Merck Millipore adds Millistak+ filter to disposable depth filter systems
Accelerates screening of 26 grades of media offered in Millistak+ product line
Merck Millipore (operating as EMD Millipore in the US and Canada), the life science division of Merck KGaA, has added the Millistak+ µPod filter to its disposable depth filter systems. The smaller, 23cm2 filter is used as a process development screening tool for depth filter selection and optimisation.
With the Millistak+ µPod filter, users can easily connect multiple devices in parallel or series to screen combinations of media rapidly, the firm says. The filter is available in four media categories representing 26 different media grades.
‘The flexible, modular format of the product line ensures that the clarification process is easily scalable from 5 to 12,000 litres or more,’ said Inese Lowenstein, director, Downstream Processing, Merck Millipore.
Millistak+ Pod filter systems are suitable for a wide variety of primary and secondary clarification applications, including cell cultures, yeast and E. coli lysates post centrifuge, E. coli refolds, media, vaccines, plasma proteins and sera. They incorporate multiple graded-density layers and adsorptive, positively charged filter media to accommodate applications from lab to pilot to process scale. The unique pod format offers greater flexibility because of its enclosed and fully disposable design, the firm says.
In recognition of the latest Millistak+ product, a US$50,000 donation on behalf of the Merck Millipore Giving Program and the company’s Process Solutions business unit has been made to MAP International. This will fund critical health and education programmes in regions where infant and maternal mortality rates are highest.
