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INTERPHEX AWARDS
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INTERPHEX AWARD WINNERS 2023
Each year, exhibitors at INTERPHEX are invited to submit their new innovation or technology for a chance to be recognized. To win, the company
or technology must excel in each criterion, demonstrate leading market knowledge and reflect excellence in the pharma, biotech, manufacturing
and development industries. Here are the INTERPHEX Award Winners in each category for 2023.
Best in Show- IMA Life North America Inc.
INJECTA gloveless aseptic fill-finish system. INJECTA is a fully robotic fill-finish solution under
isolator that was designed to prevent human intervention in Grade A aseptic areas, where filling and
stoppering of vials and syringes take place, decreasing the risk of environmental contamination,
boosting the efficiency and the quality of injectable products. It's been conceived and designed
specifically with the aim to provide the market with an ultimate evolution of aseptic processing, in
an environment in which human intervention tends to be absent.
The INJECTA solution offers an automatic assembly system for the stopper feeding system
made up of a hopper, linear feeder and parts for routing the stopper to the picking point. The
implementation of advanced robotics plays a key role in achieving this result. Through this approach, the aseptic assembly of sterile
components loaded with RTP is possible. The system does not lose the sterility guaranteed by the autoclave, does not come into contact
with the operator, and is completely assembled in aseptic conditions following isolator decontamination.
Editor's Choice - Schunk
ADHESO: Energy-Free Gripping Technology. Automation of picking, placing, and handling
processes traditionally requires end of arm tools that use force generating mechanisms like air
pressure, electric motors, or vacuum. ADHESO is a new gripping technology that requires no
energy. Using the concept of Van der Waals forces, objects can be picked and placed in automated
handling applications. Van der Waals force is the phenomenon that allows a gecko to climb vertical
surfaces. This technology has been optimized in a high precision manufacturing process that
allows it to be used as an end of arm tool. Requiring no energy or force generating mechanism to
lift workpieces making it very environmentally friendly.
Sensitive and fragile workpieces can sometimes be damaged by high grip force of traditional end of arm tools. ADHESO offers a way
to automate sensitive handling processes with reduced risk of damage sometimes seen with mechanical end of arm tools. Gripping
large, small, heavy, or light workpieces is possible. ADHESO technology is 100% residue-free leaving nothing behind on the workpiece.
This makes it ideal in cleanroom environments or if a workpiece needs to remain clear of any debris or marks. In the SCHUNK booth at
INTERPHEX, ADHESO will be seen picking, placing, and handling glass vials in an automated medical application. Grippers and sample
workpieces will be available for booth visitors to test the technology by hand.
Best Technologies Innovation - West Pharmaceutical Services
West Ready Pack™. Through a strategic partnership with Corning, one of the world's leaders
in glass science, West has created an integrated system that will help de-risk customers' drug
development and manufacturing processes by providing comprehensive product information in
one DMF and end-to-end support. The Ready Pack system with Corning's Valor® RTU Vials with
SG EZ-fill Technology, offers a new pharmaceutical glass packaging technology. Valor RTU Vials
with SG EZ-fill Technology pharmaceutical packaging helps to enhance the storage and delivery
of drugs, provide more reliable access to medicines essential to public health, and optimize
production efficiency. This purpose-built pharmaceutical glass is specifically designed to address
the challenges of today's manufacturing operations.
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