Conference on Prefilled Syringes 2009

The current market for prefilled syringes is in the range of 2 - 2.5 billion units. The growth rate remain at a high level of more than 10% annually due to a number of factors, such as greater medication safety and increased convenience from using a prefillable device. However, there are some challenges and potential threats to syringe and needle supply manufacturers. This conference will feature keynote addresses, presentations, case studies and interactive discussions from development to manufacturing, quality control, supplier issues, regulation and inspection, handling and use of devices. Please be sure to register your participation amongst the industry's elite, for this intensive two-day of learning, networking and exploiting business opportunities.

Key Themes:

• Compact filling line for pre-sterilized syringes with a fully automated bag and tub opener

• Convergence of injectors with prefilled syringes

• Evaluating the importance of packaging testing in prefilled syringes

• Stopper movement, gas bubbles in shipping and improving the container closure integrity of a prefilled syringe

• Why new developments are important in injectable delivery today?

• Potential defects in glass syringes and methods of their optoelectronic detection

• Evaluating the importance of packaging testing in prefilled syringes

• E-beam sterilisation in the prefilled syringes market

• Evaluating factors and recent developments in processing syringe nests

• Overcoming risk mitigation though ready-to-use prefillable syringe systems

• Meeting customer's expectations in delivering prefillable syringes

• Offering a new choice in glass prefilled syringes

• Legislation and regulatory requirements pertaining to packaging in prefilled syringes

Who should attend?

Vice/Presidents, Directors, Heads of:

• Packaging

• Labelling

• Manufacturing

• Product design

• Technical support

• Drug product process development

• Drug device process development

• Pharmaceutical sciences

• Safe medication practice

• Drug discovery & delivery

• Strategic alliances

• Clinical product resourcing

• Supply outsourcing

• Contract management

• Process development

• Investment and venture capital

Target audience - industry:
Operations, Regulatory affairs, Manufacturing, Transportation, Packaging, Quality assurance/control

Agenda

Day 1

09:00 Registration and refreshments

09:30 Chair's opening remarks

09:40 Compact filling line for pre-sterilised syringes with a fully automated bag and tub opener

• Reducing the need for manual interference minimises risk of contamination

• How can product filling, closing and extraction be completely reproducible?

• Focusing on pre-defined, secure and completely reproducible processes

Klaus Ullherr
Packaging Technology, Product Manager
Robert Bosch Packaging

10:20 Convergence of injectors with prefilled syringes

• How convergence of injectors has transformed the prefilled syringe into an advanced drug delivery system

• Addressing the uncertainties and risks of convergence

• Future trends and issues

Richard Law
Principal Engineer
Amgen

11:00 Morning refreshment & networking session

11.20 Quality control challenges for prefilled syringes

• Analysing the major quality challenges for syringe filling

• Assuring drug product potency, identity, safety, and stability

• Identifying and analysing the most challenging aspects of quality control

• How to ensure container/closure integrity during and after filling and terminal sterilisation?

Denis Rigolet
Senior Director Quality Central and Eastern Europe & Croatia
Teva Pharmaceuticals

12:00 Evaluating the importance of packaging testing in prefilled syringes

• Analysing package integrity issues and the importance of package integrity inspection

• Highlighting numerous advantages of non-destructive package testing

• How it can be a beneficial quality and process control tool in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries for package quality inspection?

Dale Charlton

Director Business Development

Optima Group Pharma

12:40 Lunch

13:40 Analysing anti-counterfeiting strategies for prefilled syringes

• Assessing counterfeiting risk posed to prefilled syringes in European countries

• Case studies illustrating cutting edge anti-counterfeiting practices

• Security technology strategies and secure business practices

Andrew Fry
Director
Team Consulting*

14:20 Potential defects in glass syringes and methods of their optoelectronic detection

• Analysing potential defect patterns on prefillable glass syringes

• Addressing potential dimensional deviations and attributive defects of prefillable syringes

• Challenges of defect detection how quality level that can be achieved

• Available options for 100% optoelectronic control

Alfred Breunig
Director Technical Customer Support
MGlas

15:00 Afternoon refreshments & networking session

15:20 Panel discussion: Why new developments are important in injectable delivery today?

Panellists will identify and understand the growing importance of injectable drug delivery on self-administration, drug formulations, drug-device development, and therapeutic treatment protocols.

If you want to submit a question, please email it to info@bharatbook.com

16:00 Innovations in production for prefilled syringes

• Analysing the developments that are boosting the appeal of prefilled syringes

• How advances in syringe technology are enhancing the benefits of a prefilled syringe?

• Successful case studies

Laurent Barrelle
Director
Beckton Dickinson

16:40 Chair's closing remarks

16:50 Networking drinks

Take your discussions further and build new relationships in a relaxed and informal setting.

Day 2

09:00 Coffee and registration

09:30 Chair's opening remarks

09:40 Stopper movement, gas bubbles in shipping and improving the container closure integrity of a prefilled syringe

• Reducing the size of air bubbles inside syringes or eliminating them totally

• How prefilled syringes have become the container of choice for parenteral drug delivery

• Evaluating the techniques of bubble-free filling

• Eliminating stopper movement when syringes are exposed to reduced atmospheric pressure.

Shawn Kinney
President
Hylauron

10:20 E-beam sterilisation in the prefilled syringes market

• The role of electron beam irradiation in the prefilled syringe production process

• Latest developments in e-beam technology

• Integration with high speed filling lines

Phillip Treacher
Process/Mechanical Department Manager
Project Management Group

11:00 Morning refreshment & networking session

11:20 Evaluating factors and recent developments in processing syringe nests

• Overview of key drivers behind the development of syringe nests

• Moving from bulk syringes to presterilised, nested syringe format

• Analysing special requirements in filling and closing of a syringe

• How systems can be designed to allow better filling performance and more reliable feeding of the plungers?

Michael Lammel
Head of Parenterals Production
Roche*

12:00 Interaction needle, silicone & prefilled syringe systems

• Lab study 1: Interaction between needle itself, needle siliconisation and needle shield

• Lab study 2: Interaction between plunger and container

• Comparison of 10 different rubber formulations

Alphons Fakler
Manager Product and Process Development
Schott AG

12:40 Lunch

13:40 Panel Discussion:
The role of partnerships in developing and delivering prefilled syringe products

Panellists will assess the importance of pharma-device alliances and design partnerships on prefilled syringe products. If you want to submit a question, please email it to info@bharatbook.com

14:20 Meeting customer's expectations in delivering Prefillable syringes

• Looking for good, reliable and stable manufactures of syringes

• Offering consistent quality manufacturing capabilities and components

• Regulatory, technical support and timely deliveries

Raul Soikes
Director of Program Management
Baxter BioPharma Solutions

15:00 Afternoon refreshments & networking session

15:20 Offering an alternative choice for ready-to-use glass prefillable syringes

• Syringes for biotech drugs on siliconisation

• Ideal autoinjector syringes and a combination products

• Track & trace for glass syringes using laser coding technology

Claudia Petersen
Director Business Development
Gerresheimer

16:00 Legislation and regulatory requirements pertaining to packaging in prefilled syringes

• Developments in the packaging of prefilled syringes

• Examining regulatory requirements in the EU

• Case studies: Coordinating national and international requirements

Julien Tirefort
Packaging Process Leader
Sanofi Pasteur

16:40 Chair's closing remarks

16:50 End of conference

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