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SAFC® Raw Material Solutions for Pharmaceutical & Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

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A closer look at the SAFC® brand

The SAFC® portfolio offers Pharma & Biopharma raw materials and expertise tailored to your needs. Our responsive and expert team can support you at every step and stage: cell line and clone selection to final formulation, preclinical to full-scale commercialization.

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Innovative solutions for traditional and novel modalities

Bringing pharma and biopharma products to market requires a trusted expert who can support you with exactly the products, services and expertise you need.

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Support for your end to end journey

Learn more about our products: Bioprocessing & Formulation Raw Materials, Bioprocessing Cell Culture, Formulation Solutions, API & Folate Portfolio.

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EXPLORE OUR PHARMA/BIOPHARMA RAW MATERIAL PRODUCT AND SERVICE SOLUTIONS

Bioprocessing Cell Culture
Bioprocessing Cell Culture

Consistent, high-quality media, supplements, and reagents for classical and novel therapies that enhance cell growth and productivity and are backed by best-in-class service and regulatory support.

Bioprocessing Raw Materials
Bioprocessing Raw Materials

High-quality raw materials, comprehensive documentation, and expert support for your qualification, risk assessment, and process optimization efforts.

Formulation Solutions
Formulation Solutions

Explore our broad range of high quality GMP products for the development and manufacturing of solid, semi-solid and liquid dosage forms for small and large molecule therapeutics.

API & Folate Portfolio
API & Folate Portfolio

Comprehensive regulatory support for high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), backed by nearly 200 years of experience. We can support you with new process evaluation, product registration and filing, process development and validation, reference standard synthesis, and regulatory filing.


EXPLORE SAFC® RAW MATERIAL SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR MODALITY

Integrated Pharm/BioPharm product and service solutions that minimize risk and empower you to increase speed, safety, and productivity.

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EXPERT PHARMA/BIOPHARMA RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTS & SERVICES

BioProcessing Cell Culture

 

CHOZN® CHO Expression System

A CHO platform for fast, easy, metabolic-free selection and scale-up of clones for manufacturing.

The CHOZN® platform includes CHO cell lines, paired media & feeds, and optimized protocols that result in predictable, stable high titers. This platform is fully supported with quality documentation, regulatory-friendly ZFN gene editing technology, and expert consultation services.

CHO Cell Culture Media & Feeds

CHO Cell Culture Media & Feeds

Chemically defined, ready-to-use CHO media designed for commercial fed-batch and perfusion processes – enabling high titers, robust scalability, superior protein quality, and accelerated time to market.

Rely on Cellvento® and EX-CELL® Advanced media products for:

  • Consistent high cell growth and productivity
  • Increased productivity with the right feed combination
  • Proven success in batch, fed-batch and perfusion modes
  • Comprehensive documentation and support
CHO Cell Culture Media & Feeds

ImMEDIAte ADVANTAGE® Lab Services

We support biopharmaceutical manufacturing and process development with expedited timing of small volume custom cell culture media recipes.

  • We formulate cell culture media to your specification
  • Our fast-track services accelerate media development and optimization timelines
  • Our compounding methods and qualified raw materials ensure consistency and scalability of your formulation to full-scale GMP manufacturing
ImMEDIAte ADVANTAGE® Lab Services

Compacted Cell Culture Media

Designed to meet your need for ease-of-use, convenience and operator safety.

Our compacted raw materials and cell culture media, including Cellvento® 4CHO and Cellvento® 4Feed, are dust-free, ready-to-use materials with increased flowability for better handling, safety and processing. For cell culture media the advantage of compaction is in the significant reduction of dissolution time.

Compacted Cell Culture Media

EZ BioPAC® Dry Powder Bags
& Right Sized Weighing

Simplifies bulk powder transfers and additions, for all scales of operation, making operation faster, cleaner and safer.

  • Enables a single worker to easily dispense specific quantities of media and buffer powders
  • Minimizes product contamination risk and safeguards employees
  • Increases process security and efficiency
EZ BioPAC® Dry Powder Bags & Right Sized Weighing

Modified Amino Acids

(phospho-tyrosine, sulfo-cystine)

Phospho-L-Tyrosine disodium salt and S-Sulfocysteine sodium salt can be used together, as a single addition, enabling highly concentrated, pH neutral feeds.

  • Simplifies fed-batch processes and reduces pH spikes
  • Enables the intensification of fed-batch cell culture processes
  • Allows for room-temperature-stable formulations
Modified Amino Acids

SAFC® Cell Culture Solutions

Upstream process development and cGMP solutions tailored to your needs and fully backed by regulatory documentation and support.


Value Added Services

Real-time (virtual) hands-on process development collaboration between Millipore® expert team and client.

Emprove® Program the Smart Way to Master Compliance and Control
Complementing our product portfolio, the Emprove® Program provides convenient access to reliable and detailed technical, regulatory and supply information in Emprove® Dossiers to support your risk assessment continuum and streamline the regulatory approval process.

Critical Raw Materials
Our customized portfolio of high-quality critical raw materials supplies the documentation, and expertise you need to meet stringent regulatory requirements and mitigate risk in all aspects of drug development and manufacturing.

Custom Media Development Services
Our Media Development Services will identify a custom media solution that meets your objectives for cell growth, titer, protein quality profile, as well as media, feed, and perfusion requirements.


Security and Sustainability

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Sustainability
We are committed to reducing environmental impact and advancing sustainable scientific practices through the development of greener products, energy-efficient processes, recycling, sustainable packaging and waste reduction strategies.

Security of Supply
We know you need a supplier focused on supply robustness and resiliency, that can meet your changing needs and help you prepare for changing regulations and shift to more sustainable business operations. Our multi-faceted and global approach includes:

  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Supplier Risk Management
  • Supply Chain Mapping


WE BRING TOGETHER 6 OF THE WORLD’S LEADING LIFE SCIENCE BRANDS TO HELP YOU SOLVE THE GREATEST CHALLENGES IN LIFE SCIENCE.

Sigma-Aldrich® Lab & Production Materials
Sigma-Aldrich®

Lab & Production Materials

Millipore® Preparation, Separation, Filtration & Monitoring Products & CTDMO Services
Millipore®

Expert Pharma/ BioPharma Products & CTDMO Services

Supelco® Analytical Products
Supelco®

Analytical Products

Milli-Q®
Milli-Q®

Lab Water Solutions 

BioReliance<sup>®</sup>
BioReliance®

Contract Testing Services

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