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What are the compelling reasons that so many in our industry are championing the growing use of single-use contact surfaces in bioprocessing? What motivated HyClone and Alfa Laval Biokinetics to decide to create HyNetics? Here are some of the most commonly cited factors for using disposables in biopharma production.

The use of single-use product contact surfaces in manufacturing can:

• Eliminate or vastly reduce the possibility of cross-contamination between batches of product.

• Eliminate the need for CIP and/or SIP.

• Reduce Operating Costs 

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• Eliminate the need for related CIP and/or SIP periodic validations.

• Permit true animal derived component free manufacturing, without the need for dedicated equipment or tankage.

• Provide for rapid scale-up or scale-back in a process.

• Avoid idle production capital equipment.

• Allow for near-JIT production capacity in some applications.

• Reduce upfront capital investments in stainless steel hardware and utilities.

• Reduce validation costs.

• Allow a company to recognize costs as the disposables are used in production (variable vs. fixed) rather than as amortization rolled into overhead.

• Reduce between-batch cycle time and provide greater convenience.

• Reduce production and warehousing space requirements.

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