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Single-Use Flexible Containment
A commitment to best-in-class customer experience
As your partner in development and commercialization, we understand the need for business continuity. We have invested in a global, networked manufacturing approach that provides seamless redundancy and supply assurance, while lowering lead times and providing an excellent customer experience. Underpinned by our superior film quality and product design, engineered for industry-leading quality and integrity to support your accelerated manufacturing. Adopt our network today and experience benefits based on your choice and preferences.
Our multi-tiered strategy to improve single-use supply chain resiliency
Current networked sites:
Our expanded single-use manufacturing network totals nearly 200,000 ft2 of clean room space across these sites:
- Logan, Utah
- Cramlington, United Kingdom
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Joo Koon, Singapore
- Suzhou, China
Future networked sites:
- Millersburg, Pennsylvania
- Matamoros, Mexico
We’ve created the global standard component library (GSCL) for use in the design of single-use products using pre-qualified components with standard claims that are stocked within the network. The GSCL encompasses our most widely used components and have been carefully selected based on their board applicability and universal relevance.
GSCL key characteristics:
- Qualified for network manufacturing
- Stocked within the network
- Enable creation of assemble to order (ATO) network designs
- Carry consistent, standard claims including sterility, endotoxin, bioburden, and particulate
Product and quality harmonization
The creation of a manufacturing network is dependent on true manufacturing redundancy, with the ability to seamlessly shift demand to efficiently utilize available capacity. To that end, each facility within our SUT network has been harmonized with respect to product attributes, manufacturing processes, and quality management systems (QMSs) to ensure that no matter where a BPC or fluid transfer assembly is manufactured, it meets the same quality and manufacturing standards.
Advanced single-use manufacturing
In addition to harmonizing our sites, we have made advancements to our BPC and fluid transfer assembly manufacturing processes shift the complexity within the manufacturing steps as far downstream in the process as possible. This allows us to provide the same customized product while also helping to minimize lead times and manufacturing waste.
Current networked sites:
Our expanded single-use manufacturing network totals nearly 200,000 ft2 of clean room space across these sites:
- Logan, Utah
- Cramlington, United Kingdom
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Joo Koon, Singapore
- Suzhou, China
Future networked sites:
- Millersburg, Pennsylvania
- Matamoros, Mexico
We’ve created the global standard component library (GSCL) for use in the design of single-use products using pre-qualified components with standard claims that are stocked within the network. The GSCL encompasses our most widely used components and have been carefully selected based on their board applicability and universal relevance.
GSCL key characteristics:
- Qualified for network manufacturing
- Stocked within the network
- Enable creation of assemble to order (ATO) network designs
- Carry consistent, standard claims including sterility, endotoxin, bioburden, and particulate
Product and quality harmonization
The creation of a manufacturing network is dependent on true manufacturing redundancy, with the ability to seamlessly shift demand to efficiently utilize available capacity. To that end, each facility within our SUT network has been harmonized with respect to product attributes, manufacturing processes, and quality management systems (QMSs) to ensure that no matter where a BPC or fluid transfer assembly is manufactured, it meets the same quality and manufacturing standards.
Advanced single-use manufacturing
In addition to harmonizing our sites, we have made advancements to our BPC and fluid transfer assembly manufacturing processes shift the complexity within the manufacturing steps as far downstream in the process as possible. This allows us to provide the same customized product while also helping to minimize lead times and manufacturing waste.
Standardize across your workflow to help minimize risk and enable maximized efficiency
Gibco media and process liquids and buffers are packaged in the same high-quality film used for Thermo Scientific bioprocess bags and tubing assemblies.
Nashville, Tennessee: A new addition to the single-use manufacturing global network
The Nashville site joins the ranks of our other single-use manufacturing sites that cumulatively provide nearly 200,000 square feet of clean room space. This state-of-the art facility will be one of the world’s largest manufacturing sites of its kind and will more than double the company’s single-use manufacturing capacity, allowing us to harmonize manufacturing globally for our customers. This means that we will have the capability to utilize equivalent processes and procedures to manufacture single-use products of consistent quality, form, fit and function worldwide.
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