Pietro Pirera
Product Manager, Capsule Fillers – IMA Active

About

Pietro Pirera is Product Manager for capsule filling at IMA Active. He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bologna (Italy), and has been working in the field of solid dose processing and manufacturing for more than 20 years. He is an expert in pharmaceutical engineering and the processing of micro-dosing DPIs.

Contributions

PULMONARY

MANUFACTURING DPIs: AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE

Pietro Pirera discusses the optimal process parameters for microdose dry power inhalers achieved by dosator technology.

More contributions

INDUSTRIALISATION

MANUFACTURING DPIS: CASE STUDY OF IMA ADAPTA^® WITH BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM SPIRIVA^®

Pietro Piera and Rainer Bauer investigate the optimal process parameters for low-dose dry powder inhalers achieved by dosator technology, presenting a case study in which IMA’s capsule filler, Adapta^®, is used to fill Boehringer Ingelheim’s Spiriva^® (tiotropium) dry powder inhaler.

PULMONARY

MANUFACTURING DPIS: AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE

Pietro Pirera and Stefano Crivellaro discuss the rising prominence of the DPI in inhalable drug delivery, how this has been facilitated by industrial filling technologies and how dosators in particular provide high-precision industrial-scale filling.