from R&D to Manufacturing Excellence

Despite the innovations and advances in science the pharmaceutical industry has been more used to incremental change in manufacturing than quantum leaps that anticipate the future Initiatives like Lean manufacturing Six Sigma and other operational excellence programmes attracted the attention of the pharmaceutical industry a few decades later than...

Targeting Best Practice in Packaging

The Association of South East Asian Nations ASEAN is a multicultural region of over million people Despite the diversity of culture and language the ASEAN nations are making efforts to work cooperatively to improve the economy of the region In addition to economic development the region is striving to improve healthcare provision and these two fac...

Laboratory Automation Systems - LAS is More

The laboratory automation system LAS is a combination of analytical instruments linked by sophisticated sample management modules robotic devices and tracking systems It harnesses the strengths of robotic technology to transport and process sample tubes when they arrive at the laboratory Automation solutions are put in place in centres with hightes...

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A Golden Bird to Tame

In the past three decades biotechnologyled medicines have revolutionised the treatment of several life threatening and rare diseases The substances produced by living cells and used in the treatment diagnosis or prevention of diseases are referred to as biologic drugs or biologics or biopharmaceuticals or recombinant therapeutics Since the approval...

Singapore Surges Ahead

Like Ireland and Puerto Rico Singapore is a thriving location for pharmaceutical manufacturing with a proven track record Companies with significant operations in Singapore include GlaxoSmithKline Merck Novartis Pfizer SanofiAventis ScheringPlough Wyeth and Kaneka At the start of Singapores Biomedical Sciences BMS initiative in mid the goal was...