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At the Single-use Event 2023 suppliers and users meet during the ultimate networking event in the world of bioprocessing, biotechnology and (bio)pharmaceutical manufacturing. The Single-use Event focusses on the technological and product developments in the following areas: Continuous Bioprocessing, Cell Culture Systems & Microbial Systems.
The visitors come to the event to orientate themselves on new products, to network and to attend the speakers program.
Among the visitors are (bio)process technologists, (bio)pharmaceutical scientists, (bio)chemists, life scientists, biotechnologists, process engineers and process managers.
Interview with Key-note Ruud Verstegen: Single-use technology in biopharma manufacturing: one company’s perspective
Ruud Verstegen, process engineer at Byondis, a Nijmegen-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical research and development company, discusses his experience with single-use materials.
Single-use technology – products or solutions that are made from various forms of disposal plastic and intended for one-time use – has emerged as an important solution for biopharmaceutical companies. There are many advantages, but there are also challenges.
10:35 - 11:15 am - Keynote 1
Ruud Verstegen, Byondis: Manufacturing of antibody-drug conjugates using single-use materials, pros and cons
Read the interview with Key-note Ruud Verstegen
The additional Keynotes
Keynote 2: The use of Single use in Large scale Manufacturing – The Hybrid Approach
by John Rook, Process expert MSAT Ibex® Solutions at Lonza. Read more
Keynote 3: Innovation Support and Growth hub - automation and standardization by Tim Jaarsma, Business Development Manager Life Science & Bioprocessing at IMI Adaptas. Read More
Conference and trade fair sponsors 2023
Alfa Laval; AllPAQ; Aseptic group; AVANTOR; Beun – de Ronde; BioSPX; Broadley-James; CLARIPURE; ChemSPX; CPI Biotech; CYTIVA/PALL; Elscolab; Endress+Hauser; Eurofins BioPharma Testing Netherlands; Filtrox; FUJIFILM Irvine Scientific; GEA; Getinge/Applikon Biotechnology; GMPTEC GmbH; Hamilton Bonaduz; HITMA; HOF Sonderanlagenbau GmbH; KROHNE; Kuhner Shaker; Levitronix; M-filter; NOVA Biomedical; Parker Hannifin; RAUMEDIC AG; Repligen; Romynox; SANI membrames; Sanisure; Sonotec; TECNIC; Thermo Fisher Scientific; Watson-Marlow; XYLEM
The theme of Single-Use Event 2023: Compatibility/standardization
Although there are clearly numerous benefits to implementing single-use (SU) technology, there are still some challenges, such as equipment compatibility and lack of standardization.
Every SU producer manufactures their own SU components like bioreactors, sensors and connectors, which do not always fit to components of other producers. That makes it very complex and also logistically challenging for users.
By not standardising across SU system manufacturers it effectively forces the end user to remain within a given SU environment once they make that initial selection decision to go with a particular SU system manufacturer.
Advantages to single use system standardisation include the avoidance of costs for system modification and faster implementation.
If standardised designs are created that are more or less interchangeable from vendor to vendor the potential market for each SU system manufacturer should increase accordingly, and it should also allow cost reduction in terms of producing those items, because they become standardized.