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Blow Fill Seal®
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A registered trade mark related to the blowing, filling and sealing of sterile single-dose preparations.
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Bottel pack®
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A registered trade mark related to the technology used in the machines that produce the sterile single-dose preparations.
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Certification
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Unither is ISO 13485 certified (Medical Devices - Quality Management Systems -Requirements for Regulatory Purposes).
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Effervescent tablets
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Tablets that dissolve spontaneously in water. The dissolution time is an important parameter.
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Own-brand products
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Unither regularly develops its own innovative solutions and makes them available to third parties with sufficient commercial resources for successful, own-brand market launches.
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Water for injection
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Sterile water used to make preparations for injection.
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Solid forms
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Solid tablets and effervescent tablets.
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GMP
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Good Manufacturing Practice
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Granulation
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A process for making tablets
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Innovation
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The creation of something new. Unither innovates by implementing novel solutions: BFS products, Unisticks, effervescent tablets, etc.
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Pharmaceutical company
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Les clients d’Unither sont des laboratoires. Unither est à la fois un laboratoire, au sens Innovation, un chercheur de solutions, et un conditionneur.
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Outsourcing
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Unither's customers are pharmaceutical companies. Unither is both a harmaceutical company (in terms of innovation and finding novel solutions) and a custom manufacturer.
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Pack
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A string of single-dose containers.
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Product
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A product can be presented and packed in different ways. Hence, a product launched as a capsule can be reformulated as an effervescent tablet. Unisticks can be used for handy, single doses of gels or liquid products.
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Trade show
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You can meet Unither at several trade shows a year - call us on +33 144 635170 for more details.
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Scored tablet
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A tablet that can be broken or cut in two (due to a line scored across the middle), enabling a half-dose to be taken.
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Production site
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Unither has 5 production sites in France (Amiens, Bordeaux, Bessay, Coutances and Gannat).
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Stickpack
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See Unistick.
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Tubes
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A type of packaging well suited to effervescent tablets. The tubes incorporate a desiccant which absorbs water vapour and thus keep the tablets dry.
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Single-dose preparation
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Each container contains a single dose of the packaged product.
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Sterile single-dose vial
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A sterile, preservative-free, low- or high-density polyethylene single-use vial containing a liquid or slightly viscous product (volume ranging from 0.25 ml to 60 ml).
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Unistick®
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Unither's registered trade mark for a single-use, tubular sachet of a liquid or gel (volume ranging from 5 ml to 20 ml).
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Unither Développement
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Unither's R&D division (Unither Développement) is located on its Bordeaux site.
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Viscosity
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A parameter that is measured in centipoises and corresponds to a product's density/consistence.
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Stick
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A tubular sachet.
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