Sartorius Stedim Biotech Partners With Cell Culture Media Specialist SAFC Biosciences(R) to Provide World-Class Fluid Management and Liquid/Powder System...( Global agreement strengt...),Health

Global agreement strengthens customized manufacturing solutions for upstream and downstream processing and moves the 'disposable factory' closer to reality

GOETTINGEN, Germany and ST. LOUIS, July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sartorius Stedim Biotech (Euronext: DIM), and SAFC Biosciences, a business segment of SAFC and member of the Sigma-Aldrich group (Nasdaq: SIAL), both leading suppliers to the biopharmaceutical industry, announced the signing of a global partnership agreement that combines Sartorius Stedim Biotech's (SSB) expertise in filtration and liquid handling systems with SAFC Biosciences' proficiency in development and manufacturing of cell culture media and downstream purification products. The alliance is expected to provide more robust and comprehensive solutions to biopharmaceutical manufacturers.

The companies will combine their expertise in generating application data on filter and mixing performance with critical purification buffers and cell culture media. Similarly, extractable and leachable data will be generated with buffers and media, and filters and biobag combinations. In addition, SAFC expects to utilize SSB technology for storage and mixing of cell culture media to optimize its fluid/powder handling systems. According to the agreement, each company will offer its products with the assistance and support of its partner, working together to better serve customers in solution creation, validation support, process improvement, technical support and problem solving. Additionally, the strength of the partnership's combined technical resources should create a larger range of integrated manufacturing solutions and a wider array of options for biopharmaceutical manufacturing customers.

Reinhard Vogt, Executive Vice President and board member of Sartorius St
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