Parker Domnick Hunter Boosts UK Single-Use Manufacturing Capabilities

International bioprocessing solutions provider Parker domnick hunter has strengthened its ability to serve the European market by launching a single-use manifold manufacturing facility in the UK.

Parker domnick hunter – a division of the Parker Hannifin Corporation – has invested in a new ISO Class 7 clean room at its site at Birtley, UK, from which it will produce single-use manifolds incorporating tubing, bioprocess containers, filters, sensors and other components for use in the bioprocessing industry.

Parker domnick hunter designs, supplies and delivers whole systems for both upstream and downstream pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing and serves clients throughout the world.

The launch of the UK manufacturing facility further enhances the division’s single-use production capabilities, adding to its manifold production operation in Oxnard, California, USA.

The manufacture of manifolds in the UK will enable Parker domnick hunter to supply European markets more effectively, making it easier for biopharmaceutical companies to access specialist manifolds and shortening the supply chain, with resulting benefits for production turnaround and operational continuity. The move to produce manifolds in the UK in addition to the USA will also enable Parker domnick hunter to offer a more robust manufacturing capacity, based around the capabilities of its dual sites - an important capability for business continuity planning.

Parker domnick hunter specializes in the development of custom automated processes, incorporating sensor and control technologies, filtration products and single-use consumables. These single-use solutions help to standardize operations, identify, monitor and control bioprocess variation and ensure product quality and consistency when upscaling from development to manufacturing scale.

As part of its work, Parker domnick hunter has developed configured solutions for the rapid design, testing and manufacturing of single-use assemblies, based around a dynamic and validated design space. Working in a pre-designed and optimized configuration space creates significant time-efficiencies for biopharmaceutical manufacturers, resulting in decreased product lead time, and this streamlining process can enhance performance and quality.

By using configured design space solutions, biopharmaceutical manufacturers do not have to allocate significant resources to the design of single-use systems, allowing them to maintain focus on the process development cycle and product manufacturing. The standardization process also results in a more robust supply chain and simplified inventory control.

Guy Matthews, market development manager at Parker domnick hunter, said: “The manufacture of manifolds at our Birtley site is an important step for Parker domnick hunter, allowing us to provide an even better service to our European customer base, with our specialist manifold design, testing and production capabilities brought much closer to our clients’ operations.

“Biopharmaceutical manufacturers design processing systems which incorporate specific, customized manifolds, so it is important that they are able to be supplied with products rapidly, and have confidence in their own ability to access products when they need them. We believe that by manufacturing manifolds in Birtley we will be giving our customers both greater flexibility and peace of mind.

“Our investment in Birtley has been made to ensure we continue to play a major role in supporting the biopharmaceutical industry across Europe and the rest of the world, bringing our manufacturing expertise and products to our customers based in Europe and beyond.” For more information, visit www.parker.com/dh-bioprocessing

About Parker domnick hunter
Parker domnick hunter provides integrated bioprocessing solutions that speed up development times, increase efficiency and safety, and enable reproducible quality. Incorporating SciLog, Parker domnick hunter combines filtration, single-use fluid-handling systems and sensors into automated single-use solutions.

About Parker Hannifin Corporation
Parker Hannifin is the world’s leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs approximately 57,500 people in 50 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 58 consecutive fiscal years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index. For more information, visit www.parker.com.