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Intensified, efficient and scalable clarification

When you combine clarification steps while maintaining quality and scalability, you elevate your entire biopharmaceutical manufacturing process. Our advanced solutions can get you there.  

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Equip your process with next-generation technology

Your innovative therapeutics need to reach market quickly, and you can build your process to keep up. Even as recombinant protein development and manufacturing become more complex, you can target key steps for intensification and simplicity. You can also maintain quality output while processing higher cell densities and scaling up or down rapidly. When you choose the right harvest and clarification solutions, you protect your downstream purification processes and your manufacturing facilities’ flexibility and efficiency. 


Now you can simplify and streamline your recombinant protein harvest and clarification process with a unified solution platform from Solventum. Our recently expanded 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier platform now has two products to reduce process steps and provide a solution that integrates into your system infrastructure where you need it most. 


You can have consistent, scalable harvest and clarification performance, with no need to change technologies as you go from discovery to production. You can de-risk technology transfers and maintain predictable product quality, as you increase your capacity. 

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A scalable platform to take you from process development to manufacturing 

For process scale-up, scale-out and technology transfer from discovery to manufacturing, you need scalable solutions. Get linear scalability with the solutions in the 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier platform, to help you accelerate process development, simplify manufacturing strategies and improve process economics. 

Predictable, high-fidelity clarification across process scales

You can simplify your downstream process development and technology transfer across internal and external manufacturing footprints when you have consistent results. The solutions in the 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier platform provide comparable soluble and insoluble impurity reduction based on particle size and DNA clearance, whether or not your process uses centrifugation.

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How do products in the platform compare?

The 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier

Where high yield meets high efficiency

Attain a higher level of confidence in the productivity of your harvest and clarification process. When you choose the 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier, you can count on its synthetic fibrous AEX chromatography media for single-stage clarification. It can replace your centrifuge and depth filtration steps, enabling direct harvest and clarification of mammalian cell cultures. It provides a robust harvest, with yields up to 95%. Fully scalable capsules help you get from bench to production, you get predictable results as you scale up. And if you already use our 3M™ Encapsulated System Holders, you don’t need to purchase new hardware.

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Discovery phase single-stage chromatographic clarification

3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier, CT15
Conical tube centrifuge clarification in 10 minutes:
 
  • 15 mL capacity per tube 
  • High-throughput screening 
  • High purity 
  • High product recovery
3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier, WP6

Well plate centrifuge clarification in 10 minutes:

  • 15 mL capacity per well 
  • Compatible with liquid-handling robotic systems 
  • High purity 
  • Simple operation  
3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier, BT500 

Vacuum clarification up to 500 mL in 10 minutes:

  • Lab scale, bottle-top design 
  • Rapid harvesting of larger samples 
  • High quality samples for downstream processing

The 3M™ Harvest RC Centrate Chromatographic Clarifier

Cleaner centrate, better downstream process

Streamline your process and achieve downstream benefits, improve time and cost efficiencies, and optimize productivity. Designed to replace traditional depth filtration of centrate with next-generation clarification technology, the 3M™ Harvest RC Centrate Chromatographic Clarifier is our latest innovation in the 3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier platform. Achieve a new level of predictable performance as you scale your operation, consistently removing impurities and obtaining high-quality effluent from discovery to commercialization. As part of a platform, it also fits the 3M™ Encapsulated System Holders you may already own.  

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3M™ Harvest RC Chromatographic Clarifier
3M™ Harvest RC Centrate Chromatographic Clarifier
Type of clarificationDirect clarificationCentrate clarification
Technology platformQuaternary amine (Q) functionalized polypropylene nonwoven
  • Quaternary amine (Q) functionalized polypropylene nonwoven
  • Quaternary amine (Q) functionalized highly asymmetric 0.2 µm polyamide membrane

Mechanism

AEX chromatography

AEX chromatography
Materials

Synthetic 

Synthetic

Feed stream

Direct harvest and clarification

Centrate clarification
Scalability
Linear scalability from lab to multi-capsule commercial production (including screening tools)
Linear scalability from lab to multi-capsule commercial production
Water flushable
Yes
Yes
Features
  • High mAb product recovery (>95%)
  • Turbidity reduction (<15 NTU)
  • DNA reduction (<500 ppb)
  • Cell shear minimization
  • 0.1 & 0.2 μm sterile filter protection
  • High mAb product recovery (>95%)
  • Turbidity reduction (<15 NTU)
  • DNA reduction (<500 ppb)
  • Cell shear related submicron
  • 0.1 & 0.2 μm sterile filter protection
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School of Purification: Start learning today

Developed by our global experts, passionate about innovative approaches to biopharmaceutical separation and purification, School of Purification provides resources to help you and your team ramp up quickly. These free webinars and on-demand learning resources cover overcoming bottlenecks, optimizing efficiency, current trends, and future possibilities.

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