New publication - Setting commercialisation objectives for sustainable innovation
A new paper by Britest's Rob Peeling describes a methodology for setting commercialisation objectives for sustainability in an innovative project
02 December 2022BatchSafe - a new tool for process safety screening
Britest is delighted to announce the launch of a newly developed safety screening tool for solvent based batch reactions. Exclusively available to registered Britest Advocates, BatchSafe is an easy to use spreadsheet based utility that enables the user to rapidly separate combinations of reaction and operating conditions that lie within a conservative basis of safe operation from those that
13 January 2022Britest and Micropore Technologies Announce Licence Agreement
Micropore to use Britest Tools to evaluate client technical queries Britest Limited, the internationally recognised leading exponent of whole process design for the process industries, has entered into a licensing agreement with Micropore Technologies, the world's foremost authority on membrane particle formation. Being able to use Britest Tools as part of [our after-sales support] approach
06 July 2020Ever felt the need to think more like a Chemical Engineer? This course could be for you...
Ever felt the need to think more like a Chemical Engineer? This course could be for you... 28 th - 30 st April 2020 Hyatt Regency, Manchester UK Presented by Britest specialists in technical facilitation in association with Scientific Update This essential three-day training course for R&D Scientists and Engineers from other disciplines , who may find themselves at a disadvantage
10 March 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 2020New task library expands armoury for visually presenting processes
A new "task library" supporting the use of the Britest Process Definition Diagram (PDD) tool substantially expands the armoury of ready-made task representations available to Britest facilitators and practitioners, and helps create better PDDs faster. It covers a wide range of tasks commonly encountered in the chemical, pharmaceutical and bio-processing industries, including representations
17 February 2020New online tool put continuous whole process design decision making in your hands
A newly released set of resources supporting the uptake of continuous manufacturing approaches in the pharmaceutical industry is available now as a free to use e-learning tool on the Britest website. Developed by Britest and Cogent Skills in consultation with the ReMediES* consortium representing a broad supply and knowledge base in the sector, the tool provides an easy to use, self-guided
30 August 2019Focus article on digital design for pharmaceutical product and process development
Focus article on digital design for pharmaceutical product and process development An "in-depth focus" article in the June 2019 issue of European Pharmaceutical Review looks at how Britest has been working along with others in the ADDoPT collaborative consortium to explore how emerging process understanding and predictive models can be applied and embedded within industrial workflows to
17 July 2019Reflections on a continuous journey
As 2017 draws to a close, it is timely to reflect on what has been achieved and to set out targets for the New Year. 2017 marked twenty years since the start of the original EPSRC funded BRITEST project which ultimately led to the creation of Britest Limited. That project brought together chemists and chemical engineers, academics and industrialists, and batch and continuous production
20 December 2017New conceptual study for butadiene telomerization published
Research arising from the EU's 7th Framework Programme’s SYNFLOW project o n which Britest collaborated has resulted in a new, peer-reviewed publication describing a conceptual design study for a butadiene telomerization process. Britest Senior Innovation Specialists Amy Peace and Charles Gordon are co-authors on the new paper along with colleagues Prof. Wolfgang Marquardt, Sebastian
20 November 2017Britest to frame thinking on new approaches to decision making for batch to continuous evaluation
CEO speaking at 9th Symposium on Flow Chemistry for Industrial Applications Britest's Chief Executive Officer Dr. Gareth Jenkins will be in Barcelona next week, speaking at the latest in a series of international profile events for executive chemists, engineers and business developers in the pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industry. Dr. Jenkins will be conveying the latest thinking from
10 November 2017Symposium 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 2017