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Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), a global biotechnology leader
with leading products and capabilities in oncology, neurology and
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Amgen
is a leading human therapeutics company in the biotechnology industry.
For 25 years, the company has tapped the power of scientific discovery
and innovation to dramatically improve people’s lives.
Amgen pioneered the development of novel products based on advances
in recombinant DNA and molecular biology and launched the biotechnology
industry’s first blockbuster medicines. Today, as a Fortune
500 company serving millions of patients, Amgen continues to be an
entrepreneurial, science-driven enterprise dedicated to helping people
fight serious illness.
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SUPPORTING
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Commissioning
Agents, Inc. is the premier provider of integrated commissioning/validation
services, including factory inspections, construction quality assurance
oversight, start-up/commissioning, and IQ/OQ/PQ.
Aber
Instruments offers a wealth of experience with all aspects
of biomass monitoring and has rapidly gained recognition for its
expertise in the development of instrumentation for biotechnology
and brewing. The company's expertise in biomass measurement is
supplemented by close links with the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
where Professor Douglas Kell (now at The University of Manchester,
and colleagues have extensive experience.
To date, Aber Instruments has supplied over 300 systems world-wide
for the on-line measurement of viable biomass. Its Yeast Monitor
is now established as the standard for on-line yeast concentration
measurement in breweries and international companies such as Anheuser
Busch, Miller Brewing, Interbrew, Coors, Guinness, Heineken and
Labatts have benefited from using the instrument. The Biomass
monitor is recognised as the online insrument for viable cell
mass by the worlds leading pharmaceutical companies such as GlaxoSmithkline,
Centocor, Sandoz, Eli Lilly and Genzyme.
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|  Advanced
Couplings Ltd. Specialist engineering company designing
& manufacturing stainless steel tube connections for the
Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Food industries. European market
leaders for clamp design, building an enviable reputation for
the supply of innovative and precision made quality components.
Standard product range stocked includes : Certified ferrules
& pressure rated clamps to all the major European &
US standards, FDA / USP Class VI certified gaskets, Inline hygienic
sight glasses, adaptors, hosetails and all other ancillary items
associated within the industry. ACL has the flexibility to manufacture
non-standard components in exotic materials, all available with
short lead times to meet customer specifications.
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 AdvantaPure®
manufactures sanitary hose, tubing, fittings, assemblies, and
silicone injection molded components such as manifolds, stoppers,
and True Unions. Hose materials include silicone, fluoropolymer,
EPDM and nitrile. Hoses can be reinforced with polyester braid,
mandrel-wrapped or wire-reinforced for increased pressure capabilities.
Silicone Peristaltic Pump tubing is available with superior pump
life as compared to standard unreinforced silicone tubing. Custom
fabrication services are also available on all products. AdvantaLabel®
hose identification solutions, such as silicone-encased labeling,
laser-etched collars, and color-striped silicone tubing, are available.
P*E*T Process Equipment Tracking™ and the Hose Track™
Hose Lifecycle Analysis System use RFID tags to uniquely identify
individual process components and hose assemblies. These systems
track wear-related events that contribute to product failure and
lead to the possible risk of a lost batch, as well as replace
antiquated logbooks, allowing for more efficient processes. A
revolutionary new technology now available exclusively from AdvantaPure
is GammaTag™, a gamma-sterilizable RFID solution. GammaTag
can be attached to healthcare equipment and medical devices, as
well as single use/disposable products requiring Gamma sterilization
before use with no risk of data loss. AdvantaPure also offers
single use/disposables solutions such as tubing with molded Y's,
T's, mini and standard Tri-Clamps®, stoppers, and sealers.
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 Allegheny
Bradford Corporation is an ASME code (U, UM, R, CE/PED, CRN)
shop specializing in custom stainless steel and higher alloy process
equipment specifically designed for pharmaceutical, biotech, and
ultrapure applications. Stand-alone process equipment includes
ASME BPE compliant shell and tube heat exchangers, custom designed
vessels and tanks, filter housings, including our patent pending
Opti-Clean filter housing exclusively featuring full drainability
and complete CIP coverage. Value-added engineered systems include
prepackaged heat exchangers, tanks and vessels, filter housings,
sanitary pumps and modular process systems. Mechanical polishing,
electropolishing, equipment refurbishment, modification or repair
services are available in-house or at the jobsite.
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|  Arkema
is a world-class producer of industrial chemicals, including
acrylics, PMMA, thiochemicals, fluorochemicals, and hydrogen
peroxide and of performance products like technical polymers,
specialty chemical organic peroxides, additives, urea formaldehyde
resins and agrochemicals. Arkema is a leading producer in most
of its product lines.
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 For
over 16 years ASEPCO has led the way producing high quality, innovative
new products. Our Valves are designed to be reliable, CIP/SIP,
and carry our extreme guarantee for quality and performance. They
assemble with a sanitary clamp, require no tools and never leak,
reducing maintenance cost by 85%. We
hired a rocket scientist to help design our new Hydrodynamic
Sampler so you don't have to be one to use it. Our PolyMixer,
machined in America from solid bar stock, is designed for easy,
accurate installation and can be customized to fit any mixing
need.
ASEPCO
Valves and Mixers don't add complications. Instead, they are
proven to simplify maintenance and reduce downtime. And, they
keep on saving money every year they are in use. Browse
our web site - created by good humored engineers for your
edification and amusement.
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 BioPharm
International is the #1 magazine devoted to the science, strategies
and business trends shaping the global landscape for biotherapeutics.
BioPharm's focus on applied technologies utilized in biopharmaceutical
development and its focus on the business forces driving the industry's
growth has attracted a BPA-qualified, global audience of 29,200.
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 BioProcess
International provides the biotechnology industry with monthly,
peer-reviewed information necessary to successfully drive products
through the biopharmaceutical, biovaccine and biodiagnostic development
and manufacture process. BPI's circulation consists of 30,000
mid-to-upper managers working in all phases of the biotherapeutic
development and manufacturing process in the United States, Europe
and Canada.
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|  Broadley
Technologies Ltd is the European office for its US parent
company Broadley-James Corporation. Based in the UK, Broadley
Technologies is a fully operational sales, support and warehouse
facility.
Broadley-James
Corporation manufactures steam sterilisable and autoclavable
pH and dissolved oxygen sensors and the BioNet Bioreactor Control
System, a cost effective solution for the cell culture and microbial
bioreactor suite, it has the ability to network and control
up to 20 Bioreactors with one Controller. In addition Broadley
Technologies also distributes the Fogale nanotech On-Line Biomass
Monitoring System, measuring viable cell density by capacitance
and the Keofitt sterile sampling valve.
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|  Burkert
Fluid Control Systems is a global system solution provider
of the most reliable and innovative means utilizing; microfluidic
valves, sensors, process valves, pneumatic actuation, controllers
and solenoid valves. Burkert Fluid Control Systems provides
the following markets custom fluid control systems; medical
equipment, biotech, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, water
treatment, semiconductor and general industrial processing.
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|  Everything
from one source - Endress+Hauser
Consultation, support and maintenance of measurement and automation
systems for the Life Sciences Industries. Endress+Hauser is
a Swiss family enterprise with more than 7,000 employees serving
customers in 37 countries world-wide. As a solutions provider
the company has offered a wide selection of products and services
for all process automation industries for over 50 years.
Excellent products in relation to performance and price, as
well as future-oriented services enhance the competitiveness
of our customers to the highest degree of quality, safety and
efficiency. Endress+Hauser sales and service companies as well
as all production sites have been certified according to ISO9000
and the respective local manufacturing standards. Endress+Hauser
stands for continuity, industry-specific know-how and longterm
customer relations.
You can demand more from us because we provide complete systems.
We offer a host of proven and comprehensive solutions, particularly
in the area of Life Sciences, which help you lower your costs
and increase the efficiency of your plant.
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 Based
in Columbus, Ohio, EWI
(Edison Welding Institute) is North America’s leading
engineering and technology organization dedicated to welding and
materials joining. EWI’s staff provides materials joining
assistance, contract research, consulting services, and training
to over 3,300 member company locations representing world-class
leaders in the aerospace, automotive, defense, energy, government,
heavy manufacturing, medical, and electronics industries. EWI
staff will be on hand at the ASME Bioprocess Technology event
to discuss how they can increase product quality, productivity,
customer satisfaction, and profitability by delivering practical
solutions for critical manufacturing issues.
Materials joining technologies includes welding, brazing, soldering,
and adhesive bonding of metals, ceramics, plastics, and composites
to themselves and to each other. A complete understanding of materials
joining requires a thorough knowledge of processes, materials,
non-destructive evaluation, and design. EWI is capable in each
of these areas. The scale and size of the materials joining EWI
is involved with ranges from microjoining wire thinner than human
hair to welding metal plate several inches thick.
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 Stainless
Steel and Super-Alloy Parts Fluid
Line Technology provides customers with Biopharmaceutical
grade stainless steel parts and Super-Alloy products including,
Heat Exchangers, Bleed and Sample Valves, Thermowells, Dip Tubes,
Spray-Ball Assemblies, Instrument Tees, CPM's, Restricting Orifices,
and Custom Fabrications. Services include, product development,
manufacturing for OEM's, engineering services, skid assembly,
and filtration. Fluid Line's 17,000 -ft2 is located in Chatsworth,
California and is staffed with more than 30 experienced professionals.
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 Fujikin
Incorporated, founded in 1930, is recognized as a global leader
in the manufacture of fluid and gas automatic control equipment,
specialized control units, as well as ultra high purity valves
and fittings. Fujikin's products are used throughout the semiconductor,
aerospace, chemical and electric power generation industries.
For High Purity Products, Fujikin is currently the only company
manufacturing in a Class-1 clean room environment.
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 Garlock
manufactures and supplies the widest range of seals and sealing
systems available world-wide. It has been helping customers efficiently
seal the toughest process fluids in the most demanding applications
for over a century. Now
part of the leading industrial process products group EnPro
Industries Inc. (NYSE:NPO), Garlock Sealing Technologies offers
a product line that includes over 100,000 high-performance sealing
solutions.
Servicing
industries as diverse as paper manufacture and semiconductor
fabrication, and nuclear and food, demands the widest possible
understanding of customer requirements. This is supported by
extensive research and development facilities in several locations
including its Palmyra, New York Headquarters and Pierrelatte
in France.
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 GE
Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies
and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's
broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers
to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological
diseases, and other conditions earlier. Its vision for the future
is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused
on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease
prevention.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion
unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare
employs more than 45,000 people committed to serving healthcare
professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For
more information about GE Healthcare, visit its website at www.gehealthcare.com
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 GETINGE
is a leading global provider of equipment and systems to customers
within health care, extended care and pharmaceutical industries/laboratories.
Equipment,
services and technologies for infection control, operating theatres,
patient hygiene, patient handling and wound care are supplied
to customers throughout the world.
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 ITT
Pure-Flo offers superior hygienic process components for the global
hygienic processing industries (Pharmaceutical, Bioprocessing and Fine
Chemical). The Pure-Flo® brand is synonymous with the highest quality,
precision engineered hygienic diaphragm valves. The Pure-Flo® valve
line began in 1978 in an effort to extend the Dia-Flo® industrial
diaphragm valve into a stainless steel valve for high purity hygienic
applications. Since that time, ITT Pure-Flo has developed a number of
innovative designs. Through both standard and custom designed valve
assemblies, ITT Pure-Flo is committed to providing the best quality
and value in engineered solutions for your unique flow-control needs.
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 J
& J Scientific Products, Inc. is a world leader in the design,
development and manufacture of single use container closures, flexible
manifolds and sampling systems used by the Biopharmaceutical Process
Industry. The company works extensively with companies within the
Biopharmaceutical Industry in the development of critical fluid process
storage, transfer and sampling systems. Featured products include
Bio-simplex™ manifolds and Ez-Top® Container closures.
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 LevTech
provides disposable mixing solutions with proprietary, industry leading
products based upon an intellectual property portfolio of six US and
foreign patents and 22 patent applications pending. LevTech's line of
disposable mixing solutions addresses fluid handling applications in
various industries and particularly in the rapidly growing biopharmaceutical
sector.
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 Purity
Systems, Inc. is the recognized leader in providing independent
third party quality assurance and analytical testing services to microelectronics,
food& beverage, pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, aerospace,
semiconductor, OEM.
Our complete
range of value-added Inspection, Documentation, Testing, Engineering
Services and Procedures ensure the integrity and compliance of High
Purity process systems.
For over
20 years, our Inspection and Analytical Testing technicians, engineers
and documentation specialists have guaranteed the success of High
Purity. With offices and technicians located throughout the United
States, Puerto Rico, and Europe, we provide your project with expertise,
and state-of-the-art equipment and techniques necessary to meet your
specification requirements.
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 Manufacturer
of ball valves and specialty valves for controlling and automating
process lines. Exclusive PBM
Adjust-O-Seal allows easy inline maintenance. Sanitary valves available
in 2-way, flush tank, diverter port, and multi-port styles, with three
different port sizes.
PBM
combines specific application requirements with creative engineering
and quality manufacturing processes.
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 Stedim
Biosystems has more than twenty-five years experience in the design
and manufacture of flexible plastic containers for the world's largest
healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.
We have
pioneered the development of EVA bags for parenteral nutrition and
drug delivery, in addition to developing the first flexible container
systems for biopharmaceutical processing.
Stedim
Biosystems is a global company with facilities in Europe, North America,
and the Far East, and is a fully integrated company from film extrusion
to bag sterilization. We have some of the most modern facilities in
the world for production of pharmaceutical and medical plastic containers
systems.
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 Wave
Europe Pvt. Ltd., a wholly-owned European subsidiary of Wave Biotech
LLC, the inventors of the Wave Bioreactor. Wave Biotech is a research-based
company that develops and manufactures innovative process equipment
for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, with focus on developing
disposable bioprocess equipment for operations traditionally requiring
stainless-steel tanks and piping. Key products, such as the Wave Bioreactor,
Wave Mixer, and Sterile Tube Fuser, feature disposable contact materials
that eliminate cleaning and validation, thereby reducing costs in operations
ranging from cell culture, media preparation, buffer dissolution, thawing
process intermediates to patient-specific cell therapy in hospitals.
These unique, patented, devices can be installed and commissioned rapidly,
drastically reducing the time-to-market for biological products. Our
equipment is in use with hundreds of companies worldwide, both for R&D,
as well as commercial applications.
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 Winter
Technologies offers stainless steel tubing and fittings in 316L
stainless steel, 304L stainless steel, 6 Moly, such as AL6XN and 254SMO,
Hastelloy and copper in Imperial, metric and DIN sizes for the biotech,
pharmaceutical, semiconductor, hospital and other hygienic industries.
We specialize in CFOS (Cleaned For Oxygen Service), MIL spec cleaning,
and other cleaning of your products or our own. Outsource your cleaning
needs to us. We clean and sell pipe, tube, fittings for special service.
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To
become an exhibitor, please complete the
application and send to Jennifer Delda, Program Manager, at fax:
212/591-7143 or email: deldaj@asme.org.
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