Manufacturing today’s pharmaceuticals is a tricky business; the drugs are expensive and extremely fragile thus requiring extremely accurate mixing and dispensing with an eye on cost. A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Scientific Products & Systems, Inc. (SP&S) joined forces to engineer a liquid dispensing system platform never before seen in the bio/pharma markets. SP&S is currently marketing its core “OnePump” technology to a variety of markets that rely on precision fluid-handling capabilities.
An initial scientific collaboration between a team of researchers at UMBC, headed by Dr. Muniswamappa Anjanappa, and David Bach, CEO/CTO of SP&S, led to a jointly developed technology and an exclusive license in 2003. A graduate student researcher at UMBC was later hired by SP&S. The company is located in a business incubator affiliated with the university.
The company’s goal is to provide proprietary precision fluid handling tools to the pharmaceutical, bioscience, dental, cosmetic and specialty chemistry industries, globally.
Key applications include positive piston and peristalsis technologies, which use a piston to force material through a syringe or a tube, respectively. SP&S offers its customers a range of dispensing units based on the patented OnePump™ technology.
With the packaging equipment industry’s increased emphasis on ultra-high accuracy, automated and modular low cost systems, the OnePump™ offers unique flexibility allowing users to handle fluid dispensing on the lab bench, in clinical trials and pilot operations, and on full manufacturing lines. In addition, the SP&S OnePump™ has been proven and validated by several of the United States’ largest pharmaceutical manufacturers.
This story was originally published in 2007.
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