SANTA ANA, California – September 26th, 2017: Irvine Scientific, a world leader in cell culture media development and manufacturing today announced the expansion of its manufacturing facility in Santa Ana, California to increase overall dry-powder production capacity. The expansion was multistep and included: more space dedicated to its animal component free (ACF) dry powder production area, additional impact milling capacity, the addition of a large-scale, pharmaceutical grade blender, and higher throughput cleaning capacity of the ACF dry powder portion of the facility. As one of its fundamental business offerings, Irvine Scientific performs large-scale cGMP manufacturing of dry powder media for the biopharmaceutical, vaccine and cell therapy industries. The expansion provides tumble blending capacity of 12,000 L total dry volume. This additional capacity enables the company to provide customers with homogeneous, high-quality powder media in single production batch sizes of up to 7,000 kg.
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