Pall Corporation opens expanded SLS Technical Support Centre in Bangalore

Pall India has inaugurated its expanded Scientific Laboratory Services (SLS) technical support centre in Bangalore, which now has more than 60 per cent enhanced validation and testing capacity. Established in 2006, expansion of this SLS Technical Support Centre further enhances Pall’s capability to support the process development needs of its customers across various industries. The move also reinforces Pall Corporation’s dedication to the growing bio pharmaceutical industry in India.

Naresh Narasimhan, Managing Director, Pall India said, “Investment in this SLS Technical Support Centre to establish a premier filter validation facility represents a strong commitment from Pall Corporation towards solving the diverse and complex filtration and separation challenges of our customers in the South Asia region. It caters to both life sciences and industrial businesses, providing our customers with advanced scientific support for their application needs. The expanded facility also houses a state-of-the-art training centre.”

The Pall India SLS Technical Support Centre offers customised solutions through Pall products and technologies, filtration and validation packages, and optimisation of customer applications and processes. This expanded facility provides a validated clean room for microbiology, a validated lab capable of handling cytotoxic materials, a unique validated cold room to facilitate low temperature testing and houses new technologies for protein purification and characterisation.

Sachin Indane, Director, BioPharmaceuticals division, Pall India emphasised, “With an increasing number of Indian pharmaceutical companies venturing into regulated markets, a need for reliable and speedy support in validation studies is eminent. We are excited to pledge our support to the growing needs of this industry.”

In addition, the SLS Technical Support Centre is focused on providing customers with wet laboratory training using specialised resources in the fields of filtration, biotech and vaccine process development, protein purification, process characterisation and optimisation. Training courses are fully customisable to Pall’s offering in primary separation, sterilizing filtration of liquids and gases, tangential flow filtration and ultrafiltration, chromatography, filtration validation studies and regulatory requirements, filter integrity testing and single-use systems.

Pall also hosted senior industry leaders for a symposium on ‘Current Regulations and Inspection Trends for Filtration and Filling in Aseptic Processing,’ which was led by Jerold Martin, Sr Vice President for Global Scientific Affairs for Pall Corporation.

EP News Bureau – Mumbai