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By Paul Thomas, Senior Editor ATS Automation Tooling Systems Booth #2841 ATS Automation Tooling Systems provides innovative, custom-designed, built and installed manufacturing solutions to many pharmaceutical companies. ATS also contract manufactures electro-mechanical components and machinery for global customers in the healthcare and other industries. AdvantaPure/New Age Industries Booth #1555 AdvantaPure manufactures sanitary hose, tubing, fittings, and silicone injection molded components such as single-use fill and sampling assemblies, stoppers and true unions. Products exhibited include: AdvantaFlex, a single-use biopharmaceutical grade tubing ideal for media and viral filling and sampling applications; AdvantaLabel hose identification solutions; and GammaTag, a new gamma-sterilizable RFID solution that can be attached to healthcare equipment and medical devices, as well as single-use products requiring gamma sterilization before use with no risk of data loss. TruScan is a rugged, handheld Raman system for rapid raw material verification. Non-destructive point-and-shoot operation enables verification through sealed packaging to minimize risk of exposure and contamination. TruScan’s embedded analysis software delivers a PASS/FAIL decision verifying the identity of a sample typically within 30 seconds. Akrimax Manufacturing is a privately-held, contract development and manufacturing company in Rouses Point, New York. The approximate 950,000 square foot, state of the art facility was purchased from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and has a long-standing history of compliance with the FDA and a proven workforce. Alfa Laval is a global manufacturer of specialized equipment and engineered process solutions, with a commitment to modular process solutions for unit operations and key components such as high-speed separators, decanters, compact heat exchangers, pumps, valves, fittings, tubing, tank cleaning equipment, membranes and parts and service. Latest technologies include the new Culturefuge 400, a high-volume production scale disc stack separator designed for primary clarification of shear-sensitive cell culture processing; the Alfa Laval ART Plate Reactor, a technology that allows manufactures to go from batch processing to