www.autodose.ch
Autodose, a subsidiary of Symyx Technologies,
Inc., is a leading maker of precision
powder-dispensing equipment.
Pharmaceutical companies are under pressure to
reduce the overall drug development times as this
directly leads to additional ‘in market’ patent
life and therefore to additional revenue.
Because done manually, the handling of powder
represents an often unknown or underestimated
bottleneck within the workflow of various areas of
the R&D-process. On one hand the automation of
powder dispensing removes this bottleneck and can
reduce the drug development time significantly. On
the other hand, the automation of powder
dispensing enables the pharmaceutical companies to
adopt high-throughput strategies in areas
previously thought impossible.
Powdernium® is an advanced technology for the
automation of powder dispensing. Developed in 1999
and introduced to the market in 2000, Powdernium®
is able to accurately dispense and weigh a very
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