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Bridging Graz and Silicon Valley: Designing the Future of AI Leadership ✈️
From Stanford to the Lab: Microinnova is scaling AI 🚀
Our founder, Dr. Dirk Kirschneck, is currently embedded in Silicon Valley, learning from the best at Stanford University and Open Austria.
We aren’t just watching the AI revolution. We’re driving it. At Microinnova, AI is already an “active engine” in our engineering.
Modular Flow Chemistry and MTP: Transforming Pharmaceutical Manufacturing for Agility, Safety, and Speed
The pharma industry is embracing modular flow chemistry to overcome the limits of batch production. With MTP (Module Type Package) plants, companies gain unmatched flexibility, safety, and speed — enabling agile scale-up from R&D to production, cutting time-to-market, reducing engineering complexity, and handling even hazardous reactions more safely.
Engineering the Future Together: Inside Microinnova and Hovione’s Modular Manufacturing Vision
The latest Off Script podcast episode with Andy Lundin (Senior Editor at Pharma Manufacturing) dives into how flow chemistry, process intensification, and modular automation are accelerating the journey from development to commercial scale.
Modular Plants: Protecting Investment in Uncertain Times
How do you future-proof process plant investments in an uncertain world? One answer: build in the freedom to adapt.
Santa’s Dirty Wishlist – For Chemists Who Love Danger (But Prefer Not to Die)
This Christmas, Santa isn’t bringing toys. He’s bringing the reagents every chemist secretly wants but never dares to touch. Diazomethane, fluorine, HF, phosgene, nitrogen triiodide… the stuff of legends, the stuff of nightmares.
Pharma API Manufacturing: Fast and Flexible Like Lego 🪛
Modular API manufacturing is redefining speed and flexibility in pharmaceutical development. Instead of building new chemical synthesis plants from scratch, plug-and-produce modules, such as Microinnova’s FlowKiloLab® and FlowTonPlant, allow companies to assemble manufacturing systems quickly using pre-engineered components.
🔬 Shaping the Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: PHARMECO Consortium Meeting 💡
From participating in the #PHARMECO consortium meeting in Graz to welcoming the PHARMECO team at our Microinnova site, we had the chance to connect, share progress, and dive deeper into the technologies driving the project. It was a pleasure to be visited by AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, CPI, Universiteit Gent, Merck Gruppe, Pfizer, RCPE – Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Sanofi, Servier, UCB and Universität Graz.
Continuous Manufacturing for the Simmons-Smith Reaction: A Step Forward in Flow Chemistry
🚀 Excited to share our new publication in Organic Process Research & Development!
Cyclopropane rings are highly valuable in pharmaceuticals, but one of the main ways to make them, the Simmons–Smith reaction, has long been limited by safety concerns, handling of unstable intermediates, and labor-intensive purification steps.
From Spooky to Safe: Taming Hazardous Chemistry with Flow
Some reagents have a reputation for being “haunted”; toxic, unstable, or dangerously reactive. In traditional batch chemistry, these molecules send chills down a chemist’s spine.
But in flow chemistry, there’s nothing to fear. Hazardous intermediates like azides, diazonium salts, peroxides, or fluorine can be operated under precise control and with superior heat and mass transfer.
Flow turns spooky chemistry into safe, scalable reality, transforming what was once feared into a powerful advantage.
This Halloween, don’t be afraid of your chemistry.
Haunted molecules aren’t scary in flow.
🚀 Plug-and-Produce Made Simple: FlowTonPlant’s Modular Revolution
Quick, plug-and-produce and flexible scale-up delivered by FlowTonPlant. By using the same unit operations as FlowKiloLab®, scale-up effort is minimized. Compose your process plant with prequalified plant modules using our FlowTonPlant.
Meet our team at CPHI in Frankfurt and get a personal consultation! 🤝
Driving Digital Transformation in Pharma: Microinnova’s Role in the TWIN4PHARMA Initiative
Microinnova is proud to contribute to the TWIN4PHARMA initiative, led by the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE). This COMET Module drives the digital and sustainable transformation of pharmaceutical process development, and the successful review of the first year marks a major milestone!
Microinnova Teams Up with Hovione for Next-Gen Manufacturing
🚀 Exciting Partnership Announcement!
We’re proud to partner with Hovione, a global leader in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, to advance modular flow chemistry for multi-purpose manufacturing.