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CUSTOMER MAGAZINE
The Medicine Maker Innovation Awards showcase the most impres-
sive launches over the year. TOYOPEARL Sulfate-650F, our new ion
exchange chromatography resin, was judged to be one of the Top
15 innovations 2016. TOYOPEARL Sulfate-650F is a strong cation
exchange resin that exhibits high salt tolerance, while allowing for
high-protein binding capacities across a wide range of pH values and
conductivities. The resin is especially suitable for the purification of
therapeutic antibodies. Current purification processes frequently re-
quire diafiltration or dilution steps before loading the target onto the
first ion exchange column. Protein purification with TOYOPEARL Sul-
fate-650F can help potentially shorten and simplify the whole process
as physiological salt concentrations can be tolerated during protein
binding. The judges said: “By permitting protein adsorption under
high salt conditions, this new ion exchange resin may reduce the
number of operations during bioprocessing.”
In March, Tosoh Bioscience LLC received a Pittcon Today’s Excellence
Bronze Award for the TSKgel Protein A-5PW HPLC column. Pittcon
Today’s Excellence Awards were designed to recognize innovations at
the 2017 Pittcon Exposition. A panel of judges – consisting of thought
leaders from across academia, industry and trade media – viewed all
types of scientific innovations and selected this year’s winners based
on submissions’ ingenuity, creativity, implementation and outcomes,
as well as the products’ projected impact on the industry. Out of a
diverse pool of more than 80 product submissions, the TSKgel Prote-
in A-5PW column received a “Bronze Winner” accolade. The TSKgel
Protein A-5PW column was introduced to customers working in mo-
noclonal antibody development last August. “We are very excited
that the judges from the Pittcon Today panel acknowledged the inno-
vative capabilities of the TSKgel Protein A-5PW column and we are
pleased to receive such an esteemed honor,” said Cara Tomasek, Lea-
der of the Product Management Group. “As the biopharma industry
grows, more researchers will look for a product that can accomplish
high throughput analysis since many harvest cell culture samples
must be screened for IgG titer in early monoclonal antibody deve-
lopment. Because of its high flow rate tolerance and durability, along
with its exceptional lifetime, the TSKgel Protein A-5PW column is the
ideal solution for the analysis of monoclonal antibodies.”
Congratulation also to our sister companies Tosoh Quartz, Inc., an in-
dustry leader in the production of quartz glass products for use by
the semiconductor industry, and Tosoh SMD, Inc., a leading global
provider of thin film deposition materials and of solutions to manuf-
acturers in the semiconductor, display, solar, and large-area coating
markets. They were among 26 companies recognized by Intel as wor-
thy of 2016 Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) Awards.
We are looking forward to continuing these success stories as there
are other exciting new products in the pipeline for 2018. In March, our
global marketing team traveled to the Tosoh Nanyo Complex produc-
tion facility in Japan to meet with our R&D team and discuss the next
generation of our product lines.
THE CHEMISTRY OF INNOVATION
– NOT JUST A TAGLINE
THE COMPANY SLOGAN OF OUR PARENT COMPANY TOSOH CORPORATION, JAPAN, IS ‘THE CHEMISTRY OF INNOVATION’. NUMEROUS
AWARDS GRANTED TO TOSOH DURING THE LAST MONTHS PROVE THAT OUR COLLEAGUES IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LIVE UP
TO THIS MOTTO. TWO AWARDS ARE RELATED TO CHROMATOGRAPHY PRODUCTS LAUNCHED IN 2016; BUT ALSO OUR SISTER COMPA-
NIES TOSOH QUARTZ INC. AND TOSOH SMD INC. RECEIVED PRESTIGEOUS AWARDS.
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