ABOUT US

Biopharma Powder Handling & Liquid Single-Use Solutions

ILC Dover is a world-leader in the innovative design and production of engineered flexible containment solutions for a diverse range of regulated industries, including the biopharmaceutical market. Our biopharmaceutical products expedite the manufacturing of biologics and reduce the risk of contamination to significantly impact safety, productivity, and profitability. With beginnings in aerospace in 1947, we adapted our decades of experience engineering advanced solutions for the most technically complex and logistically intricate applications, including the space suit for NASA, to provide breakthrough solutions for powder handling, processing, containment, mixing, and liquid single-use.

Our products, including EZ BioPac®, JetVent™, and JetMixer™, each do their part to achieve our mission of protecting people and their environments from the risks of critical conditions. EZ BioPac®, our purpose-built powder containment and transfer system, enables the simple and safe production of media and buffers while reducing fill-time and cross contamination. JetVent™ provides safe, automatic, and pressurized containment for HPAPIs by controlling negative air pressure to ensure proper flow into flexible-wall isolators. JetMixer™ allows for rapid mixing of powders into liquid without shear forces exerted on the powder, among other advantages.

Our custom production equipment and manufacturing facilities, which include an ISO Class 7 Clean Room, allow our single-use products to be manufactured to the most exacting standards. At ILC Dover, we are relentlessly dedicated to providing highly competitive products, advanced technology, and responsive service, and are proud to be on the front lines of global ingenuity and business excellence.

PRODUCTS

The EZ BioPacZip is the latest evolution in the tried-and-true EZ BioPac® line. Combining upper and lower integrated assemblies that zip together to form a solid barrier, ILC Dover’s EZ BioPacZip is the ultimate solution for transferring dry powders for media and buffer preparation during drug development and manufacturing. Its fully closed-loop design eliminates the risk of cross-contamination and operator exposure while facilitating meticulous weight adjustments to meet precise target weights in a contained and controlled format.

The efficient mixing of powders into liquids is a crucial step in profitable biopharmaceutical manufacturing. For operations where low shear and high product integrity are required, no other technology performs as well as the JetMixer™ System from ILC Dover.

The all-rounder, star of the show plug-and play isolator.

The soloVERSO isolator meets the needs of various applications in the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. Upgrade your existing plant to handle higher potency compounds and adapt to the changing marketplace with soloVERSO.

Make your manufacturing facility agile to customer demands as cleaning and validation are removed with this single-use, disposable solution. Increase your forecast of product runs by removing this stage of the turnaround process. Stay on track and remove the risk of undertaking costly and lengthy validations. soloVERSO can be supplied to a standardized design or customized to suit a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical industry.

High-purity water used for the preparation of cell culture media, buffers, and aqueous reagents.

ILC Dover LP, a company specializing in innovative single-use solutions for biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical processing, is now offering platinum-cured silicone tubing.

Used for a variety of applications throughout the biomanufacturing process including upstream, downstream and fill & finish, ILC Dover's platinum-cured silicone tubing is designed and validated for the high quality, purity, and performance requirements of biopharmaceutical fluid transfer processes.

ILC Dover is 100% focused on containing your process to get your product to market fast, safe, and pure. Our single-use containment solutions leverage our patented and industry-leading ArmorFlex® films to deliver extreme durability for a lower cost.

ILC Dover’s Liquid Single-Use BioProcessing Bags are single-use containers for fluid storage and transfer in cGMP manufacturing.

Our JetBreaker powder delumping system allows for the addition of difficult to mix powders that have large clumps to keep your process moving and allow you to dissolve powder more rapidly.

The efficient mixing of media and buffer powders into liquids is a crucial step in profitable pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. For operations where low shear and high product integrity are required, no other technology performs as well as the patented venturi system used by the ILC Dover ArmorFlex® Powder Mixer.

Product containment and processing of small-scale lab operations can cause a headache if they are irregular or infrequently performed. A costly acquisition of a large-scale containment unit simply isn’t an option for many laboratory applications.

Our classic flexible film isolator that is popular in lots of laboratory settings.

The soloASEPTIC system has been designed to accommodate a variety of aseptic processes in a single-use disposable isolator. Allowing for flexibility in your facility this system works around your needs.

The all-rounder, star of the show. Ready to plug-and-play isolator for various applications in the pharma manufacturing process. Upgrade your existing plant to handle higher potency compounds and adapt to the changing marketplace. 

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC’s) have become vital in the fight against many different types of cancer. The high potency nature of the toxin part of the ADC means you need to maintain the upmost operator safety while still running an efficient process. That’s why we developed the soloADC! Designed and manufactured in conjunction with an CDMO already handling the hazardous process, we developed this system which takes into all considerations when it comes to keeping both the people and products safe. With zero cleaning validation required the potential cost and time savings associated with cleaning validation are huge.

The Sentinel Clear PAPR offers state-of-the art respiratory protection for pharmaceutical personnel and other life science professionals.

The JetVent system allows for easy and confident handling of expensive and dangerous powders.The pressure inside the enclosure measured with high precision is used to control fan speed and gas inlet.

In the pharmaceutical industry, granulation is used to create bonds between particles as part of the oral solid dosage manufacturing process. ILC Dover supplies a family of products that support contained granulator operation and features validated containment technology, clear film, and the ability to retrofit to existing equipment design.

Milling is a common operation throughout the pharmaceutical manufacturing process. Sizing of powders is a dusty operation and with more potent powders being processed, the need for containing this operation becomes even more critical from safety and cross contamination avoidance purposes. 

Tablet coating is a common operation throughout the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.  ILC Dover supplies a family of products that support contained Tablet Coating operation. 

Tablet compression is a common operation throughout the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.  ILC Dover supplies a family of products that support contained Tablet Compression operations.

The ILC Dover Continuous Liner is an easy-to-use system that has been proven effective in containing active pharmaceutical ingredients and other hazardous compounds.

The Ventilated Enclosure System combines the benefits of Flexible Containment with a unique, light weight ventilation unit. This system provides all the advantages of a negative or positive pressure isolator providing reduced costs for cleaning and validation with the disposable enclosure that is utilized.

De-agglomeration of powder blocs according to GMP standard.

The Jet Feeder is a multi purpose system for feeding powders into liquid and for low shear mixing. It is the perfect unit to use on those products that are sensitive to shear. ILC Dover completed a successful test at a pharmaceutical facility for mixing starch into solution for a tableting process. The system is cGMP, easy to clean or CIP, and will work in single pass processes or recirculating processes. JetSolutions is an ILC Dover company and is the manufacturer of the Jet Feeder.

The homogenizer is working as a particles size reducer for particles in suspension in a liquid and to calibrate their size at a defined value.

A manual or automatic sampling valve can be adapted at the hopper or container powder outlet with a standard containment or bottle system.

The pneumatic POSITIVE pressure conveying (or PRESSURE conveying) is dedicated  to the transfer of larger quantities of powder or granulates under following conditions:

The negative pressure conveying is dedicated to small quantity of powder or granulates when:

The mixer is loaded with the individual raw materials exactly according to the formulation. The combination of Dosicon®  weighing equipment with suction conveying units fulfils this task. Fundamental advanrages of JetSolutions automatic multi-component dosing are high dosing accuracy (for quantities ranging from a few hundred grams to several hundred kilos), the prevention of cross-contamination risks, and freedom from dust.

The PST system can be operated in batch or continuous way. A set of valves allows the discharge or the re-circulation of the mixture. The powder characteristics and the flow capability will define whether a longer sucking time is required.

Dust-free bulk powder transfer from cardboard boxes, sacks or drums by means of a feed hopper with weighing frame. Positive raw material identification and registration by means of barcode scanners.

The DOSIMAT valve allows a precise dosing of any powder or granulate when filling drums, bags, boxes, big-bags, etc.

«IBC» means «Intermediate Bulk Container». An IBC is therefore a mobile, flexible and rapid storage device for any powder or granulates.

The DOSICON discharge station has been developed and patented by JetSolutions SA for discharging the DOSICON containers (IBC).

Thanks to its weighing terminal IT 9000 as well as its dosing device Multi-Dosimat, JetSolutions SA offers reliability and precision for filling powders or granulates into IBCs, boxes, bags, trucks, etc.

Storage of pharmaceutical compounds is a function of the storage process and not a specific containment driven requirement per se. This is the case whether you are processing in a contained fashion or performing non-contained processing into open kegs with simple drum liners.

ILC Dover brings a unique history and skill set to the biopharmaceutical industry, particularly single use biopharmaceutical powder handling and containment equipment.

Guardian drum liners are an efficient and economical solution to the headache and expense of cleaning and/or disposing of used drums.

The clean room produced liners are designed for use in FIBCs, IBCs, corrugated boxes, bins or totes.  The form fit design allows for a consistently complete fill and dispense of products because the liner has no pleats, folds or other traps to hinder material flow.

Guardian Form Fit Foil liners for hygroscopic dry bulk materials in FIBCs, IBCs and corrugated boxes improves package performance and protects.

Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers, FIBCs or bulk bags are large woven polypropylene bags designed for storing and transporting dry flowable bulk products.

Buckhorn reusable intermediate bulk containers from Grayling Industries are designed to provide maximum product protection, hygiene, and efficiency.

The PaperIBC container from Grayling Industries is a dependable, economical and environmentally responsible alternative to drums, bottle-in-cage and other “heavy footprint” types of intermediate bulk containers. 

EZ BioPac is meeting the challenges of biopharmaceutical powder manufacture. The EZ BioPac single-use system is the fastest, most efficient solution. Its larger diameter top opening permits easy filling and fine-tuning of final weight. 

ILC Dover pioneered flexible containment for the pharmaceutical industry and continues to innovate processes for better performance.

ILC Dover has worked with our customers to develop Flexible Containment Solutions for a wide variety of processes within the pharmaceutical industry.

Another proven method for cGMP processing is also available now using drums, a conical drum funnel and drum lifts.

Flexible Containment for offloading drummed materials in a safe and efficient manner is provided by the Drum Transfer System (DTS) platform.

Used for lab scale and production operations at multiple International Pharma manufacturers, our Granulator containment technology applications take the idea of retrofits to another level.

Nutsche Filters are a mainstay in processing in the Pharmaceutical and Chemical industries. They typically function by keeping the slurry contents fluidized until most of the mother liquor is filtered through.

SOLO CONTAINMENT

Product containment and processing of small-scale lab operations can cause a headache if they are irregular or infrequently performed. A costly acquisition of a large-scale containment unit simply isn’t an option for many laboratory applications.

Our classic flexible film isolator that is popular in lots of laboratory settings.

The soloASEPTIC system has been designed to accommodate a variety of aseptic processes in a single-use disposable isolator. Allowing for flexibility in your facility this system works around your needs.

The all-rounder, star of the show. Ready to plug-and-play isolator for various applications in the pharma manufacturing process. Upgrade your existing plant to handle higher potency compounds and adapt to the changing marketplace. 

Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADC’s) have become vital in the fight against many different types of cancer. The high potency nature of the toxin part of the ADC means you need to maintain the upmost operator safety while still running an efficient process. That’s why we developed the soloADC! Designed and manufactured in conjunction with an CDMO already handling the hazardous process, we developed this system which takes into all considerations when it comes to keeping both the people and products safe. With zero cleaning validation required the potential cost and time savings associated with cleaning validation are huge.

CONTACT INFORMATION

ILC Dover

One Moonwalker Road

Frederica, DE 19946

UNITED STATES

Phone: 1-302-335-3911 ext. 1506

Contact: Sales

FEATURED ARTICLES

NEWS

  • ILC Dover Secures North Carolina Facility To Expand Dry Repack Capabilities And Build Out cGMP Raw Materials Portfolio
    1/19/2023

    ILC Dover LP, specializing in innovative single-use solutions for biotherapeutics and pharmaceutical processing, has opened a new facility in Lillington, North Carolina to offer pre-filled trusted-weight cGMP raw materials for the growing biomanufacturing market. As a solutions provider for the expanding life sciences industry, ILC Dover continues to meet market demands by developing comprehensive solutions customized to customers' unique needs and end applications.

  • ILC Dover Announces New Multi-Compendial Water For Injection Solutions For Biopharma And Cell & Gene Therapy Market
    8/1/2022

    ILC Dover, specializing in innovative single-use solutions for biotherapeutics and pharmaceutical processing, announced the launch of Water for Injection (WFI) for the biotherapeutics market.

  • Solving API Manufacturing Challenges With Flexible Containment Webinar Announced for June 21
    6/7/2022

    Are you concerned about operational safety and efficiency during API manufacturing? This webinar discusses some of the common challenges faced in handling powders during HAPI/API manufacturing. Key strategies to mitigate risks associated with these issues will be shared including how flexible containment solutions can optimize powder handling during chemical synthesis.

  • ILC Dover Plans To Build New Manufacturing Facility In Poland To Meet Biopharma Industry Needs
    5/9/2022

    ILC Dover LP, specializing in innovative single-use and chemical workflow solutions for biotherapeutics and pharmaceutical processing, announced plans to break ground on a new 90,000 sq ft manufacturing site located in Gliwice, Poland in response to continued strong growth within its life sciences business. The state-of-the-art facility equipped with 20,000 sq ft of ISO Class 7 cleanroom capability will manufacture initially single-use powder bags, single-use liquid bags, and single-use fluid transfer assemblies. The new site will provide redundant supply capabilities, reduce the lead times for its European and Asian customers and manufacturing will be consistent with the Company’s global quality system.

  • ILC Dover Announces Single-Use Bags Ideal For Biopharma And Cell/Gene Therapy Drug Manufacturers
    3/29/2022

    ILC Dover LP (“ILC Dover” or the “Company”), specializing in innovative single-use solutions for biotherapeutics and pharmaceutical processing, announced its launch of liquid single-use bioprocessing bags, representing the first of many new products for handling and supply of sterile liquids for the biotherapeutics market.

  • ILC Dover Announces Acquisition Of KSE Scientific To Assist Biopharma, Med Device And Cell & Gene Markets
    12/16/2021

    ILC Dover, Inc., a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance materials for life critical and primarily life sciences-based applications, today announced the acquisition of KSE Scientific (“KSE”), a sterile solutions manufacturer which specializes in the production of Water for Injection (WFI) and related media and buffer solutions for biopharma, cell & gene therapy, tissue banking and medical device end-markets.

  • ILC Dover Announces April 13th Webinar For Recently Developed Aseptic Isolator System
    4/7/2021

    With the development of ILC Dover’s new Aseptic Isolator system new opportunities have opened up for many organizations who were previously able to conduct fill finish activities due to facility restraints or expensive closed barrier systems.

  • ILC Dover Expands Containment Technologies With Acquisition Of UK-Based Solo Containment
    9/9/2020

    ILC Dover, Inc. (“ILC Dover” or the “Company”), a world leader in the design and production of single-use flexible solutions for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced the acquisition of Solo Containment, Ltd. (“Solo”), a specialist manufacturer of flexible film isolators based in the United Kingdom. The acquisition will grow ILC Dover’s global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical business, expanding its solutions for high containment and powder transfer to include aseptic flexible isolators, among others.

  • ILC Dover Announces September 17 Webinar Gaining Value With Single Use Containment For Contract Manufacturers
    9/3/2019

    CMO and CDMO facilities have experienced fast paced growth and with more potent compounds planned for launch in the future the good times will continue. There are unique problems with growth for these contract facilities and many have to do with the controls required to assure proper containment of compounds in a multi-use facility. Containment is critical to assure personnel are not exposed to the affects of the drugs and to mitigate issues with cross contamination. These additional controls require greater attention to SOP’s particularly for cleaning and validation. These cleaning procedures reduce the uptime of equipment or process suites then limiting the facility to take on more campaigns and grow faster. This is where single use containment can expedite the changeover in campaigns while still providing the needed controls.

  • ILC Dover Opens New Production Facility In Cork Ireland
    5/21/2019

    MEP Deirdre Clune officially opened the new ILC Dover manufacturing facility in Blarney Business Park, Cork today (Tuesday) alongside ILC Dover CEO and President Fran DiNuzzo.

  • ILC Dover To Exhibit Flexible Containment Solutions At INTERPHEX 2019 Conference
    3/15/2019

    At ILC Dover we are focused on containing your process to get your product to market faster, safer, and cleanly.

  • Protective Equipment Is Critically Important For Ebola Responders
    2/14/2019

    The rare Ebola virus has set out on another deadly rampage. This latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst in the country’s history—more than 400 people have died from the epidemic since August. Obviously tragic for its victims, the virus threatens the healthcare providers who care for these victims as well.