SP Scientific, and Praxair
Inc., headquartered in Danbury, CT, are pleased to announce the expansion of
their collaborative relationship to commercialize Praxair's ControLyoTM
Nucleation on Demand Technology.
The original agreement, signed in October 2010, gave SP Scientific the
exclusive, global rights to commercialize the technology on Development
Lyophilizers <1.0 m. The Praxair ControLyo
TM Technology was implemented on SP
Scientific's Lyostar 3 Freeze Dryer in December 2010. The expansion of the
agreement allows SP Scientific to also equip its clinical, pilot and production
dryers (Benchmark series and Hull Production Dryers) with the ControLyo
TM
Technology. Additionally, the agreement calls for the transfer of technology to
allow SP Scientific to retrofit existing Pilot and Production units in the
field, regardless of the original manufacturer.
"This is a major step in SP's strategy of technology leadership in
lyophilization," states Chuck Grant, CEO for SP Scientific. "Given
the ability to offer the technology from development through scale-up to
production, SP Scientific is ideally positioned to be the supplier of choice
for ControLyo
TM Technology."
"Praxair is pleased to extend our existing agreement to cover the full
range of lyophilizers offered to the industry by SP Scientific, " said
Rich Jarrett, Global Director of Marketing and Business Development for
Praxair. "Praxair's ControLyo
TM Technology has seen quick industry adoption
with SP Scientific's Lyostar 3 FreezeDryer and we look forward to providing the
industry with nucleation control at all production levels."
ControLyo
TM Technology offers many benefits to the pharmaceutical industry
including: vial-to-vial uniformity, reduced cycle times, reduced protein
aggregation and better conformance to the Food and Drug Administration's
Process Analytical Technology (PAT) initiative.
SP Scientific is a leading manufacturer of laboratory-to-production scale freeze dryers /
lyophilizers, centrifugal evaporators and concentrators, thermal management
system and glassware washers. The company sells its products under well-known
brands including Hull, VirTis®, FTS Systems
TM, Genevac®, and National-Hotpack®.
SP Scientific has ISO 9001:2008 registered production facilities in the USA and
Europe.
Praxair Inc. is the largest industrial gases company in North and South
America, and one of the largest worldwide, with 2011 sales of $11 billion. The
company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty
gases, and high-performance surface coatings. Praxair products, services and
technologies are making our planet more productive by bringing efficiency and
environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries, including aerospace,
chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing,
metals and others.