The Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver, home of the current NFL champions.
Our sales team recently visited Colorado for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2016 annual meeting.
Industrial and academic delegates from all over the globe descended on the Mile High city of Denver to attend the meeting which covered a diverse range of topics: from drug product manufacturing and stem cell research, to novel pharmaceutical technology.
Freeze drying and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) are important techniques in the pharmaceutical industry and we were excited to be showcasing two new stages at AAPS: the optical DSC450 stage and the freeze-drying vial system FDVS.
DSC is a technique used to measure temperature and heat flow associated with thermal transitions in materials. The optical DSC450 system has been optimised to combine the measurement of transition temperatures and enthalpy changes while simultaneously imaging the sample, providing additional information about changes in morphology and colour.
The Freeze Drying Vial System (FDVS) has been designed as a turn-key solution for simulating the industrial freeze drying process in a compact and efficient form. By incorporating vials, the FDVS works with a small sample volume and uses enough to simulate large scale industrial processes while still minimising sample wastage.
We also brought our humidity controller RH95, freeze drying cryostage FDCS and heating and cooling stage THMS600 which again proved popular within the market. The show reiterated the importance of sample characterisation within the pharmaceutical industry and the role Linkam has within it.
Ricky Patel and Duncan Stacey outside the McCrone building in Illinois.
While in the US, we also caught up with our American distributors – the McCrone Group. They graciously showed us around their facilities, including the famous Hooke College and gave us a tour of their private microscopy museum which has a collection of microscopes from the 17th century. We were treated to the delights of Chicago’s famous dining scene - and we are still trying to work off the additional weight!
We would like to give a big thank you to all those who came to see us at the show. We look forward to seeing you at the next pharmaceutical conference.
By Tabassum Mujtaba