Dave Howes (senior applications specialist at ILC Dover) introduces his company’s market-leading solution for single-use powder containment. Howes’s Presentation Some challenges in biopharmaceutical powder manufacturing include optimizing open-suite facilities; minimizing product loss from spills; lessening waste and cross-contamination; reducing worker exposure to airborne particulates; and lowering the risk of ignition with flammable materials. Characteristics to look for in a powder-transfer system are a system design that is exclusively meant for powders (not adapted from liquid-transfer designs) large-diameter top openings for…