Collaboration to offer predictive modelling for drug stability

Clariant Healthcare Packaging has entered into a joint promotion agreement with FreeThink Technologies to support pharmaceutical predictive calculation and modeling

Clariant manufactures a range of protective packaging technologies and pharmaceutical desiccants that extend the shelf life of sensitive drugs.

The collaboration will use FreeThink Technologies’ analytical services and its ASAPprime software tool to model the influence of climatic conditions on packaged drug degradation over time.

Modeling data then can be used to determine drug substance and drug product shelf-life.

Mark Florez, product manager, Clariant Healthcare Packaging, said: “Bringing together Clariant’s expertise in the area of protective packaging and desiccants with FreeThink’s renowned modeling methodologies we can offer the pharmaceutical market the most robust service for predictive calculations to optimise protection of drugs.”

Dr. Kenneth Waterman, founder of FreeThink Technologies, said: “We are excited about our partnership with Clariant and we are looking forward to combining our relevant competencies to support pharmaceutical customers’ evaluation of packaging technologies for sensitive molecules.”