The Merck Discovery Tour is a pre-event day taking place at Merck KGaA’s brand new Process Solutions plant in Darmstadt. It’s so new that it has not yet been completed, this is your chance to be one of the first to not only see it but also view the latest state of the art technologies housed in it.
This full day tour is a truly unique opportunity to discover Merck KGaA’s latest developments and technologies through a mixture of specialist lectures and a tour to the new Merck GMP Process Solutions Plant. Delegates will be collected from the official hotel and taken to Merck’s Darmstadt facility and will take part in:
- Merck company tour
- Rare opportunity to tour the new Merck GMP Process Solutions Plant
- Specialist lectures on Merck’s latest developments in downstream purification – including the smart EshmunoTM resins – followed by in-depth discussion with specialists
- The tour culminates in a tour of Darmstadt and afternoon entertainment comprising of a tour of Mathildenhöhe (Art Nouveau artists’ colony)
| 21 June 2010: The Merck Discovery Tour |
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| 08:00 |
Pick-up at Hotel |
| 09:00 |
Welcome |
| 09:10 |
Tools for Biomanufacturing |
| 09:20 |
Opportunities in Bioprocessing |
| 09:40 |
Increasing Downstream Productivity – Innovations by Merck |
| 09:55 |
EshmunoTM – Discover the SMART side of Process Economics
- Tangible cost savings
- Superior binding capacity by modified tentacle technology
- Excellent flow rates by proprietary base beads
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| 10:15 |
Plug’n Flow Prepacked Columns for Flexible Manufacturing
- Quick change-over times
- Quality principles and services
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| 10:25 |
New State-of-the-art GMP Solutions Plant
- Process solutions and CIP products
- Quality principles and services
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| 10:35 |
Merck Company Tour
- Merck’s history
- GMP solutions plant
- GMP plant for solid mixtures
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| 12:30 |
Lunch with Opportunity to get Insight Information about
- Resins for biochromatography
- Opportunities in bioprocessing
- EMPROVE® bio process chemicals
- Peptide purification
- Blood fractionation
- Vaccine manufacturing
- Global applied technology – trainings and workshops
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| 14:00 |
Darmstadt City Tour |
| 17:00 |
Return to Conference Hotel |
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