New collaborative project to establish safe and sustainable pharmaceutical lifecycles by design
Britest is playing a crucial linking and communications role in a a new four-year European project that will contribute to the sustainable development of pharmaceuticals, by using and promoting lifecycle approaches to their design, manufacture, usage, and disposal
10 October 2022Britest support to Digital Implementation planning
A new 2-minute-to-watch video explains how Britest's roadmap for digital design development and application can be used by organisations in the chemicals-using and process industries to successfully plan for a rapid and effective business introduction of new ways of working based upon emerging digital and modelling based process design, development and control methods. The roadmap builds upon
26 March 2021Lock-down unlocks fresh thoughts on plant cleaning
The exceptional set of circumstances provided by COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom has catalysed some insightful reflections upon the subject of pharmaceutical plant cleaning on the part of Britest's Rob Peeling. Rob's "Eureka!" moment came upon him in a rather unlikely location: standing in front of a rather weather-worn garage door whilst struggling to get it sufficiently grime and
01 September 2020Article on digital information flows goes open access
A new publication describing how new digital models and approaches have been mapped onto the information workflow involved in pharmaceutical product and process design and development via a Britest-developed dedicated technical facilitation methodology has been selected by the publisher for open access status. This means that the full paper, published in the Jan/Feb 2020 edition of ISPE
21 February 2020Particle Informatics: how Digital Design is advancing understanding of particle properties
A new publication arising from the ADDoPT project collaboration describes how a combination of existing and novel approaches has been applied to the assessment and prediction of particle properties intrinsic to the formulation and manufacture of pharmaceuticals via a new, robust workflow applying predictive digital design tools built around the CSD-System software suite . The paper,
08 August 2019Symposium Report - Continuous Flow Chemistry for Industrial Processes
RSC Symposium, ChemSpec Europe, Münich, Germany, 31st May – 1st June 2017 The production of fine and speciality chemicals is still heavily reliant on batch processes. There is much technology innovation being developed to enable the scale-down of continuous processing and the 2017 RSC Symposium at ChemSpec Europe highlighted some recent successes, reported here by Britest CEO, Gareth
15 June 2017Britest CEO in chair at Continuous Flow Symposium
Gareth Jenkins to chair session at RSC event during Chemspec 2017 Britest Limited is pleased to report that our Chief Executive Officer Dr. Gareth Jenkins will be chairing a session at a forthcoming Royal Society of Chemistry International Symposium in Continuous Flow Chemistry for Industrial Processes . The event, taking place over the two days of Wednesday 31st May and Thursday 1st June,
25 May 2017New £20.4m project set to transform UK pharmaceutical development and manufacturing
Britest is playing a key role in a newly launched major collaborative project that is set to transform the UK pharmaceutical industry by enabling the manufacturing processes of the innovative medicines of the future to be designed digitally. The ADDoPT (Advanced Digital Design of Pharmaceutical Therapeutics) project addresses a key challenge for the pharmaceutical industry; getting new
28 January 2016Britest to partner in £22m REMEDIES project
Britest’s role in the REMEDIES (RE-configuring MEDIcines End-to-end Supply) project will help the UK pharmaceutical industry develop enhanced process understanding to improve medicines manufacturing and supply. The project was launched in 2014 and has recently accelerated into its next phase following the approval of £11.2 million of UK government funding through the Advanced Manufacturing
26 August 2015