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In the latest installment of our video series, West on the Road, we travel across the Atlantic to our manufacturing facility in Eschweiler, Germany. There we meet Manager of Process Engineering Martin Rothstein, who says he’s impressed at how often he has encountered West products in his private life, whether visiting a family member in the hospital or during a vaccination appointment for one of his two small children.
Rothstein and the teams at the Eschweiler facility produce high-value pharmaceutical packaging products, turning materials into high-quality elastomeric stoppers, plungers and other components for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. With the biopharmaceutical industry experiencing a shift toward patient-centered, quality care, it is increasingly important to maintain strict manufacturing processes to decrease risk. With this in mind, Rothstein explains that for many customers, it’s important to work with a provider such as West that manufacturers all of the various packaging components for a drug product under one roof, ensuring minimal risk.
The teams at Eschweiler have a long history of providing high-quality components; they possess a deep knowledge of the production process and are able to provide the right support to the customers to help them improve patient care around the world. Check out this new video to learn more about the work being done at West’s Eschweiler facility and visit our Careers page to learn more bout working at West in Germany.
West is committed to the safe and efficient delivery of drug products to patients. Key to this is not only staying abreast of industry developments, but also being prepared to help customers address them. This is a focus of the Integrated Solutions platform.
West has recently collaborated with a research team at the University of Washington (UW) led by Professor Shyam Gollakota to develop a wearable device to detect and reverse an opioid overdose.
Patrick Curran<sup>1</sup>, Vinod Vilivalam<sup>1</sup>, Suzanne Kuiper<sup>2</sup> and Derek Duncan<sup>2<br></sup><sup>1</sup>West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. and <sup>2</sup>Lighthouse Instruments B.V.<p>An increasing number of pharmaceuticals including vaccines, stem cells and proteins require cold storage to maintain efficacy prior to use. However, the ability to maintain container closure integrity (CCI) during cold storage is not completely understood. </p>
Lyophilization removes water from a drug product through three phases: freezing, primary drying or sublimation, and secondary drying or desorption. To begin the process, the drug product is frozen and then placed under a vacuum, which allows the ice to change from solid to vapor without passing through a liquid phase.
The traditional way to package injectable drugs is to place them in a stoppered vial. The stopper is typically held in place with an aluminum ferrule that is called a seal. The vial seal is crimped onto the vial and not only serves to keep the stopper secured to the vial and the <a href="/zh-cn/blog/2018/february/minimize-microbial-contamination-with-flip-off-seals">vial contents sterile<sup>i</sup></a> but also protects the injection site on the stopper and provides a means of demonstrating lack of tampering.
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