Terumo Medical Care Solutions

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions is a division of Terumo focused on designing and developing drug delivery devices. The company’s product line includes pre-fillable syringe systems, hypodermic needles, catheters, infusion sets and safety devices for infusion sets and needles.

Terumo Europe
Terumo Europe NV Pharmaceutical Solutions
Interleuvenlaan 40
3001 Leuven
Belgium

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T: +32 16 38 12 11
F: +32 16 38 02 49

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Terumo is a medical equipment designer and manufacturer. Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions, Terumo Medical Care Solutions, is the division of the company that deals in drug delivery systems, however Terumo also has interests in cardiology, oncology, peripheral intervention, cardiovascular systems, diabetes management and other pharmaceutical products such as infusion pumps and IV sets.

Terumo Pharmaceutical Solutions’ product range covers:

Syringes, including PLAJEX™ cyclo-olefin polymer syringes
Hypodermic and pen needles
Winged infusion sets and catheters, including Versatus™, Surflash™ and Surflo^® IV catheters
Safety devices for infusion sets and needles.

Terumo was founded in 1921 in Japan, with the intent to produce medical thermometers. The company’s first product was the first Japanese-made medical thermometer available for sale. Since then, the company has expanded into a broader portfolio of medical devices. Terumo has subsidiaries in Europe, South America, Asia, Australia and the US.

Articles by Terumo Medical Care Solutions

INDUSTRIALISATION

TERUMO GLOBAL PARENTERAL CDMO – INTEGRATED INNOVATION

Michele Guasti discusses the advantages that Terumo’s parenteral CDMO brings to customers due to its position as a single service provider from formulation to final product and its intimate understanding of Terumo’s range of prefillable polymer syringes.

OPTIMISING MICROLITRE DOSING: CASE STUDY WITH INTRAVITREAL INJECTION

Yuki Takeuchi and Richard Whelton discuss the challenges of delivering intravitreal injections and how the combination of Terumo’s PLAJEX™ prefillable syringes with Congruence’s Microlitre Dosing Syringe system is able to address them.

Rainer Glockler

OPHTHALMIC DRUGS: PATHWAY TO OVERCOME PRIMARY PACKAGING AND DRUG PRODUCT MANUFACTURING CHALLENGES

Rainer Glöckler, Carole Delauney, Dr Nicolas Eon and Katsuyuki Takeuchi discuss the myriad complexities of developing drug products for intravitreal injection, and how the partnership between swissfillon and Terumo can ease and accelerate these products to market. The first article, published in April, covered how swissfillon’s state-of-the-art filling line meets the complex requirements of ophthalmic drug products.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

Hideaki Kiminami

DEVELOPMENT OF PREFILLABLE SYRINGES TO MITIGATE THE RISK OF PARTICLE FORMATION IN BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

Hideaki Kiminami and Philippe Lauwers discuss the problem of particle formation in biopharmaceuticals packaged in prefilled syringes.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

A COLLABORATION THAT SAYS YOU’RE IN SAFE HANDS

William Dierick, Pascal Dugand and Adrien Tisserand describe a collaboration to create a compatibility between Terumo’s PLAJEX™; prefillable syringes with Nemera’s Safe‘n’Sound^® platform of add-on passive sharps injury protection devices for PFS.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

William Dierick

STERILISATION EFFECTS ON BIOPHARMACEUTICALS

William Dierick and Koji Nakamura report studies comparing the effects of different sterilisation on the extractables and leachables content of biotherapeutic products in prefilled syringes.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

William Dierick

A POLYMER-BASED PREFILLABLE SYRINGE SYSTEM TO MINIMISE RISK OF PROTEIN OXIDATION

William Dierick and Koji Nakamura explore oxygen and free-radical mediated mechanisms of protein drug degradation within prefilled syringes.

PREFILLED SYRINGES

William Dierick

USING PREFILLABLE SYRINGES FOR BIOPHARMACEUTICALS – DEVELOPMENT & CHALLENGES

William Dierick and Keisuke Yoshino describe the development of Terumo’s PLAJEXTM prefillable syringe system, which combines specific features of a COP syringe with the proprietary i-coatingTM technology to create a silicone oil-free system.

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