Showing advanced technologies at A3P Barrier Technologies Congress, Tours

Lohra, Germany: European premium pharma solutions provider HOF Sonderanlagenbau GmbH will showcase its technological innovation in high quality tailored freeze-drying at the 2025 A3P Barrier Technologies and Lyophilzation conference, dedicated to clean and sterile pharma production.

The event is taking place in the ancient city of Tours in  the Loire Valley in central France, and will be the latest of several A3P-organised events attended by HOF over recent years, including the A3P International Congress and A3P Lyo event in 2023.

Advanced technologies

Under its banner of “Premium Pharma Solutions”, HOF will exhibit from Table 6 in the Exhibition Zone of the Tours Convention Center. The event team will include HOF Sales Management leader Fabian Plaum and Mathias Monfort, Sales and Service specialist for sustainable industrial refrigeration partner Refolution Industriekälte.

The HOF displays and its networking activities at the conference will emphasize its significant advances in aseptic freeze-drying such as the development of robotic handling, as well as its huge strides in sustainable lyophilization with the development of eco-friendly technologies such as CryoBlizzard that can use ambient air as a refrigerant.

Fabian Plaum commented: “We are looking forward to this latest A3P event that will give us a great opportunity to a showcase or latest innovations and developments in lyophilization technology and share them with our French-speaking customers.”

About HOF Sonderanlagenbau

HOF Sonderanlagenbau GmbH is a world-class and highly innovative special equipment manufacturer of Freeze-Drying, Freeze-Thaw and loading/unloading systems for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Founded in 1988, this German family-owned company has become one of the world’s most respected names for high quality just in time freeze drying (lyophilization) solutions, with more than three decades of experience.

Sonderanlagenbau is German for ‘special equipment manufacture’ and in this case, refers to HOF’s lab scale, pilot scale and production scale freeze drying solutions, loading and unloading systems, and freeze-thaw units for the pharmaceutical, biotech and life science industries.

From its advanced manufacturing base at Lohra, north of Frankfurt, HOF designs and constructs specifically tailored freeze-drying and associated solutions for companies all over the world under its motto of “Just in time quality for demanding customers.”

HOF Sonderanlagenbau is the leading manufacturer for customized Freeze-Drying solutions and has constructed a fully integrated total design and build environment in which every machine is unique, exactly specified in partnership with customer and manufactured to meet very specific requirements.  The partnership ethos extends into ownership, with our comprehensive service and maintenance offerings designed to ensure that no one needs to work on a HOF machine except its own experts.

HOF is consistently named as one of the Top 100 most innovative companies in Germany.

Learn more at: www.hof-sonderanlagen.de/en/home/.

About A3P Barrier Technologies 2025

Founded in 1986, A3P (Association pour les Produits Propres et Parentéraux – Association for Clean and Parenteral Products) has become a key player in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, dedicated to the good development of the production of clean and sterile medicines and materials, through its network of suppliers and manufacturers.

The A3P Barrier Technologies – Lyophilization Congress 2025 is a specialized event bringing together professionals from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors to explore the latest advancements in aseptic processing, with a particular focus on barrier technologies such as isolators and Restricted Access Barrier Systems (RABS), as well as innovations in lyophilization (freeze-drying) processes.

The 2025 Barrier Technologies Congress is a two-day event opening June 25, 2025, at the Tours Convention Center in France. The congress will feature a series of expert-led presentations and workshops addressing critical topics in sterile manufacturing, including integration of advanced containment solutions to enhance product and operator safety, strategies for optimizing freeze-drying cycles, and the implementation of real-time monitoring technologies to ensure process reliability.

The event is organized by A3P with further information at https://a3p-technologiebarriere-lyophilisation.eventmaker.io/en/index#/

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