New solutions for fluid path single-use equipment

In order to accel­er­ate the advance­ment of ther­a­pies, Trelle­borg Health­care and Med­ical launch­es the Bio­PharmaPro fam­i­ly of inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts, mate­ri­als and ser­vices for flu­id path sin­gle-use equip­ment. Build­ing on its his­to­ry of inno­va­tion, Trelle­borg Health­care & Medical’s Bio­PharmaPro range deliv­ers solu­tions cre­at­ed from a vast port­fo­lio of mate­ri­als, includ­ing sil­i­cones, oth­er elas­tomers, ther­mo­plas­tics and com­pos­ites, which can be man­u­fac­tured into tub­ing, cus­tom mold­ed com­po­nents, and pro­cess­ing columns up to full assem­blies, and much more.

Solu­tions range from indi­vid­ual sin­gle-use com­po­nents to com­plex assem­blies and full bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sys­tems man­u­fac­tured from a wide port­fo­lio of poly­mer mate­ri­als meet­ing func­tion­al­i­ty, clean­ing and ster­il­iza­tion, and reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments. State-of-the-art equip­ment, process­es and advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing tech­nol­o­gy pro­duce inno­v­a­tive and reli­able pre­ci­sion com­po­nents and assem­blies cre­at­ed using extru­sion, mold­ing, com­pos­ites and var­i­ous oth­er technologies.

Sys­tems can be pro­duced in ISO 7 and ISO 8 clean­rooms and all com­po­nents meet clean­li­ness and bio­com­pat­i­bil­i­ty require­ments, includ­ing Bio­Pho­rum Oper­a­tions Groups (BPOG) Extracta­bles & Leach­ables stan­dards for sil­i­cone tub­ing. Inte­grat­ed solu­tions, includ­ing full assem­blies, pack­ag­ing and kit­ting enable sup­pli­er consolidation.

Flo­rance Veronel­li, Seg­ment Man­ag­er Health­care & Med­ical Europe, says: “Because sin­gle-use sys­tems per­form crit­i­cal func­tions, we build strong part­ner­ships with our cus­tomers to col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly devel­op inno­v­a­tive solu­tions to opti­mize out­comes. When cus­tomers approach us with their ideas for inno­v­a­tive com­po­nents and devices, we work with them at every step to turn these ideas into real­i­ty. BioPharmaPro’s com­bi­na­tion of poly­mer mate­ri­als exper­tise, advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing process­es, inno­v­a­tive engi­neer­ing and qual­i­ty assur­ance enables us to pro­vide sup­port to accel­er­ate the busi­ness of our bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal customers.”

Trelle­borg Health­care & Med­ical sup­ports bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies with a range of prod­ucts, from sin­gle-use tub­ing and tub­ing sets and cus­tom mold­ed parts to full assem­blies for fil­tra­tion or chro­matog­ra­phy equip­ment with advanced com­pos­ite columns. Mike Urban­s­ki, Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er Bio­Phar­ma, adds: “In the post-Covid world, bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal devel­op­ment is increas­ing­ly rapid and devel­op­ment times need to be short. But the mar­ket struc­ture is also chang­ing rapid­ly. Sys­tem sup­pli­ers are shift­ing their focus away from prod­uct engi­neer­ing to process engi­neer­ing and drug devel­op­ment. There­fore reli­able con­tract man­u­fac­tur­ers and long-term part­ner­ships are need­ed, as they can sup­port with their capac­i­ty in devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing of mechan­i­cal systems.”

The Bio­PharmaPro range includes plat­inum-cured sil­i­cone tub­ing; braid­ed hose which are rein­forced for high­er pres­sure appli­ca­tions; fit­tings for tub­ing and con­nec­tors; and vul­can­ized and non-vul­can­ized sheet­ing. It also fea­tures liq­uid sil­i­cone rub­ber (LSR) parts avail­able in com­plex geome­tries; mul­ti-com­po­nent parts in one bond­ed solu­tion; advanced com­pos­ite mate­ri­als; and engi­neered-grade mold­ed ther­mo­plas­tic parts. Fur­ther ser­vices for all com­po­nents ensure appro­pri­ate clean­li­ness, ful­ly trace­able mark­ing and label­ing and — with final assem­bly — full solu­tions for bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal sys­tem suppliers.