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From: dietz@SLB-DOLL.CSNET (Paul Dietz)
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Subject: Re: Re: spinoffs
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Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 18:15:34 EST
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> I think the productivity of the CFES experiments has been something like
> four HUNDRED times that on Earth and may go higher.  Also, what about the
> monodisperse latex reactor experiments with the uniform spheres?  Can
> THAT be done on Earth?

The production rate of CFES is 400x higher than CFES done on earth, not
400x better than other techniques.  Ortho Pharmaceutical, which was 
Mcdonnell-Douglas's partner in the project, has pulled out, saying they
can now purify the drugs as cheaply on earth.  Also the 400x better
is raw production rates, not cost of the final product.

The latex reactor is why I said "large scale" space manufacturing.  It
was a one-shot run of a speciality product with very limited demand.