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Life Sciences

Providing Tangible Value for the Life Sciences Industry

At Cross Company, our key value drivers center around customer success. With a focus on innovation, we aim to help our customers grow their businesses. Take a look at how our we provide tangible results for this industry and learn more about our Innovate, Grow, Transform initiative.

Increase Process Efficiency

Our experts work in a range of life sciences applications, and can help determine ways to increase efficiency in your process.

Improve Your Plant Efficiency

Accurate and reliable monitoring and measuring equipment including temperature, level, flow and more.

Stay Compliant

Reduce the risk of contamination with FDA-compliant hose and sanitary fittings

Increase Process Efficiency

FDA regulations are always changing. Make sure you can measure and document every part of your process to comply with the latest legislation.

Reduce Contamination Risk

Offering FDA-compliant hose and sanitary fittings
Our experts work in a range of life sciences applications, and can help determine ways to increase efficiency in your process.
Accurate and reliable monitoring and measuring equipment including temperature, level, flow and more.
Reduce the risk of contamination with FDA-compliant hose and sanitary fittings
FDA regulations are always changing. Make sure you can measure and document every part of your process to comply with the latest legislation.
Reduce Contamination Risk

Increasing Efficiency without Compromising Quality, Safety or Compliance

In the world of medical and life sciences manufacturing, technology is constantly changing.   Cross is familiar with the challenges you face, as well as the regulations you must comply with including FDA, GMP, and ISO. You need to constantly innovate to stay ahead of the competition, and we are here to partner with you  to improve your processes and product.

From HMI and software to pneumatics, valves & gripper solutions and all the electromechanical motion components required, Cross’s Automation Group is here to help. Our integrated  solutions are specifically designed to reduce your time-to-market and engineering costs while helping you comply with stringent government regulations.

When it comes to running your plant, our Process Solutions Group is with you for every step in the industrial lifecycle.  Our new products, services and integrations help you measure, analyze, control and safely operate your facility.

Cross’s precision measurement group, provides the measurement products and calibration services you need to increase quality and stay compliant.  All of our documentation can be found in our 21CFR Part 11 compliant calibration software, GageSuite.

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Life Sciences Specialties

Within the life sciences industry, our teams specialize in a range of specific applications. Take a look at everything we offer for the life sciences industry.

The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are highly regulated and face increasingly complex challenges in both R&D and manufacturing environments. Small and large molecule discovery, API production, and analytical analysis face safety regulations and ever-growing oversight requirements. Meeting and exceeding FDA, cGxP and ISO guidelines as well as being audit-ready is an ongoing challenge. From R&D to analytical to manufacturing, Cross Company has solutions to meet needs across the entire pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

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Medical device manufacturers require accurate movement, measurement, calibration and documentation to meet FDA, ISO 13485, and ISO 9001 regulations. With our ISO 17025 accreditation, Cross Company instills confidence in your production and quality system – allowing you to focus on your core business.

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A range of expertise for the life sciences industry

No matter what part of the life sciences industry you’re in, from the lab to incoming materials to packaging and maintenance, Cross Company can help. We offer a range of products, services and complete solutions for manufacturers and researchers in life sciences. Take a look at each below:

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Services

Complete Solutions

Products for the life sciences industry

High quality products for sanitary environments that are perfectly spec’d for your application

Services for the life sciences industry

We get you up and running fast and we keep you up and running for maximum efficiency

Complete solutions for the life sciences industry

Cross’s engineers can help outline, budget, design, execute, and deploy large and small scale automation and control system projects/upgrades. 

Life Sciences Industry Resources

Take a look at all these life sciences industry resources from the experts at Cross.

As an integrator we are often brought into new projects later than what would be ideal, which results in the creation of additional work for the integrator and additional cost for the customer. If the OEM or custom equipment has already been spec’ed and ordered before engaging an integrator, there…

Guide to Hose Compounds, Properties, and Their Applications When choosing the right hose for your application, it is helpful to understand the benefits of different hose materials. Before we get into the various types of rubber compounds, let’s begin with a primer into the origin of natural rubber. The para’…

How Thermal Dispersion Technology Can Benefit Your Application Thermal dispersion flow and level switches are found in a range of continuous operation applications where the most demanding and critical processes occur. This technology is the most preferred solution a range of industries such as oil and gas, wastewater treatment, chemical…

What Are The Options When Custom Machinery Fails? Custom machinery is everywhere in manufacturing because generic solutions may not work or be efficient enough. But if something happens to your custom machine, your repair or redesign options may be limited. For example, a large Tier 1 Automotive customer had several…

Technical Guide: Industrial Hose Secure Clamp Styles When it comes to industrial hose assemblies, there are multiple ways to attach fittings to a length of hose. A few of those methods include pre-formed band clamps, double bolt clamps, gear or worm drive clamps, crimpable ferrules, and crimpable sleeves. Depending on…

Life Sciences Industry News and Events

Take a look at all the resources for the life sciences industry from Cross’s manufacturing partners.

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Did you know... the precision measurement group at Cross was founded in 1939 by our current CEO's grandfather, Jim King. That's a whole lot of calibration!
Did you know... A fingerprint weighs about 50 micrograms. We know, we weighed it! The residue left from a finger can actually make a difference in weight results which is why we wear gloves when we calibrate weights. For reference, a sheet to paper is about 4.5 grams, that’s 4.5 million micrograms.
Did you know… Cross Company is an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan). Our ESOP started in 1979 and as of 2006, we are a 100% employee owned! Learn more about our ESOP and how that benefits both team members and our customers.
Did you know… Cross Company has grown significantly since our start in 1954. Over the years we've acquired 26 companies! Today, our five groups have expertise in everything from industrial automation to precision measurement, and industry knowledge going all the way back to 1939.