Aesica has introduced 3P’s Fill2Weight dispensing system for powder formulations, including spray dried and lyophilized powders, at its Nottingham site. Fill2Weight is a flexible micro-dosing system with the ability to dose a wide range of powders that can be quickly scaled up from clinical to commercial production.
 
Aesica will be offering the system to customers as a tool that enables the direct filling of APIs into capsules, syringes or bottles. Fill2Weight measures and records the dispensed weight of all doses, allowing for compensation in powder property changes without the need for intervention or re-calibration. The micro-dosing system can be used across capsules, vials, blisters, injectables or inhalers with weighting resolutions as low as 10 µg, and can be used with potent compounds.
 
Ian Lafferty, site director at Aesica, Nottingham, said, “Increasingly clients are coming to our Nottingham site with the knowledge that we have the capabilities to develop virtually any dosage form and delivery mechanism. It is this flexibility and, crucially, the speed with which we can develop these products that has proved the main driver of our growth. The Fill2Weight system is widely regarded as the best-in-market micro dosing system. Indeed, its delivery flexibility, reproducibility and scale-up variability makes it the ideal complement to existing services. Ultimately, our goal is to get our clients to ‘first-in-human’ solutions as quickly as possible, reducing time consuming and expensive development work.”