Life Sciences

Bioprocessing Media

Spargers, floating filters, wicks, vents, and pre-filters for tangential flow filtration

Robust and versatile media for single-use bioprocessing applications

Our custom bioprocessing media and filters – including spargers, floating filters, wicks, vents, and pre-filters for tangential flow filtration – can be used in a wide range of applications.

As a complete porous materials solution, POREX® bioprocessing media provide critical functionality and performance in single-use bioprocessing applications.

Options for customizing porous bioprocessing media and filters

Key Features & Benefits

- Robust and easily incorporated using common techniques such as press-fitting, heat-staking, and ultrasonic welding.

- Ensure performance, accuracy, and reproducibility–CERTIFIED PURE POREX® materials and filters are rigorously tested and qualified by independent analytical, clinical, and life cycle microbiology laboratories to help ensure the purity demanded in bioprocessing applications.

- Comply with regulatory standards–POREX bioprocessing media and filters are USP Class VI, Gamma sterilization, and TSE/BSE compliant.

Common Applications

Spargers
Prefilters
Wicks
Vents
Tangential flow filters
Floating filters

Geometric Options

Sheets
Tubes
Complex three-dimensional structures

Material Options

Advanced porous materials (PE, PP)
Porous PTFE (POREX Virtek)
Porous polymeric fiber
Porous composites
Functionalized and bioactivated porous media

8-20 Micron average pore size polyethylene

2.5 L/min air flow | 5 L/min air flow | 10 L/min air flow

20-40 Micron average pore size polyethylene

2.5 L/min air flow | 5 L/min air flow | 10 L/min air flow

*1/2” OD tube
*Pore size measured by mercury intrusion porosimetr

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