Case Study: Reducing product loss | Bag-independence

Claus Exenberger - Single Use Support

Claus Exenberger

June 20, 2022

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The choice of single-use bioprocess containers in biopharmaceutical handling has had consequences for the performance and requirements in biomanufacturing until now. Lack of compatibility and inflexibility of platform systems have determined future investments. It therefore has lead to increased operational and capital expenditures and added complexity in the manufacturing process for CDMO.

A global CDMO, developing and manufacturing drug products for different customers, has set its goal to find single-use bag-independent solutions to increase process flexibility whilst minimizing product loss rate. Together with Single Use Support the company has conducted first trials with RoSS technology as bag-independent protection for all available single-use bags on the market.

This case study compares different suppliers of protective single-use shell solutions for single-use bags with a strong focus on the effects of bag-(in)dependence for the CDMO and bottom line reduction of product loss.

Case Study - Reducing Product Loss | Bag-independence

The RoSS shell can be used for all available 2D bioprocess containers - all vendors, all sizes - which makes it a vendor-independent protective shell to unify the cold chain logistics process.
Claus Exenberger - Single Use Support

Claus Exenberger

Product Line Management

Claus Exenberger is Product Line Manager at Single Use Support. As product owner of the RoSS shell, the secondary packaging of single-use bags, Claus and his team develops further non-sterile products to advance handling of single-use bags for the biopharmaceutical industry. With his working experience of 5+ years at Single Use Support he is expert in the protection of all available single-use bioprocess containers. His proximity to customers helps connect his process-oriented approach with the technical development of products.

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