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Dual Chamber Delivery Systems
177
Issue No #177 Sep/Oct 2025
September 26th, 2025
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Issue 177 - Sep/Oct 2025
Inside the magazine
INTERVIEW
Laxman Halleppanavar
Credence MedSystems
Interview: Making Dual-Chamber Systems a Viable Alternative
In this exclusive interview, Laxman Halleppanavar and Guy Furness discuss industry trends and challenges with injectable delivery, and how Credence MedSystems' dual-chamber devices provide solutions to address those challenges. Mr Halleppanavar goes into details of Credence’s role in this increasingly important sector of the drug delivery market, explaining the company’s approach to device design, development and overcoming the barriers posed by supply chain management.
INDUSTRIALISATION
Matthias Müller
Contexo
HIGH SPEED LASER ASSEMBLY – FLEXIBLE MACHINE CONCEPTS WITH FULL LASER INTEGRATION
Matthias Müller discusses the advantages of including laser technology in drug delivery device manufacturing, covering the various ways in which this technology can be applied and used to provide efficient, cost-effective and clean processes at high throughput rates.
DUAL CHAMBER
Marc Flippe
BD (Becton Dickinson & Company)
DE-RISKING A NOVEL VALVE COMPONENT FOR USE WITH STANDARD SYRINGE AND AUTOINJECTOR PLATFORMS
Marc Flippe and Sophie Lelias introduce a novel valve component designed to enable dual-chamber functionality within standard syringe and autoinjector platforms. Developed through a comprehensive modelling and development framework, the BD dual-injection syringe system provides a scalable solution to dual-chamber injection that reduces the burden of change by preserving compatibility with established container formats and device architectures.
DUAL CHAMBER
Bjørn Knud Andersen
Phillips Medisize
IMPROVING THE SELF-ADMINISTRATION OF LYO- AND LIQUID-LIQUID FORMULATIONS
Bjørn Andersen and Iain Simpson explore the factors contributing to interest in lyo-liquid and liquid-liquid drug delivery, highlighting some of the current unmet needs in this space. Following this, they discuss how platform technologies, such as electromechanical drives, may help address these unmet needs.
DUAL CHAMBER
Enrico Barichello
Stevanato Group
TWO INTO ONE: SOLVING COMPLEX DRUG DELIVERY PROBLEMS WITH DUAL-CHAMBER CONTAINMENT SOLUTIONS
Enrico Barichello and Valerio Ravazzolo describe how dual-chamber solutions ensure isolation, integrity and safety for managing lyophilised and liquid drugs. With innovative and customisable designs, these technologies improve drug delivery, reduce contamination risks and simplify complex therapies, addressing the evolving needs of both pharmaceutical industry and patients.
DUAL CHAMBER
Dr Nina Fetz
SHL Medical
ADVANCING LYOPHILISED DRUG DELIVERY WITH REUNITE™: RECONSTITUTION MADE SIMPLE
Dr Nina Fetz introduces SHL Medical's Reunite
®
, the first and only commercialised dual-chamber cartridge, three-step autoinjector featuring the company’s Needle Isolation Technology. With automated reconstitution, Reunite enables reliable self-injection of lyophilised formulations, supporting home-based care models.
DUAL CHAMBER
Dr Brent Buchine
Windgap Medical
BEYOND THE BARREL: A DUAL-CARTRIDGE IMPROVEMENT TO TRADITIONAL DUAL-CHAMBER DEVICES
Dr Brent Buchine explores how Windgap Medical’s devices transform dual-chamber systems with a modular, scalable and remarkably simple approach to reconstitution and complex drug delivery.
EXPERT VIEW
Edward Trappler
FROM HOSPITAL TO HOME HEALTHCARE: ADVANCES IN LYOPHILISED PRODUCT DELIVERY
Edward Trappler, Denise Miller and Michael Thomas discuss the challenges for lyophilised products and consider the role of dual-chamber devices in simplifying reconstitution, particularly for at-home healthcare products, and go on to look at how future advances in delivery devices are providing safe solutions for self-administration while improving patient adherence.
EXPERT VIEW
Kristien De Clercq
POWDER TO THE PEOPLE: ACCELERATING ACCESS TO LYOPHILISED THERAPIES
Kristien De Clercq and Dr Alex Vasiev discuss the challenges and recent advances in drying and reconstitution technologies, as well as how, while dual-chamber primary packaging offers a potential solution for simplifying reconstitution, it remains underused due to usability concerns and a prevailing industry preference for vial-based lyophilisation over alternative drying methods such as spray drying and powder filling.
DUAL CHAMBER
Dr Markus Neumeier
Vetter Pharma
ADVANCING LYOPHILISED DRUG DEVELOPMENT IN DUAL-CHAMBER SYSTEMS
Dr Markus Neumeier details the lyophilisation process and the range of elements that need to be examined for a dual-chamber system undergoing freeze-drying, while also laying out the quality control processes to conduct when transitioning from the laboratory to industrial-scale operations.
EARLY INSIGHT
Eric Sugalski
Ampulis
Early Insight: RETHINKING DUAL-CHAMBER SYRINGES: A LATERAL APPROACH TO FASTER, SAFER RECONSTITUTION
Eric Sugalski examines the limitations of current concentric dual-chamber syringe designs and explores a novel, lateral-chamber approach from Ampulis – the Ampulis Reconstitution Syringe.
EARLY INSIGHT
Gareth Pearce
Pacifi Ltd
Early Insight: DuoVIAL
®
– PROTECT, MIX AND DELIVER
Gareth Pearce introduces Pacifi's DuoVIAL
®
primary packaging technology for topical lyophilised formulations – a minimalist dual-chamber drug delivery system that enables safer, easier and more cost-effective reconstitution, while retaining the proven materials, formats and filling processes well established in the pharmaceutical sector.
EXPERT VIEW
María FM Balson
DELIVERING COMPLEXITY: DEVICE CONSIDERATIONS FOR TWO-COMPONENT INJECTABLE FORMULATIONS
María FM Balson weighs up strengths and limitations when developing devices for lyophilised injectables, exploring their growing demand and the impacts of formulation, device type and design on the feasibility for bringing a device to market to deliver these essential therapies.
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