SilcoTek Coatings Enhance Bioprocessing Equipment

On Wednesday, October 2, SilcoTek's Dr. Jesse Bischof and Patrick Dick will be representing SilcoTek^® at the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering's (ISPE) Boston Product Show at Gillette Stadium (home of the NFL's New England Patriots and the MLS's New England Revolution sports teams) in Foxboro, MA. 

Founded in 1992, the ISPE Boston Area Chapter is the largest and most active chapter of ISPE, an international organization whose mission is to deliver technical and operational solutions to support pharma and bio-pharma professionals across the globe. The Boston Area Chapter has grown hand in hand with the region’s pharma and biopharma industries and now provides educational, career development and networking opportunities to over 1,600 technical professionals across New England.

SilcoTek will be located in booth #E322 in the East Red Level (see map below). They would love to meet with you and discuss your application. Please look for these friendly faces: 

SilcoTek Increases System Longevity, Performance, and Purity Without Exotic Alloys

Electropolished and passivated alloys are no longer enough for increasingly sensitive, complex, and costly biopharmaceutical processes. Even the smoothest stainless steel or exotic alloys are prone to microscale reactions with process fluids that lead to expensive downtime, lower efficiency, and maintenance. 

Fluid contact with metal surfaces should be eliminated to maximize output, performance, and purity, but metal alloys are a must-have for BPE. How can end users and manufacturers of bioprocess systems achieve both?

Surface technology from SilcoTek that makes stainless steel:

• Corrosion and rouge resistant to fluids at any pH 0-14
• Twice as durable
• Self-cleaning and easier to maintain
• Inert to the most coveted metal-sensitive compounds of interest, like oligonucleotides

SilcoTek’s surface technology is trusted by manufacturers of semiconductors, medical devices, analytical instruments, and other high technology applications where purity and performance are of utmost importance. Reasons include:

• Surface treatment is FDA compliant, USP Class VI and NSF certified
• Applicable to any BPE flow path component, including tubes up to 24’ long
• Penetrates and bonds to equipment surfaces molecularly, preventing flaking
• Does not change ASME-BPE surface designation, can be applied to SF0-SF6
• Vapor phase surface treatment process uniformly treats 100% of surfaces
• Significantly lower cost and lead time than exotic alloys
• Easy process – send SilcoTek® your equipment and we handle the rest

SilcoTek®-treated 316L stainless steel eliminates rouging in guanidine hydrochloride (left) and even prevents metal contaminants that leach from C-22 in the presence of high purity water (right).

With the high demand for cost-effective and easier-to-use solutions for bioprocess analyses, SilcoTek's coating technology allows for faster, easier, and more efficient processing. Reach out to our knowledgeable technical service team with questions about your application or to set up a meeting with Jesse and Patrick at the ISPE Boston Product Show! 

Visit us in Booth E322 in East Red Level of Gillette Stadium!