ChargePoint Technology take AseptiSafe vaccine production valve around the world
The Liverpool-based company have taken the AseptiSafe bio valve to the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) exhibitions in Philadelphia and Virginia in the USA and Farmaforum in Spain.
This month, the AseptiSafe bio, which is a split-butterfly valve used in the manufacture of sterile drugs, like vaccines and alternatives to antibiotics, will be showcased at the ISPE Europe Annual Conference in Germany and at exhibitions in San Francisco and North Carolina, USA, and in April, the ChargePoint team will exhibit at Interphex New York.
ChargePoint Technology’s managing director, Chris Eccles said he wants the device to help speed up production to ensure that vaccines and antibiotic alternatives are developed quickly to save lives.
Eccles said: “The AseptiSafe valve has been created to meet the needs of the modern day pharmaceutical industry and that is one where the need for biotech drugs can be manufactured quickly and safely.
“I am very proud of our team and the positive response we have received at the exhibitions so far and look forward to the next ones in Germany, the USA and Interphex.”
ChargePoint said it’s biggest marketplace is the USA, where it achieved 20% of revenues from customers include that Merck, Roche Genentech and Johnson & Johnson. In the UK GSK and Aptuit are served by the business while in Central Europe sales have been led by Switzerland, Germany and Belgium from pharma heavyweights such as Roche, Pfizer, Novartis, Teva and Sanofi.
The AseptiSafe valve, reduces the need for costly high classification clean rooms by reducing the size of the high class are to that of a dinner plate, according to the company.
The device speeds up production, keeps raw materials free from bacterial contamination and has the capability to be used for high containment performance, protecting operators from hazardous products ChargePoint said.
Following their exhibit at the major event Interphex in April, ChargePoint will appear at the Greater LA Chapter 23rd Annual Vendor Night in May, in San Diego in August, P-Mec in India in December and the ISPE UK Annual Conference in November.