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News Release from: GEA Niro | Subject: Spray Drying
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 December 2006
Faster drug delivery with spray drying
The new Niro brochure 'Commercialising Discovery with Spray Drying' is an 8-page 'must read' for anyone involved in R and D for the pharmaceutical industry
A new brochure, recently produced by Niro A/S in Denmark entitled 'Commercialising Discovery with Spray Drying' is much more than a list of product features and benefits: it's an 8-page 'must read' for anyone involved in R and D for the pharmaceutical industry The brochure begins by pointing out the irony of developing modern medicines: that it is a painful business requiring the unearthing of new compounds, isolating APIs, formulating therapies followed by seemingly endless trials, approvals and patents all with no guarantee of reward
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 8 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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What manufacturers need at this time, perhaps above all, is some trusted technology that provides unprecedented particle control that will open the door to previously unattainable delivery methods and product characteristics.
The brochure explores five ways in which spray drying can help companies commercialise discoveries:.
* improving bioavailability by capturing APIs in an amorphous form.
* encapsulation for drug release control and taste masking.
* aseptic production with precise control over the process.
* particle engineering to allow painless inhalation delivery.
* in-line granulation for better compressibility in a single process.
It continues to identify five things many people don't know about spray drying including the fact that test results on a laboratory scale are relatively easy to replicate during commercial production, especially when using the Niro Pharmaceutical Test Station in Copenhagen to help.
This takes at least some of the gamble out of the inherently risky game of pharmaceutical product development.
If your company is involved in pharmaceutical product development and you need to know more about what spray drying can offer, contact Niro for a copy of 'Commercialising Discovery with Spray Drying'.
Product development might never be the same again.
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