Update: YMC has acquired both LEWA's Ecoprime Twin and the ChromaCon business in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Press Release

The full press release can be downloaded as a pdf.

LEWA's EcoPrime Twin featuring ChromaCon's CaptureSMB technology receives Aspen Award

Zurich, Switzerland and Groton, CT, USA. May 8, 2018.

LEWA’s EcoPrime Twin received the Aspen Award for the Advancement of Downstream Processing 2017. The prize is awarded by Aspen Brook, a platform seeking to connect the biotechnology community. It is most famous for its daily newsletter, the Aspen Alert, which reaches over 50’000 biotechnology professionals. More information about the award is available online at: https://aspenxchange.com/aspen-award/.

Michael Bavand, CEO of ChromaCon, commented: “We are very happy and congratulate LEWA to this prestigious award. The collaboration between our companies has been a great success. The implementation of continuous chromatography at GMP production scale now being implemented at major biopharma customers at pilot and production scale confirms the benefit of continuous processing.”

Earlier this year, an important milestone was reached when the successful scale-up of ChromaCon’s CaptureSMB process by Bristol-Myers Squibb was published in the journal Bioprocessing International. The article is available at: http://www.bioprocessintl.com/2018/scale-up-of-twin-column-periodic-countercurrent-chromatography-for-mab-purification/.

About ChromaCon

ChromaCon AG is a private Life Science Tool company located in Zürich, Switzerland, providing best-in-class laboratory chromatography equipment and process solutions to the biopharmaceutical industry. ChromaCon has developed and patented novel process principles, process control and simulation software, equipment designs and operating software for batch, cyclic and continuous chromatography. These process solutions result in significant CAPEX and OPEX cost savings and enabling scalable chromatographic solutions for large scale purification applications. The Contichrom® laboratory-scale equipment is co-marketed worldwide by ChromaCon and its partners. ChromaCon has provided global licenses for its process technologies to LEWA (Devens, MA, USA) for implementation into scale-up systems.

ChromaCon Contact

To find out more about ChromaCon please contact us directly or visit our website.
Dr. Michael Bavand, CEO, info@chromacon.com, www.chromacon.com.

About LEWA

The LEWA Bioprocess Technologies Group of LEWA-Nikkiso creates advanced downstream bio/pharmaceutical processing platforms. Their systems do the work of up to three competitive units in a smaller footprint. LEWA’s deep expertise in fluid dynamics, combined with industry-leading pump technology, allows us to provide precise batch to continuous processing solutions with the perfect balance of accuracy, repeatability and precision. Our design, fabrication and automation services assure single point, vertical supply benefits getting you on-line faster.

LEWA Contact

To find out more about LEWA please contact them directly or visit their website.
sales@lewapt.com, www.lewapt.com.