Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage

Experts from Colorcon share insights on how manufacturers can play a role in minimizing the risk of medication errors by ensuring that the medicines they develop are well differentiated, especially between dosages of the same product.

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting patient-centric formulation development to ensure that drug products adequately meet the needs of end-users in all target patient populations.

Model-based formulation and technology selection methodologies facilitate rapid product development.

Eli Lilly was awarded the 2017 FOYA Overall Winner for its continuous direct compression manufacturing installation projects.

The company has passed inspection by the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, and is now licensed to develop, manufacture, and pack non-potent and potent solid oral drug products at its site in Loughborough, England.

Support from FDA, a best practice guide, collaborative research, and new facilities signify progress in solid-dosage continuous manufacturing.

Continuous twin-screw granulation offers several options for increasing production scale. Thermo Fisher Scientific explains factors to consider in scale-up projects for manufacturing oral solid-dosage drugs.

This study shows that the presence of API lumps can be detected by inline NIR, and elaborates on why NIR sensor dimensions and actual measured sample volume by the NIR sensor are important variables for adequate interpretation of obtained results.

Functionalized calcium carbonate provides high porosity, which enables fast disintegration, and excellent compactibility that results in harder tablets at low compression forces.

Eric Jayjock, Patheon’s director of continuous manufacturing, discusses the CDMO’s plans for its new continuous manufacturing business.

Recro Gainsville expands its tableting capacity with the addition of a tablet press and film coater.

Oral solid-dosage and parenteral drug manufacturing equipment and systems have made great strides in safety and efficiency.

Anil Kane, executive director, Global Head of Technical & Scientific Affairs at Patheon, shared his perspective of changes to solid-dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Tablet coating from DISONA can handle batch sizes up to 3 kg.

Materials and equipment innovations have advanced tablet coating from sugar to copolymers and simplified pharma production.

Pharma’s test of continuous manufacturing is starting with oral solid-dosage forms.

Takeda inaugurated expanded capacity of solid-dosage drugs at its site in Oranienburg, Germany.

The European Medicines Agency approved Prezista (darunavir) made via a continuous manufacturing process at Janssen's facility in Puerto Rico.

At an industry seminar hosted by Leistritz Extrusion, experts explained the use of extrusion equipment to mix polymeric excipients with APIs for solubility enhancement and for multifunctional and specialty dosage forms, including implants.

Saneca has been granted approval to manufacture and supply multiple dosage forms to Russia.  

Bosch’s Xelum platform is designed for continuous production of oral solid-dosage forms.

Learn how to prevent common causes of product loss.

Although technical paths for continuous solid-dosage manufacturing have been laid out and equipment and control systems have been developed, industry is slow to move forward.

Design of experiment plays a crucial role in the optimization process of formulation development.

Anil Kane, executive director, Global Head of Formulation Sciences, Pharmaceutical Development Services at Patheon discusses key parameters in the development and manufacturing of oral solid-dosage forms.

A chlorine dioxide sterilization cycle was developed for a novel split-valve aseptic powder transfer device.

A venture between GEA and Siemens aims to familiarize more pharmaceutical companies with more modern control and continuous processing.

This novel technology was developed in response to challenges involved in conventional manufacturing of multilayer tablets, including in-line control of the tablet weight, the tendency to delamination, direct contact between the two tablet layers, and cross contamination.

This article summarizes the evolution of the viscosity standards and their corresponding applications in the USP−NF compendia.

A case study reviews the reformulation and scale up of high drug load prototype using wet granulation process for a model formulation.