A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Exeter and Smart Manufacturing Ltd is playing a direct and key role in the production process of the new COVID-19 vaccine.
Experts from the University of Exeter have been working with the Devon-based manufacturing company to optimise the production of some of the equipment used to create the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The new vaccine was approved for use last week, with more than half a million doses of the vaccine ready for use from the beginning of January.
Smart Manufacturing is a small manufacturing company specialising in industrial equipment especially for pharmaceutical and food industries aiming to increase the efficiency and productivity of customers’ processes.
One of those customers, a Fortune 500 Company with operations in North Devon, produces highly specialised filters used in various pharmaceutical applications – including the new vaccine. The full story is on the KTP website here.
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