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Laboratory and pilot spray dryer for R&D and small-scale pro...
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Deadline: Mar 25, 2022
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Summary

An Italian company active in the field of pharmaceutical technologies has developed a spray dryer prototype specifically aimed at R&D and lab-scale activities. The company now wishes to bring this technology to the market and is looking for foreign partners in target countries willing to collaborate under either commercial agreement with technical assistance or joint venture agreement.

Description

Spray drying is a method of producing a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. This is the preferred method of drying of many thermally-sensitive materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals. Usually such equipment have large dimensions, hardly affordable for small laboratories.

An Italian university spin-off located in North-West Italy (Piedmont Region) with thorough experience in R&D formulation development in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and nutraceutical fields, has developed a special spray dryer prototype designed for R&D and small-scale productions. With a view to helping scientists’ fast and effective R&D and scale-up operations, the equipment is designed to replicate the behaviour of a production unit, while maintaining an extremely compact design, useful in small laboratories. Chamber size and cyclone have been developed for best powder recovery and the equipment is able to record all the process parameters for accurate post process evaluation. Moreover, this is the first spray dryer equipment controlled by rugged tablet: the software have a unique feature named "DoS", helping scientists to easy transfer the process parameters to industrial plant.
The company now wishes to bring the prototype to the market and is looking for foreign partners interested in promoting the spray dryer in target countries through commercial agreement with technical assistance.
Potential partners should have a good knowledge of local market rules, as well as technical skills related to spray drying methods and related application fields (pharmaceutical and food sectors), to provide technical assistance to local clients.
The company is also open to the creation of joint ventures with interested partners, with a view to adapting the equipment to specific local market segments and distributing it in target countries.

Further to thorough market and competitors’ analysis, the company has selected the following preferential target countries for the initial commercial development of its equipment, due to their potential market dimensions and characteristics: Germany, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Brazil and Peru.
Nevertheless, requests coming from other countries will be also evaluated.

Advantages & innovations

- Compact design, ideal for small laboratories; - Complete process control from large touch screen monitor or industrial touch screen tablet for remote control (for high containment areas); - Fully customizable (glass or steel column); - Bag filter with second discharge for high powder recovery; - Wheeled for easy transport in the work area; - Work surface magnetically removable for easy cleaning; - Up to 15 data recorded; - USB, LAN and Wi-Fi connections; - Easy download (PDF or Excel sheets) of all the processes recorded; - Two different user level access (R&D and Production).

Stage of development

Available for demonstration

Partner sought

Commercial agreement with technical assistance: selected partners from target countries will be asked to promote the spray dryer in their local markets. They should therefore have good knowledge of local market rules, as well as technical skills related to spray drying methods and related application fields (pharmaceutical and food sectors), to provide technical assistance to local clients. Joint venture agreements for adapting the spray drying equipment to specific local market segments and distributing it are sought as well. Requests coming from selected target countries (Germany, Israel, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, Peru) are preferential, but expressions of interest coming from other countries will be evaluated as well.

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