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GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare's broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases, and other conditions earlier. Its vision for the future is to enable a new "early health" model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $15 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 45,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit its website at www.gehealthcare.com

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Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineered solutions for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. The leadership is the result of the commitment for expertise, product innovation, pursuit of quality, speed-to-market and global service network.

The biopharmaceutical portfolio further emphasizes Alfa Laval’s dedication to modular process solutions for unit operations and key components such as high-speed separators, compact heat exchangers, pumps, valves, fittings, tank cleaning equipment, and membranes.

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The NEUMO Ehrenberg group, a diversified multi-national organization headquartered in Germany, was founded by Senator Henry Ehrenberg in 1947. Over the last decade, the Group has become a leading manufacturer for worldwide Biopharmaceutical process fittings and components. With its three leading companies, NEUMO, VNE and EGMO, the group has developed a worldwide distribution network supporting major Biopharmaceutical multinational accounts. The NEUMO Ehrenberg Group's synergy and strategy toward the Biopharmaceutical sectors provide customer with innovation, all around quality and efficiency. Through our Group's volunteer participation in leading standards organization, we are actively involved in shaping the future for a cleaner, safer and more productive workplace in the Biopharmaceutical Processing Industry.

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Endress+Hauser - Everything from one source

Consultation, support and maintenance of measurement and automation systems for the Life Sciences Industries. Endress+Hauser is a Swiss family enterprise with more than 7,000 employees serving customers in 37 countries world-wide. As a solutions provider the company has offered a wide selection of products and services for all process automation industries for over 50 years.

Excellent products in relation to performance and price, as well as future-oriented services enhance the competitiveness of our customers to the highest degree of quality, safety and efficiency. Endress+Hauser sales and service companies as well as all production sites have been certified according to ISO9000 and the respective local manufacturing standards. Endress+Hauser stands for continuity, industry-specific know-how and longterm customer relations.

You can demand more from us because we provide complete systems. We offer a host of proven and comprehensive solutions, particularly in the area of Life Sciences, which help you lower your costs and increase the efficiency of your plant.

SUPPORTING SPONSOR

ROPLAN specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of Mechanical Shaft Seals and Aseptic Process Equipment.

Our magnetically driven mixer, STERIMIXER features a seal-less design that eliminates any risk of contamination while providing efficient mixing. Its patented design assures high CIP/SIP performance and allows for low level mixing.

Our radial diaphragm valve, STERIVALVE, features a zero dead leg design and it is available as tank outlet or process valves (1/2"-3"). Diaphragms are available in silicone, EPDM and PTFE. Actuators are stainless steel, manual or pneumatic.

Our hygienic clamp pad, STERIFLANGE, provides a flushed connection for instruments or other devices mounted on a vessel. All our components are supplied with all required documentation needed for validation purposes.
Roplan is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company.

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION

SwedenBIO is the national organization for the life science industry in Sweden and is a private non-profit organization. Its main objective is to improve industry conditions and support business development among its 160 member companies. Learn more at www.swedenbio.com

EXHIBITORS

Advanced Couplings Ltd. Specialist engineering company designing & manufacturing stainless steel tube connections for the Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Food industries. European market leaders for clamp design, building an enviable reputation for the supply of innovative and precision made quality components. Standard product range stocked includes : Certified ferrules & pressure rated clamps to all the major European & US standards, FDA / USP Class VI certified gaskets, Inline hygienic sight glasses, adaptors, hosetails and all other ancillary items associated within the industry. ACL has the flexibility to manufacture non-standard components in exotic materials, all available with short lead times to meet customer specifications.

Since it's inception in 1996, Aquasyn's goal has been to break new ground, not retrace the steps of others. Our extensive process engineering and manufacturing experience has enabled us to provide the dynamic biotech and pharmaceutical markets with standard, as well as customized, valves and associated components which are highly innovative and of uncompromising quality.

Aquasyn does not just offer an industrial diaphragm valve that has been converted to meet industry requirements, but products which are conceived and executed specifically to meet the needs of the bio-pharmaceutical industry. Our proprietary bonnet design, Ultraz® high performance diaphragm, the Valbow® and Sample Bottle Assembly are just a few of the many standard products developed by Aquasyn to resolve unique process problems. We are committed to accommodate your ideas like no other high purity valve company can. It's no wonder our customers consist of the biggest names in the industry.

Arkema is a world-class producer of industrial chemicals, including acrylics, PMMA, thiochemicals, fluorochemicals, and hydrogen peroxide and of performance products like technical polymers, specialty chemical organic peroxides, additives, urea formaldehyde resins and agrochemicals. Arkema is a leading producer in most of its product lines.

For over 16 years ASEPCO has led the way producing high quality, innovative new products. Our Valves are designed to be reliable, CIP/SIP, and carry our extreme guarantee for quality and performance. They assemble with a sanitary clamp, require no tools and never leak, reducing maintenance cost by 85%.
We hired a rocket scientist to help design our new Hydrodynamic Sampler so you don't have to be one to use it. Our PolyMixer, machined in America from solid bar stock, is designed for easy, accurate installation and can be customized to fit any mixing need.

ASEPCO Valves and Mixers don't add complications. Instead, they are proven to simplify maintenance and reduce downtime. And, they keep on saving money every year they are in use. Browse our web site - created by good humored engineers for your edification and amusement.

Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), a global biotechnology leader with leading products and capabilities in oncology, neurology and immunology, is committed to transforming scientific discovery into advances in healthcare. The company's core capabilities include drug discovery, research, development, biomanufacturing, and a global commercial infrastructure.

Biogen Idec pursues the creativity of science with passion and discipline. For more than 25 years, the company has grown through the discovery, development and commercialization of its own innovative products and through strategic alliances.

BioPure Technology manufacture and supply high precision sterile and non-sterile disposable bioprocessing flow path components, including sanitary plastic hose barbs/hose tails to tri-clamp adaptors, Bio-clamps, valves, adapters and silicone tube.

• BioPure provides sterile, individually-packed components for GMP-compliant production
• Manufactures all components from USP Class VI polymerics
• Produces plastic hygienic disposable devices that are specifically designed for biopharmaceutical and high-tech manufacturing environments
• Provides systems in any level of complexity: from simple double-ended tube, to complex filtration and bag manifolds; from 1 litre to 10,000 litres
• Provides you with a software tool so that a fully-customised design is a five-minute exercise on a PC
• Provides systems ready for use in GMP-compliant bioprocessing; assembled entirely from USP Class VI natural polypropylene and platinum-cured silicone tube
• BioPure aim to simplify your production operations, lower your costs of GMP Pharma manufacturing, and reduce your process validation
  

Blue Mountain Quality Resources, the validated leader in regulatory asset management, has been developing technologically advanced software applications for life science companies since 1989. Designed for how work is done, these solutions improve compliance and enhance productivity with built-in flexibility to satisfy the unique needs of FDA-regulated companies.

Blue Mountain Regulatory Asset Manager® is a comprehensive, integrated, browser-based solution designed to enable the collaboration of maintenance, calibration and validation personnel. It allows asset owners, technicians, and quality managers to work together to maintain assets and processes in a controlled and validated state. At the same time, the software reflects the reality that calibration, maintenance, and quality personnel each have their own unique requirements and ways of working with assets. Therefore, no group needs to compromise on their productivity.

Blue Mountain can further improve information flow and streamline business processes for its customers by integrating its products with a company’s other enterprise applications, including enterprise resource planning, document management, inventory management, purchasing and laboratory information management systems. Customers and ERP vendors like SAP have increasingly come to rely on these integrations to complete their enterprise-wide solutions.

Companies that outsource all or part of the implementation and validation of the software to Blue Mountain Quality Resources know their costs upfront, gain access to a broad range of experience without diverting internal resources, and realize greater benefits from the software system. Our comprehensive services range from single-site software implementation, training, and validation to global, multi-site turnkey packages with integration to other enterprise systems.

Burkert Fluid Control Systems is a global system solution provider of the most reliable and innovative means utilizing; microfluidic valves, sensors, process valves, pneumatic actuation, controllers and solenoid valves. Burkert Fluid Control Systems provides the following markets custom fluid control systems; medical equipment, biotech, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, water treatment, semiconductor and general industrial processing.

Crane Process Flow Technologies
Saunders custom-designed HC4 Bio-Block valves replace welded clusters, manifolds and valve/fittingcombinations and offer the most compact, minimum
dead leg design for optimum process intergrity.

Dockweiler has been a partner of the industry since 1955 and has developed from a trading company to a leading supplier of tube systems worldwide. Dockweiler’s stainless steel tube programs are considered today to be products of the highest technical standard of surface and purity and are widely specified by the planning companies and end users.

In order to meet the increasing standards of the pharmaceutical industry and the growing demands of biotechnology, Dockweiler designed their product lines safetron, weldtron and bpe-direct which fast became new points of reference for the market.

Pressure on time and costs increase steadily while demands on quality intensify and become more complex. Dockweiler’s modern production facilities for the manufacture of CIP lances, manifolds and other special components (acc. to customer drawings) provide time and cost saving solutions of an economic dimension. The customer’s applications determine the quality which may range from industrial standards to electropolished and clean room cleaned.

Today Dockweiler is a privately owned global corporation with highly qualified teams in sales, engineering and quality assurance who work closely with the global players of the pharmaceutical, semiconductor and automotive industries.

California based Finesse leads the way in developing new measurement and control technologies, in order to enable the transition to single-use systems, bring new capabilities to existing bioreactor platforms, and harmonize global bio-process information transfer. Our current product family provides comprehensive measurement and control solutions for upstream processes in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

Fujikin Incorporated, founded in 1930, is recognized as a global leader in the manufacture of fluid and gas automatic control equipment, specialized control units, as well as ultra high purity valves and fittings.? Fujikin offers ASME BPE version weirless diaphragm valve. The weirless diaphragm valve does not require re-torquing up to 100,000 cycles of steam service, and has big advantage for vacuum service, and slurry and/or viscous fluid services.

GETINGE is a leading global provider of equipment and systems to customers within health care, extended care and pharmaceutical industries/laboratories.
Equipment, services and technologies for infection control, operating theatres, patient hygiene, patient handling and wound care are supplied to customers throughout the world.

Georg Fischer Piping Systems. The utilization of Thermoplastic Materials of Construction in the Bio Process and Life Science Industries has now blossomed to a necessity.

Advanced Thermoplastics are necessary for the containment, dispensing and delivery of High Purity Process Fluids. Georg Fischer as a world leader in the production of plastic systems comes to the fore front to meet the demands of the Bio Process Industries.

Georg Fischer has over 25 years experience in the manufacture of complete systems that meet the demand of High Purity Industries and processes. Industries such as Pharmaceutical, Bio Tech, Semiconductor and other Life Science Critical applications all rely on +GF+ Products. These systems include a broad array of components such as Pipes, Fittings Diaphragm Valves, Sample Valves, M&C and ancillary items. GF has proven clean jointing systems (BCF and IR) that will maintain the integrity of your Validated System and process.

You can trust GF to provide pure piping system solutions to all your fluid handling requirements.

Grundfos is one of the world’s leading pump manufacturers with an annual production of approximately 10 million pump units. In addition to pumps and pump systems, Grundfos develops, produces, and sells electric motors and highly advanced electronics that make the pumps “intelligent”, improve their performance and minimise their power consumption.

ITT Pure-Flo offers superior hygienic process components for the global hygienic processing industries (Pharmaceutical, Bioprocessing and Fine Chemical). The Pure-Flo(r) brand is synonymous with the highest quality, precision engineered hygienic diaphragm valves. The Pure-Flo(r) valve line began in 1978 in an effort to extend the Dia-Flo(r) industrial diaphragm valve into a stainless steel valve for high purity hygienic applications. Since that time, ITT Pure-Flo has developed a number of innovative designs. Through both standard and custom designed valve assemblies, ITT Pure-Flo is committed to providing the best quality and value in engineered solutions for your unique flow-control needs.

Kest technology, is an innovative company with long experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Our aim is to provide the pharmaceutical industry with aseptic components with focus on high performance and an user-friendly design.

New technologies influence the development of the next generation of aseptic products to the industry. Kest is dedicated to providing the highest level of technical support, in both components and applications.

Kest-Lock, the patented unique quick snap connection.

The Kest-Lock unites advantages of a traditional TC-clamp with an aseptic tank connection, in a new innovative design. Kest-Lock with the unique quick coupling and the aseptic weld-in flange gives a flush surface inside the tank. It is developed for critical applications where aseptic design, easy and safe handlings are essential, such as SIP/CIP processes.

Kest-Lock is developed with focus on the aseptic demands and user friendliness. The operation of the Kest-Lock requires no tools for connect or disconnect equipment. The design of the snap-rings makes it easy to connect equipment with a safe and simple snap action.

King Lai offers Pharmaceutical Product to be the “BEST IN CLASS” manufacturer of Stainless Steel Flow Control Equipment. We produce highest quality components at competitive prices, delivery schedule, and excellent service. Our products are used for: Food, Dairy, Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Personal Care and Fine Chemical components. All items with permanent and traceable marking of heat number comply with ASME BPE standard. www.king-lai.com.

Nordic Biolabs AB is an agency which supplies products to 4 main areas: Biotechnology, Clinical Diagnostics, Transfusion and Industrial Microbiology. We are one of Sweden’s leading business in product lines within Cell Culture/Fermentation (reagents and instruments), Proteomics, siRNA/RNAi, Microbiology testing (particle counting, air testing etc) and more.

Pall is the leading global provider of filtration, purification and separation technologies to the diverse and rapidly expanding Life Sciences market. Its products are used from the earliest stages of discovery and development of new drugs, through production and delivery of therapies for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

PBM
Manufacturer of ball valves and specialty valves for controlling and automating process lines. Exclusive PBM Adjust-O-Seal allows easy inline maintenance. Sanitary valves available in 2-way, flush tank, diverter port, and multi-port styles, with three different port sizes.

PBM combines specific application requirements with creative engineering and quality manufacturing processes.

Pharmadule is the world-leading supplier of advanced modular production facilities for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Pharmadule has been designing and implementing licensed modular production facilities for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries since 1986. We offer a unique combination of process and validation experience from the pharmaceutical industry, efficient project management and high quality craftsmanship. We focus on giving our clients the advantage by bringing their drug facilities into production faster and on time, assuring predictable first-rate results. We have delivered more than 50 facilities to clients such as Eli Lilly, Merck, Genentech, AstraZeneca, Baxter and Pharmacia.

Sartorius Stedim Biotech is a leading provider of cutting-edge equipment and services for the development, quality assurance and production processes of the biopharmaceutical industry. Its integrated solutions covering fermentation, filtration, purification, fluid management and lab technologies are supporting the biopharmaceutical industry around the world to develop and produce drugs safely, timely and economically. For next generation processes, Sartorius Stedim Biotech focuses on single-use technologies and added-value services to meet the rapidly changing technology requirements of the industry it serves. Strongly rooted in the scientific community and closely allied with customers and technology partners, the company is dedicated to its philosophy of “Turning science into solutions.”

For the past 35 years SAFC Biosciences has been a leading provider of cell culture reagents and services for companies developing and producing biopharmaceuticals using mammalian and insect cell culture methods. SAFC has manufacturing and distribution facilities in the United States, Europe and Asia. Being a truly global organization means we can deliver high quality products on time and help drive the drug pipeline from pre-clinical through to commercialization. Our internal technical support structure enables our customers to continuously develop their processes in order to meet both commercial targets and regulatory requirements.

Spraying Systems Co. is the world's leading manufacturer of industrial spray products, offering more than 87,000 different spray nozzles and accessories. Our nozzles are readily available in thousands of sizes, hundreds of configurations and dozens of materials. And, with 10 manufacturing facilities throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia, we can quickly deliver to customers anywhere in the world.

If you are looking for Vessel Cleaning, Sanitization, Tablet Coating, Spray Drying, or others, for the Biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industry look no further. Spraying Systems Co. designs products in compliance with ASME BPE and can meet customer’s cGMP requirements through new manufacturing and quality systems. We have a wide range of spray solutions that can help you run longer without build-up, control flow rates with better precision, reduce installation and maintenance time from hours to minutes, keep viscous liquids flowing and save on energy.

In addition, we provide engineering and application assistance to help customers optimize their spray applications. Our sales engineers are dedicated specialists in spray technology. Working from 85 sales offices around the world, a local representative will be available to assist you whenever you need help.

www.spray.com Tel: 1.800.95.SPRAY Intl: 1.630.665.5000

Stauff Hi-Clean hangers offer a complete range of stainless, polypropylene and santoprene hangers for pipe and tube up to 8". The patented Hi-Clean stainless product conforms to the design principles of BPE-2002 for cleanability and drainability while designed to allow for pipe adjustment to accommodate slope. The hangers use only FDA compliant materials and 316 stainless hardware, while compatible with temperatures to 204 degrees Celsius. The stainless hangers are equipped with silicone inserts used to anchor the pipe, reduce vibration and assist with thermal insulation; or for friction free inserts use our PTFE product that allows the pipes to slide and are used as guides for thermal expansion. Stauff Hi-Clean plastic products offer a durable block style hanger with inserts available in polypropylene and santoprene. Stauff Process Products provides quality manufactured product with global availability and is your complete source for engineered sanitary pipe and tube hangers. For clean and dependable hangers, contact Stauff.

A leading producer of high quality fluid system components, Swagelok offers a broad line of products designed for easy cleaning and drainability. Biopharm components meet current sanitary standards and include BPE series fittings, DW series weir-style diaphragm valves and orbital welding systems, and complete engineered solutions and technology advancing products such as TS series fittings and DR series radial diaphragm valves.

Winter Technologies offers stainless steel tubing and fittings in 316L stainless steel, 304L stainless steel, 6 Moly, such as AL6XN and 254SMO, Hastelloy and copper in Imperial, metric and DIN sizes for the biotech, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, hospital and other hygienic industries. We specialize in CFOS (Cleaned For Oxygen Service), MIL spec cleaning, and other cleaning of your products or our own. Outsource your cleaning needs to us. We clean and sell pipe, tube, fittings for special service.

At W. L. Gore & Associates, our products are designed to be the highest quality in their class and revolutionary in their effect. We resolutely live up to our product promises, and our associates address technical challenges with innovative, reliable solutions.

Today, our enterprise is comprised of approximately 8,000 associates in more than 45 locations around the world. Annual revenues top $2 billion. Our fluoropolymer products provide innovative solutions throughout industry, in next-generation electronics, for medical products, and with high-performance fabrics. We've repeatedly been named among the "100 Best Companies to Work for in America," by FORTUNE magazine, and our culture is a model for contemporary organizations seeking growth by unleashing creativity and fostering team-work.

We take our reputation for product leadership seriously, continually delivering new products and better solutions to the marketplaces of the world.

Zotefoams will exhibit T-TubesTM an advanced insulation system specifically developed for stainless steel process lines in clean environments. T-Tubes require no jacketing and have a temperature range of -50°C to 155°C (-58°F to 311°F). With a wall thickness of only 1/4" (6.35 mm) they save space and allow for insulating areas that cannot be covered using existing methods. Installation is easy and fast with custom moulded fittings and an overlapping self-adhering tape. T-Tubes are the only insulation in the world that is compliant with Factory Mutual (FM) Approvals 4910 standard for cleanroom materials. They have also successfully completed FM's 4924 Pipe Chase Flammability Test. T-Tubes are made from Kynar®PVDF based, high-purity Zotek®F foams.