Biopharm tubing

Biopharm tubing
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Biopharm tubing

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Introduction
Watson-Marlow offers a range of biopharmaceutical tubing designed for purity, precision, and process security. Manufactured in ISO 14644-1 Class 7 cleanrooms, the tubing adheres to ISO 9001:2008 standards and cGMP guidelines, ensuring no contamination of critical process fluids.
Specifications
The tubing features low leachables and spallation, is free from animal-derived content, and is manufactured with rigorous hardness control and tight dimensional tolerances for long-term pumping performance.
Continuity of Supply
Watson-Marlow ensures a reliable supply with two independent manufacturing facilities and a production capacity that exceeds current demand. Global sales companies maintain stock for immediate availability.
Validation and Compliance
The tubing meets USP Class VI, European Pharmacopoeia 3.1.9, ISO 10993, and FDA regulations. Extensive validation packages and certificates of conformity are available, and the tubing is laser traceable and suitable for single-use applications.
Applications
Suitable for various biopharmaceutical processes such as mixing, filtration, and final filling, the tubing requires high purity, chemical compatibility, and long tube life.
Material Options
Available in five pharmaceutical-grade materials, the tubing offers broad chemical compatibility and long pump life. Options include Pumpsil (platinum-cured silicone), PureWeld XL (weldable tubing), Bioprene (precision TPE tubing), and STA-PURE Series PCS and PFL (PTFE-reinforced tubing).
LoadSure Elements
LoadSure elements allow quick tubing changes with D-connectors, ensuring reliability and high-pressure pumping. They are validated for biopharmaceutical processes and certified for compliance.
Single-Use Systems
Customized single-use solutions are pre-sterilized to eliminate cross-contamination, offering cost savings and simplified validation.
Research and Development
Backed by extensive research, Watson-Marlow's tubing ensures high purity and low extractables through post-curing processes that remove cytotoxic siloxanes.
Product Support
Bespoke services for non-standard requirements and immediate support with free trials are offered to ensure optimal system performance.
Conclusion
Watson-Marlow's biopharmaceutical tubing exceeds industry standards, offering unmatched purity, reliability, and performance for critical applications.
Pumpsil Platinum-Cured Silicone Tubing
Designed for high purity and minimal protein binding, Pumpsil features documented biocompatibility, traceability, excellent flow stability, and suitability for single-use applications.
PureWeld XL Tubing
Known for long pump life and chemical resistance, PureWeld XL is sealable and weldable for sterile connectivity, free from animal-derived components, and suitable for gamma sterilization.
Bioprene Thermoplastic Elastomer Tubing
USP Class VI and FDA compliant, Bioprene offers long peristaltic life, UV opacity, and is sterilizable by gamma irradiation and autoclaving, ideal for critical processes.
GORE STA-PURE Series PCS Tubing
STA-PURE PCS provides long-term performance with repeatable accuracy, superior burst resistance, minimal spallation, and is USP Class VI approved.
GORE STA-PURE Series PFL Tubing
Highly resistant to aggressive chemicals, STA-PURE PFL offers a long life, stable flow rates, and high burst pressures, suitable for pharmaceutical, chemical, and solvent-based processing applications.
General Information
The document includes detailed specifications, part numbers, and available sizes for each tubing type, emphasizing product suitability for specific applications and includes a disclaimer regarding potential specification changes.
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BIOPHARM TUBING FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCESS TUBING GUIDE

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THE PERFECT TUBING FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCESS The best tubing supplier for biopharm Purity, purity, purity As the world’s leading supplier of peristaltic pumps for the biopharmaceutical industry, we understand that we must provide a pumping package which meets your need for cleanliness, ease of use, control, tube life and reliability. We have brought this understanding to Watson-Marlow tubing. Biopharmaceutical products are too valuable to take any chances. The tube at the heart of your pump must provide the greatest purity and the most reliable and consistent performance possible - precious...

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THE PERFECT TUBING FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCESS Sterile Filtration Filtration Filtration steps require • Wide range of flows • Increased pressures, longer runs Bioreactor Media Powder Mixing Vessel Final filling Final filling requires • Highest purity • Consistent, accurate fills • Possible single-use Media addition Additions require Cell Separation • Controllability • Chemical compatability • Long tube life Fermenter feed Fermenter feeds require Ion Ster Exchange Fil Pretration Filtra ile tion • High purity • Lowest

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FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCE Choose your tube Our biopharm tubing offers absolute purity and reliability. It has the dimensional and restitutional accuracy essential to give long-life, repeatable performance. In addition, the right tubing for you must have the qualities needed for each part of your process. Watson-Marlow offers tubing in five pharmaceutical grade materials and over 40 sizes, giving an extraordinary range of application capability. Pumpsil Platinum-cured silicone tubing > Single-use biopharm tubing > Laser-etched lot traceability > Excellent flow stability Range of materials for...

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THE PERFECT TUBING FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCESS The single-use specialists Watson-Marlow supply fully customised, single-use solutions to meet our customers’ needs. From a single filling line to detailed assemblies for processes such as cell culture and purification, we provide solutions for your process requirements. LoadSure elements with D-connectors allow your pump tubing to be changed in under one minute, without special skills, to achieve perfect tube alignment and tension. • Total reliability and high-pressure pumping • Tri-clamp sanitary connectors in PVDF • Sterilisable by autoclaving...

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THE PERFECT TUBING FOR EVERY PART OF YOUR PROCESS Low extractables All our Pumpsil platinum-cured silicone tubing is post-cured to remove linear and cyclic siloxanes, which can leach out of other platinum-cured tubing materials and contaminate biopharmaceutical products. Post-curing also tightens the material’s molecular bonds, maximising resistance to stress, maintaining dispensing accuracy and increasing tube life. Bespoke service Need a non-standard bore size? Precise cut lengths? An etched definition or message on your silicone tubing? We handle special needs for many of our customers, as...

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TRIED AND TESTED RESEARCH BASED CREDENTIALS Ensuring the purity of platinum-cured silicone Watson-Marlow tubing is backed by testing and research which underpin its competition-beating qualities and make it totally trustworthy in the biopharmaceutical field. Here we present extracts from papers which demonstrate our research-based credentials. Although platinum-cured silicone tubing is industry standard, platinum curing, in itself, does not guarantee a high level of tubing purity with low/safe levels of extractables. Watson-Marlow achieves ultimate purity by driving off cytotoxic extractables...

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Ideal for: Single-use biopharm applications. Accurate metering, transfer and filtration Developed for the biopharmaceutical industry, Pumpsil is exceptionally pure tubing offering an ultra-smooth bore which helps minimise protein binding and ensure high purity in the finished product. • Fully documented biocompatibility and comprehensive validation pack • Absolute traceability with laser-etched part number, lot number and use-by date • Excellent flow stability for accurate process control • Comprehensive stock of a wide range of sizes • Suitable for single-use applications Pure platinum-cured...

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PureWeld’XL Weldable biopharmaceutical tubing The high performance weldable pump tube High performance, weldable TPE tubing Guaranteed supply continuity and product support from the leading manufacturer of fluid technology solutions. PureWeld XL delivers a safe and consistent process, using equipment and consumables designed to work together. Secure - delivers significantly longer pump life than a leading TPE competitor Designed for secure, cost effective peristaltic pumping and transfer duties, PureWeld XL delivers longer pump life than leading TPE competitors. PureWeld XL has excellent chemical...

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For long life and chemical compatibility Suitable for upstream and downstream biopharmaceutical proceeses, Bioprene offers exceptionally long peristaltic life, ensuring process security. Bioprene demonstrates a broad chemical compatibility; especially resistance to strong acids, alkalis and oxidising agents. Bioprene is widely applicable in biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations such as metering, transfer and filtration. It is ideal for media feed and pH control in fermentation and metering tablet coating materials. Bioprene is also suitable for a variety of applications in the food and beverage...

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Ideal for: Demanding applications including tangential flow filtration STA-PURE PCS pump tubing provides long term performance with repeatable accuracy, vital in pharmaceuticals and other high technology industries. • Pressure rated up to 7 bar (100 psi) • Longest available tube life • STA-PURE PCS's bore is three times smoother than thermoplastic elastomer tubing, with no grooves or cracking developing as flexing continues • Spallation virtually eliminated, leaving high-value duty fluids uncontaminated Unbeatable value for life STA-PURE PCS has a unique composite construction of silicone in...

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