A pharmaceutical company has launched a manufacturing product to increase precision.
Cambridgeshire-based GiroNEX’s ‘Cube Plus’ is an automated precision powder dispensing system for use in manufacturing powder-filled capsules and vials for early phase clinical trials and related drug development studies.
The Cube Plus system has been specifically developed to target a significant gap in the market between powder dispensing systems to help automate routine research and development laboratory tasks, and high volume pharmaceutical capsule-filling machines.
It uses a 24-well dial plate and can quickly dispense from one milligram to one gram of pharmaceutical powders into each capsule with an accuracy better than +/- two per cent.
GiroNEX, based near Ely, says it can be used by companies such as contract development and manufacturing organisations (CDMOs) to prepare batches of a few hundred or thousand capsules as required, and can also be used to fill vials or syringes.
GiroNEX product manager James Veale said: “GiroNEX has worked closely with a number of CDMOs to help guide the design and development of the Cube Plus system and to ensure it meets the pharmaceutical industry’s need for a flexible and reliable capsule-filling system for use in early clinical studies.
“The Cube Plus builds on the same core powder dispensing principles as the company’s existing Cube system for laboratory research and development applications but has been specifically designed with dedicated software and a graphical user interface for use in regulated production environments.”
The system records all user details, capsule weights to the nearest microgram, and other information into secure electronic records in compliance with pharmaceutical manufacturing.
