The Compact HPLC Project: A Collaboration between Axcend and the Enabling Technologies Consortium

This presentation will review the collaboration between Axcend and the Enabling Technologies Consortium (ETC) to develop a compact HPLC. The effectiveness of the collaboration between eight ETC members and Axcend to define, develop, supply, and evaluate a viable compact HPLC system will be highlighted. The opportunity to develop technology and provide a solution with broad representation across the pharmaceutical industry has been invaluable. This highly productive project, which followed an earlier ETC project that addressed on-line sampling for HPLC analysis, has enabled Axcend’s technology platform to be modified and further developed to meet the specific needs for on-line characterization of chemical processes in a space-limited chemical fume hood. Beta-testing of the compact HPLC system by ETC members revealed additional applications in a variety of other areas of interest in pharmaceutical discovery, development, processing, and quality control.