Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage

Collaboration and new tools aid efforts to implement new processing technologies for small-molecule drug product manufacturing.

Innovations address supply-chain constraints, serialization, and new requirements for sustainable and patient-centric designs.

Innovations address sustainable and patient-centric designs.

Process performance metrics of eight different mechanical devices were assessed to evaluate compliance with regulatory and compendial criteria.

Smart manufacturing transforms management of tablet and capsule equipment and processes.

CordenPharma will build a clinical trial development facility for manufacture of oral solid dosage drug products at its Plankstadt facility near Heidelberg, Germany.

Gernot Warnke, Head of R&D, JRS Pharma, spoke about excipients and how these relate to feeding in batch and continuous manufacturing.

Sharon Nowak, Business Development Manager, Coperion K-Tron USA Food & Pharmaceutical Industries spoke about feeding equipment in solid-dosage drug manufacturing.

Fernando Muzzio, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, spoke about trends in continuous manufacturing of OSD drugs.

Johannes Khinast, PhD, Institute for Process and Particle Engineering in the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) at the Graz University of Technology in Austria, spoke about continuous manufacturing of OSD drugs.

Dave DiProspero, director of Pharmaceutical Process Technology at CRB, spoke about equipment trends in solid-dosage drug manufacturing.

Evolving equipment designs meet the unique needs of continuous processing techniques.

The potential for okra gum as a polymer candidate for new oral drug formulations was evaluated.

Dosage form priorities are shifting to focus on user-friendliness, leading to greater engagement with outsourcing partners earlier in development timelines.

Recent research has highlighted the underlying mechanisms of amorphous solid dispersions and theory behind the formation of drug-rich phases.

CPI has revealed an agreement with DFE Pharma, making it the latest partner of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) collaboration.

In the present investigation, the fixed-dose combination (FDC) tablet of Atorvastatin calcium and Ezetimibe was prepared by a quality-by-design approach using two-level factorial design.

Researchers from the United Kingdom, have identified a new additive manufacturing method that enables the 3D printing of medicine in highly porous structures.

The collaboration will evaluate Nanoform’s fast dissolution nanoparticles in Aprecia’s ZipDose 3DP technology platform for buccal and oral drug delivery.

Topical drugs are attractive to patients, but these complex products pose challenges for formulators.

In-vitro and in-silico tools can help predict in-vivo outcomes for low-solubility drugs formulated as spray-dried dispersions.

Raman spectroscopy delivers real time, non-destructive process insights for critical process parameters to monitor pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Manufacturers of oral solid dose pharmaceutical formulations need PAT tools to reduce a product’s time-to-market and increase profitability.

Tests evaluated commercial rotary tablet presses to see how effectively they deal with problems such as poor flow, overlubrication, and capping.

Dosage-level authentication provides an added digital layer of security for pharmaceutical companies to ensure their products are not exposed to falsification.

Aprecia's compression-free 3DP manufacturing platform and Glatt’s multiparticulate technologies offer solutions to pharmaceutical dosage design challenges.

Advanced manufacturing technologies are available, but challenges need to be addressed.

The films are now available in three options of varying thickness for added protection against moisture and oxygen.

This paper reviews considerations for the formulation of chewable tablets including sensory characteristics, chewability assessment, and drug release.

Amorphous solid dispersions are a useful tool in overcoming solubility issues, but they have not yet reached full potential in commercial success.