PBS Biotech
Vertical-Wheel® Bioreactors

One Platform. Bench to Commercial.

Five single-use systems that share the same gentle Vertical-Wheel® mixing, so a process you develop at 0.1 L transfers predictably to 80 L. Every system runs a pre-sterilized single-use vessel.

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The GoVertical Scale-Up Journey

Find Where You Are.

Select a stage to jump to the system built for it. The same mixing physics runs through all five.

Research & pre-clinicalClinical researchCommercial production
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PBS-Mini
0.1–0.5 L
2D → 3D transition & feasibility

Benchtop Vertical-Wheel® vessels to prove feasibility and dial in your process at minimal cost and risk: a true scale-down model for everything above it.

Best for early R&D & feasibility screening, a true scale-down modelcGMP ready · 21 CFR Part 11
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All Five Systems at a Glance.

SystemWorking volumeVesselcGMPOPC-UABest for
PBS-Mini0.1–0.5 LVertical-Wheel® 0.1 L and 0.5 LEarly R&D & feasibility screening
PBS MiniPROup to 0.5 LVertical-Wheel® 0.5 LDoE, media & feed optimization
PBS-31.8–3 LVertical-Wheel® 3 LTech transfer & GMP preparation
PBS-1510–15 LVertical-Wheel® 15 LClinical batch capacity
PBS-8040–80 LVertical-Wheel® 80 LSoonCommercial allogeneic supply
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Vertical-Wheel® Single-Use Vessels

The Purpose-Built Home for Your Cells.

Every Vertical-Wheel® system runs a pre-sterilized, single-use vessel, keeping your culture closed and contamination-free, with the same wheel geometry from 0.1 L to 80 L. Nothing to clean or re-validate between runs.

Consistent geometry across every scale: the mechanism your cells experience never changes.

Closed & single-use: reduces contamination risk and eliminates cleaning validation.

Sized for every system: Vertical-Wheel 0.1 L, 0.5 L, PRO, 3 L, 15 L and 80 L.

Interactive · Prototype

Turn the Bioreactor in Your Hands.

Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, double-click to focus. A viewer like this on each product page lets a process engineer inspect port placement, wheel geometry and the drive head without a site visit or a CAD license.

Every angle, on any device: works on desktop and touch, no plugin.

Annotated hotspots can label ports, sensors and the impeller in the final version.

One model per system: PBS-Mini through PBS-80, published from your existing CAD.

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Scale-Up Calculator

See Your Set Points at Every Scale.

Because Vertical-Wheel® scale-up is genuinely linear, one working volume and agitation rate map cleanly to every larger system. Enter yours and get the equivalent set points from PBS-Mini to PBS-80, the same CFD-validated hydrodynamic conditions at each step.

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Your bench run
Working volume0.5 L
Agitation40 rpm
Matched at 15 L
Agitation17 rpm
Mean EDRmatched
Illustrative values. Run your own numbers in the calculator.

Not Sure Which System You Need?

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