India, Nov. 30 -- A single-use system (SUS) is biopharmaceutical manufacturing (bioprocessing) equipment that is designed to be used once (or for a single manufacturing campaign) and then discarded. Pharma companies are adopting single-use technology (SUT) to speed up the manufacturing process and discard the stainless steel equipment that has been in use for quite some time. Contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs) were amongst the earliest adopters of SUT and over the past decade, SUT has been adopted increasingly by a majority of Indian manufacturers.

Single-use bioreactors, single-use bags, filters, etc. are used for some time and are used commonly whereas perfusion devices, membrane adsorbers, powder handling systems, disposable ...