Analytical and Manufacturing Equipment
PERC offers new drug research and development in a custom designed building utilizing the same cutting-edge technology and equipment routinely employed in current pharmaceutical industry processes, including small-scale production of solid, semi-solid, and liquid dosage forms.
Below is a list of equipment currently in operation at PERC:
Analytical Equipment
API characterization
- TA Instruments Q200 Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
- Q500 Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
- Q5000SA Moisture Sorption Analyzer (MSA/DMS)
- Rigaku Ultima IV Powder X-ray Diffractometer (PXRD)
- Malvern Mastersizer 3000
- Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZS
Chromatography
- Agilent: 6890 GC with head space, FID and ECD
- Agilent 1100 HPLC with Diode Array Detector (2),
- Alltech: Evaporative Light Scattering Detector (ELSD 2000)
- Shimadzu: UFLC HPLC, UHPLC
Spectroscopy and Spectrometry
- Agilent 8354 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
- Thermo Scientific LCQ Fleet 3D Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS)
- Waters Micromass Quattro LC Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS)
- Buck Scientific Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AA)
- Varian Saturn 2000 GC-MS/MS
- Varian 400 MHz NMR
- Foss Near IR XDS Smart Probe
Other Analytical
- Varian VanKel 7020 Dissolution Apparatus
- GE/ Sievers 900 TOC (Total Organic Carbon) Analyzer
- EMD Karl Fischer Moisture Analyzer AQV33
- Olympus BX51 Cross-polarized Light Microscope with Linkam Hot Stage and Pax-it Digital Camera
- SRS OptiMelt 100 Melting Point Apparatus
- Brookfield LV1+ Viscometer
- Ohaus Loss On Drying Balance
- Hanson Research Flodex Powder Flowability Index Test Instrument
- CSC Scientific Sieve Shakers (2)
- PharmaAlliance Tap Density Tester (USP)
- Friabilator Tester(USP)
- Disintegration Tester (USP)
- VanKel Tablet Hardness Tester
- Kaye Validator
Manufacturing Equipment
- Patterson Kelley Twin Shell Yoke Blenders (1 pint to 16 quart)
- KitchenAid: Mixer/Blender
- Glatt Uniglatt Fluid Bed Granulator/Dryer
- Quadro Comil, Model B97
- Bonapace In-cap Hard Shell Capsule Filler
- Rimek 10-Station Tablet Press
- Instrumented 16-Station Manesty Betapress (Main Compression Force and Ejection Force Measurements)
- O’Hara LabCoat BT – Tablet Coating System
- IKA Overhead Mixers
- Branson Sonicator
- Silverson Homogenizer, Model SL2T
- Bee International Mini DeBee Ultra High Pressure Homogenizer
- National Instrument Co. Filamatic Liquid Filler
- Cozzoli Liquid Filler
- Enercon Industries Induction Sealer
- Castle Autoclave
- Primus Autoclave
- Gruenberg Depyrogenation Oven
- FTS Kinetics Lyophilizer
- Brinkmann Instruments Buchi Rotary Evaporator