Season 1

In our latest podcast episode, host Christian Dunne spoke to Jorge Esteban, CEO and Managing Director of FAMAT sampling, S.A, an engineering company designing and manufacturing sampling solutions for the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Bulk industries. 
Jorge and Christian discuss the challenges facing companies looking to sample their potent compounds safely, efficiently and in compliance with regulations, along with our recent partnership to develop the ideal contained sampling solution.
 
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For episode #3 of the Pharma Tech Talks podcast, we welcome Head of Continuous Manufacturing at Gericke, Bernhard Meir.Bernhard joins host, Christian Dunne, to discuss why continuous manufacturing is becoming more popular in the pharmaceutical sector and what the main advantages of this technology are over the traditional batch process regarding containment.They also delve into a current hot topic in the pharma industry of process supervision, how this issue should be approached and what Berhanrd predicts for the future.As a research assistant and during his thesis at the Technical University of Munich, Bernhard Meir investigated the impact of parameters on feed rate fluctuations of a continuous blender. He joined Gericke as a project engineer, gaining extensive knowledge and experience in handling bulk solids. Today, he is the head of Gericke's department for continuous manufacturing. With more than 125 years of experience in bulk materials handling, Gericke is the leading supplier of turnkey solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid dosage forms.
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Vice President of Global Business Development at Freund-Vector, Jamie Frizzell, joins Pharma Tech Talks host Christian Dunne to discuss why sustainability, customisation, and automation are all key factors to remaining flexible in a continuously evolving pharma industry. 
Jamie and Christian also delve into the current processing equipment trends, best practices, and what industry changes Jamie predicts for the future of processing equipment.
Having spent nearly 29 years at a leading global manufacturer of pharmaceutical processing equipment for oral solid dosage manufacturing, Jamie has a vast range of knowledge and experience within the oral solid dosage realm, particularly in the containment of potent compounds, WIP/CIP systems, equipment and facility design and automated control systems.

Containment, cleaning, single-use vs multi-use, sustainability.These are all hot discussion topics in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry today.In this episode, our host, Christian Dunne, is joined by Oliver Gottlieb, Senior Specialist and SME of Oral Dosage, Solids Handling, Chemical API & Synthesis and High Containment, from international specialised pharma engineering company, NNE.NNE, with its headquarters in Copenhagen, employs approx. 1900 employees in Denmark, India and the USA who help pharmaceutical companies bring products to market by providing flexible, compliant and future-proof solutions from design to handover.
With a master’s degree in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and over 20 years of working with engineering and operations in the regulated pharmaceutical industry, Oliver works globally within front-end and process engineering, troubleshooting and consulting customers on high containment, small molecules, solid oral dosage, formulation, solids handling and active chemical pharmaceutical ingredients and synthesis processes.
He is also co-author of the recently released ISPE Global Practice Guide - Containment for potent compounds.