Biologics Modular

Local Bloomington IN Business Adds Capabilities and Biologics Modular Cleanrooms

AB Biotechnologies, Inc., experts in lyophilization and formulation recently announced a substantial expansion plan to their existing Bloomington, IN facility. AB BioTechnologies will construct and equip a new 23,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Monroe County. This includes investing $10.5 million and creating up to 33 new high-wage jobs by 2020. The company will add manufacturing services for formulating, filling, freeze-drying, and packaging injectable drugs for Clinical Trial studies.

Part of that expansion will be the inclusion of almost 1,300 ft² of modular clean room space, to be provided by Biologics Modular, LLC. Headquartered in Brownsburg, IN, Biologics Modular, LLC, designs and manufactures modular facilities to serve as self-contained biomanufacturing suites and research suites to health science service providers, educational facilities and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Modular clean rooms are our specialty here at Biologics Modular. Designs for the layout have been gaining momentum over the last few months. Taking the intermodal platform as the base for the clean rooms, Biologics Modular will transform the units into a fully functional validated clean facility. The clean space will be built and assembled at the Biologics Modular facility prior to FAT (Factory Acceptance Test). Once the proven functional facility has been signed off, it will be prepared for shipment to AB BioTechnologies, Inc. in Bloomington, IN.

“I have known Jeff (Jeff Schwegman Ph.D., founder and chief executive officer of AB BioTechnologies) for a few years now and admire his pronounced expertise in the world of freeze drying. Working directly with him on his facility expansion will be very exciting, as will adding another Biologics Modular facility to the pharmaceutical world,” said Clark Byrum, Jr., President and CEO of Biologics Modular, Brownsburg, IN. “We are full steam ahead to help Jeff as much as we can.” Jeff Schwegman, added “Early on in the planning phase of our expansion, we decided that we wanted state of the art facilities and equipment, and we wanted it quickly. The faster you get through the expansion phase, the sooner you’re out of cash burn mode and into manufacturing where you’re turning a profit on your investment. Biologics Modular’s modular clean rooms, as part of our new cGMP manufacturing line, fit those needs perfectly. They’re assembled, tested, and qualified at Biologics Modular then disassembled and shipped to our facility where they’re reassembled, plugged into the utilities, and you’re up and running after requalification. Plus being modular, if we ever need to move them, it’s doable without too much trouble.”

Biologics Modular and its partners at Purdue are founding partners of the new National Institute for Innovation in Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing (www.niimbl.org). The Institute has offices in Newark, DE on the University of Delaware campus.

NIIMBL will help to advance U.S. leadership in the biopharmaceutical industry. It will also foster economic development, improve medical treatments and ensure a qualified workforce by collaborating with educational institutions to develop new training programs matched to specific biopharma skill needs.

New Look Website with New Product Updates for 2016

First of all, welcome to the new Biologics Modular website. The new look website is being launched in late November, 2016!

After looking through the site, you will see that Biologics Modular has expanded their product line to include Occupational Healthcare Clinics. The Clinics are a center for employees and their families to receive basic healthcare, screenings, immunizations, etc. The result is a better option for Occupational Healthcare provided by companies and municipalities.

Another positive item to be found in our New Look Website is CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) services.  Customers outside of the Life Sciences domain can now obtain this service. CFD is always part of our standard design procedure. It is used before we begin fabrication to ensure we have predicted the airflow in a room. However, CFD can now be obtained by anybody requiring it, not just our clients who are engaged in a clean facility project.

Feel free to view the short videos Velocity 1, Velocity 2 and Velocity 3.

In the first video named Velocity 1, you can see the incoming flow. This flow is captured by the elbow duct turning 90 degrees down into the HEPA filter and then on into the cleanroom. Looking at it from the side view, about 75% of the entire filter is being used. The result is the air packing up at the back of the duct. Consequently air is not flowing through the HEPA filter efficiently.

In the next video named Velocity 2, you can see the elbow duct position has been moved. This was done to try and improve the flow efficiency down into the HEPA filter. This would be a logical change that you would think should help direct the flow across the entire filter. The end result here is that the air flow still wants to pack up at the back of the filter leaving 25% of the HEPA unused.

In the final video named Velocity 3, you can see the elbow duct position has been retained. An internal cross shaped vane has been added within the elbow. Now we can see a much improved flow across the HEPA filter, utilizing 100% of the filter span with good laminar indication into the clean room. This is a very good solution to ensure filter efficiency and good flow within the clean room.

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Most of all, feel free to post any relevant feedback about our New Look Website using the contact us page. Enjoy the site and thank you for visiting.