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200

This Boulder employee is the best QA Employee.

Who is any QA employee?

200

This conference room is the main hub for KBI Boulder meetings and inspections.

What is Longs / Meeker?

200

These 3 letter pieces of equipment house our most valuable materials, and we have a whole farm of them. This is the letters and their meaning.

What are CTUs, Controlled Temperature Units?

200

This water can be used in manufacturing as long as it is prior to the endotoxin clearance process step.

What is PW, Purified Water?

200

This fast food chain is no longer in close proximity to KBI.

What is Wendy's? 


400

This Boulder employee is the Associate Director of Facilities Maintenance.

Who is Susan Temme?

400
This is the building number for the manufacturing plant.

What is 2590?

400

This piece of equipment ensures the cells are "all shook up"

What is the incubator / shaker?

400

Water must reach this temperature to convert to clean steam.

What is 144 degC?

400

This team performs analyses to identify extraneous material, track particulate stability and comparability, and supports >100 external clients annually.

What is the Particle Characterization Core (PCC)?

600

Any one of the seven employees who have been with KBI since 31Jan2014.

Who is Amy Ridl, Bryn Grimison, David Krank, Emil Raubach, Mark Sleevi, Rob Marrs, or Dale Quick.

600

This conference room is utilized mainly by Facilities, Maintenance, and Engineering.

What is Mt. Snowmass?

600

This equipment subjects cells to pressure up to 200-250 times our atmosphere. It is a real cell breaker!

What is the homogenizer?

600

The Microbiology department performs this activity to ensure Utilities meet requirements for use.

What is Clean Utilities Monitoring?

600

This differentiates a peach from a nectarine.

What is fuzzy skin on peaches, smooth on nectarines: skin texture gene variant.

800

This Boulder employee was born in New Zealand and started working for KBI in 2023.

Who is Thomas Kelland?

800

These buildings have people elevators.

What is 2500 and 2545. Bonus if you noted that the elevator in 2500 is CREEPY.

800

These instruments are the workhorses for much of our analytical in-process and release testing. They use columns for sample analysis, but they're way smaller than the columns used in the plant.

What are HPLCs / UPLCs?

800

This is the number of Plant Steam Boilers housed in Bldg 2590

What is two?

800

This is the name of the plastic end of a shoelace.

What is an aglet.

1000

This Boulder employee is the MVP of the site - nay, the entire company!

Who is Jen Gilette?

1000

This building contains the Downstream PD lab.

What is 5797?

1000

This equipment is used to determine Protein concentration in under 30 seconds.

What is the SoloVPE?

1000

The Purified Water system is sanitized using either of these two methods.

What is Heat and Ozone?

1000

This Quality Associate Director recently got engaged.

Who is Jesse Beckman?