Laboratory Equipment and Lab Product News

SP Scientific Launches Versatile Bench Top Freeze Dryer

SP Scientific

29/04/2014

SP Scientific announces the AdVantage Pro - a new laboratory freeze dryer that combines development and pilot scale capabilities in a convenient bench top unit.Building upon the market leading performance of its illustrious predecessors, the AdVantage Plus and Advantage 2.0 freeze dryers, the ergonomically designed AdVantage Pro features a new Intellitronics™ controller offering enhanced functionality and intuitive touch screen navigation. Designed for both the...

Energy Efficient Freeze Drying Enhances Pharmaceutical Production

SP Scientific

15/08/2013

SP Scientific has produced a new technical brief that summarises the energy saving features available on its Hull range of production freeze drying systems.Out of the many steps required to produce pharmaceuticals products, freeze drying is perhaps the most energy intensive of the various production processes. Most of the energy consumed by a freeze dryer goes into the refrigeration system which must initially freeze the product and heat transfer shelves, and then...

Versatile High Performance Benchtop Freeze Dryer

SP Scientific

25/03/2013

The new VirTis BenchTop Pro freeze dryer range from SP Scientific have been designed to be highly affordable, yet meet the needs of the most demanding research laboratories. Each system can be configured to meet your present and future needs.Condenser refrigeration packages of -55°C, -75°C, -85°C and -105°C allow you to meet the demands of both aqueous or aqueous solvent based formulations. You can configure your system for smaller sample numbers or to...

Optimizing Freeze Dried Drug Dosage Form to Treat Muscle Atrophy

SP Scientific

14/02/2013

Using a SP Scientific LyoStar Freeze Drying System - leading pharmaceutical process development experts - GILYOS GmbH (Wuerzburg, Germany) will participate in a research program called "FORMOsA*" which was recently funded with about two million euros by the German Bavarian Research Foundation. The project focuses on age-related muscle atrophy (sarcopenia).In this project, GILYOS will be actively involved in the formulation development and freeze drying process design and...

Efficient Laboratory & Process Chillers

SP Scientific

30/01/2013

SP Scientific offers a wide range of compact and quiet recirculating chillers with heat removal rates from 1050 W (3580 Btu/hr) to 24,000 W (81,910 Btu/hr) and temperature ranges from -90°C to +150°C.Providing years of reliable cooling for your critical laboratory reactions or production process an optimized SP Scientific chiller is available to suit your application. SP Scientifics’ recirculating chillers provide highly efficient and cost effective heat...

Controlling Nucleation on Production Freeze Dryers

SP Scientific

17/12/2012

SP Scientific has announced that ControLyo™ Nucleation On-Demand Technology can now be retrofitted to a wide range of previously installed production freeze dryers.The ControLyo™ technology, patented by Praxair Inc., was licensed exclusively by SP Scientific in 2010 for use on development freeze dryers with shelf surface areas < 1.0 sq.-m. The technology was incorporated into the SP Scientific Lyostar 3 freeze dryer, the first commercial dryer to offer...