Pharmaceutical
Thanks to our materials expertise, analytical capabilities and consultancy services, we are able to work with pharmaceutical manufacturers and those along the supply chain to add value to products, optimise manufacturing routes and solve problems.
From product development to processing support to failure analysis, our services not only include the active pharmaceutical ingredients themselves but also extend to packaging. We also offer claim and patent support, providing independent analysis in patent disputes.
Concept, Prototyping & Materials Formulation
CERAM’s unrivalled knowledge of material formulation and chemical composition analysis makes us uniquely placed to accelerate new product development projects, particularly with regard to controlled-release drugs.
Manufacturing Process Support
We offer quality assurance programs, cleanliness validation and failure analysis for the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. Ensuring product and material consistency, performance and cleanliness and identifying the causes of failures quickly and accurately is vital to any pharmaceutical or pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer.
Failure Analysis
CERAM works closely with manufacturers to identify and solve failures with both pharmaceuticals and packaging (contamination, delamination, disbondments, leaching, printing failures).
Our services include:
Testing and analysis – chemical analysis and a wide range of analytical techniques mean that we can identify the chemical composition of pharmaceuticals, helping us to identify counterfeits and solve contamination issues.
QA/QC – we can batch test products to ensure that quality is consistent, help you to put QA programmes into place and identify and solve product and process issues.
Contamination analysis – contamination of pharmaceutical products or drug delivery devices can lead to fatal consequences whilst staining can be dangerous and aesthetically displeasing.
Cleanliness validation – achieving and maintaining cleanliness throughout the manufacturing process is critical to the pharmaceutical industry. CERAM provides a complete validation service for the pharmaceutical manufacturer, VALIDATA.
Counterfeit drugs detection - we have developed a method of identifying counterfeit tablets by using surface analysis techniques.
Claim and patent support - pharmaceuticals are amongst the most copied and counterfeited materials in the world. We offer independent analysis to provide evidence in patent disputes.
Surface Yellowing of a Drug Tablet upon Light Exposure
ToF-SIMS investigation into tablet discolouration
Crystallite Contamination in a Drug Formulation
Analysis by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry
Cleanliness Validation of Orthopaedic Implants for Joint Replacement Instrumentation Ltd (JRI)
Surface contamination investigation
Development of a Ceramic Coil for DEKEMA Dental Keramiköfen GmbH
Prototyping & materials formulation
Plasma Treatment of Inhaler Cans for Bespak
Investigation of plasma deposition of a surface modifier in inhaler cans
