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nanoTruck shows NANOPHOX

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Sympatec GmbH supports the new, nationwide information-campaign "nanoTruck - high tech from the nano cosmos" of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) with the supply of a NANOPHOX instument, which allows for size distributions analysis of nano particles in suspension on the spot.

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Spectacular NANOPHOX Development!

Sympatec GmbH has released a major re-design of its unique Dynamic Light Scattering based NANOPHOX PCCS instrument.

The Sympatec specific NNLS evaluation algorithm, allowing for secure determination of size distributions even with multimodal structures has now been enhanced with the “auto-NNLS” mode. The outstanding performance provides very reliable and realistic information about the particle size distributions, which are at the same time highly reproducible. The auto-NNLS mode requires no operator input for optimum determination of evaluation parameters and thus is applicable in validated environments and for FDA conform SOP’s as well. However, for special tasks manual operation and optimisation if requested is still available.

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Poster publication of Pfizer on AAPS 2007.

During the recent annual 2007 meeting of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in San Diego (11 to 15 November) Glenn Carlson & Bruno Hancock of Pfizer Inc., Groton CT, USA, presented a very informative poster regarding “The Effect of lot-to-lot Particle Size Variation in AVICELL^® PH Grades of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) on Bulk Powder and Compact Properties”.

The particle size distribution was analysed using the Sympatec HELOS laser diffraction (LD) instrument and the RODOS dry powder disperser. These (LD) results were then complemented with a shape distribution analysis performed on the Sympatec QICPIC dynamic image analysis instrument using the RODOS dry powder disperser.

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Sympatec wins Nano Award

The 1^st prize of the photo competition "Nano im Bild" was awarded to Sympatec with its collage Nanu? Nano!.

The prize was awarded on 7 November 2007 during the Nano Workshop 2007 in the auditorium of the Technical University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.

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WINDOX 5.4 released

The new software for particle size and shape analysis, WINDOX 5.4, has been released. It can be validated and comes with the following major improvements:

Image analyses may now contain up to 100,000,000 particles in 2GB of disk space. User and Database Administration can now be executed while users are connected to the database server. The database maintenance can now be made a scheduled task.Up to ten instances of the Data Visualisation Program may be run concurrently on the same computer. A WINDOX license can now be easily transferred from the software protection key to the computer and back.

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PICTIS & MYTIS
on-line Analysis of Granulates and fragile Particles

For the on-line or automated laboratory (at-line) analysis of granulates and fragile particles the family of process instruments has been extended by two new devices.

PICTIS combines the high speed image analysis of QICPIC with the gentle dispersion of the gravity disperser GRADIS in a singe robust instrument, covering a size range from 5 µm to 10,000 µm.

The on-line image analyser PICTIS with vibratory feeder VIBRI/L-GMP

MYTIS is using the well established laser diffraction in combination with the gravity disperser GRADIS, covering a size range from 0.5 to 3,500 µm in three measuring ranges.

Both units are fed by a constant mass flow from the vibratory feeder VIBRI/L and are available for pharmaceutical applications as GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) version as an option.

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