Quality Performance of Advanced Cyclic Olefin Plastic Prefillable Syringes

Tibor Hlobik, Director, Prefillable Solutions and Technologies Mike Gills, Customer Technical Support Process Engineer Growth in biopharmaceutical therapeutics is leading innovation with prefillable syringe systems. These complex sensitive drug products require highly inert primary packaging materials for improved stability and delivery in perfect quality for reduced safety risk. This poster will provide a quality comparison [...]

Schaefers to Speak at Prefilled Syringe Conference – Jan. 18-19, 2012

West’s Mike Schaefers, Vice President, Marketing Europe, will present “Next Generation Quality Syringe Components and Systems” at the 4th Annual European Prefilled Syringes Conference.  The conference will be held in London on January 18-19, 2012. Customer expectations related to quality, functionality and compatibility of syringe components and systems are steadily increasing.  As trends toward home [...]

An Alternative to Current Sterilized Plungers for Glass Syringes

The use of steam has been the preferred technique to sterilize components for sterile parenteral applications.  Steam is the most common method of sterilization for vial stoppers and related components.  However, in the case of plungers for prefillable applications, gamma irradiation has been the historic standard throughout the industry for sterilization of the elastomeric components, [...]