Singapore, Feb 19, 2010: Laboratory equipment makers Waters and DAISO have jointly announced they are entering into a collaborative agreement to globally market and supply DAISOGEL bulk packing materials for process chromatography. The combined purification expertise of both organizations will aid pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies as they move from lab-scale purifications into pilot plant and process-scale manufacturing.

A prepared Waters release said to simplify scaling-up purification methods, DAISOGEL columns are packed using Waters patented Optimum Bed Density Technology. OBD Technology enables analytical column performance and industry best lifetime in larger preparative columns. Scientists will save time by eliminating the need for subsequent method redevelopment as they increase in scale.

As drug manufacturers invest significant amounts of money to manufacture new drug substances, they need solid commitments from established high quality process bulk suppliers with a long track record for synthesizing chromatographic media for drug purification processes.

Meanwhile in another related launch, Waters launched Viridisâ SFC columns, a new family of analytical and preparative supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) columns. Waters new Viridis SFC columns were developed to give laboratories using SFC a reliable source of high-quality columns for compound purification. Paired with Waters TharSFC instrumentation laboratories now have a single source for both instrumentation and columns for their all-important purification work.

Representing the first of Waters column products for SFC, Viridis columns are available in two chemistries: 2-ethylpyridine and silica. Waters Viridis SFC Columns are manufactured by Waters ISO 9000 facilities under comprehensive quality guidelines and feature the company’s patented preparative Optimum Bed Density (OBD) technology, designed to produce mechanically stable columns with longer lifetimes.

Regarded as a green technology by many pharmaceutical laboratories, SFC is becoming the preferred approach for the isolation and purification of target compounds at the milligram to multi-gram scale.