Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage

The Quad Pulse Package PX dust collector from Camfil Air Pollution Control is a compact unit for processes that produce hazardous dusts in high concentrations, with a cleanable filter system that facilitates continuous manufacturing.

Multi-faceted powder characterization, including measurement of dynamic properties, can be used to correlate powder properties and process performance to support equipment selection, optimization, and troubleshooting.

IMA Active’s new tablet press machine, Prexima, is designed to deliver higher productivity and efficiency.

The Krämer KCP10 upward-conveying capsule polisher elevates, polishes, and dedusts capsules.

Mumbai-based Cipla agreed to acquire US companies InvaGen and Exelan, giving Cipla US tablet and capsule production capacity, a more diversified portfolio, and market access.

QbD is improving the safety of solid-dosage drug products as well improving manufacturing processes, despite some industry reluctance.

Randy Wald, senior research fellow at Bend Research, part of Capsugel Dosage Form Solutions shares insights on trends shaping the evolving solid dosage manufacturing landscape, including advances in excipients and the impact on formulation development and manufacturing processes.

Elizabeth Scheu & Kniss will supply replacement parts for Bosch capsule filling machines.

WuXi PharmaTech and TruTag Technologies successfully applied and detected TruTag's edible microtags on solid-dosage drug products and found no effect on dissolution.

A study of root cause in stability samples suggests the need for tighter control of the sodium lauryl sulfate manufacturing processes.

Improved characterization of twin-screw extrusion enables increasing use in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Sepha's VisionScan Max can leak-test full production batches of blister packs.

Vacuum-conveying conditions for powders and other free-flowing solid forms can be simulated in Volkmann's new laboratory.

Electronic pharmaceutical tablet counters meet demands for accuracy, flexibility, speed, compact size, easy cleanability, and quick changeover.

ACG Worldwide discusses current and future uses of capsules in a video interview with Pharmaceutical Technology.

L.B. Bohle discussed tablet coating in a video interview with Pharmaceutical Technology.

The agency publishes guidance on the physical attributes of generic tablets and capsules.

Nic Michel, General Manager of Pharma Technology, Inc., spoke with Pharmaceutical Technology about the application of external lubrication in tablet production.

PAT holds the key to real-time quality assurance and consistent product quality in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Box-Behnken modeling was used to optimize a resinate complex, to mask the taste of levocetirizine dihydrochloride and montelukast sodium in orally disintegrating tablets.

Appropriate feeding equipment can be selected to meet the challenges of dosing powders that are sticky or do not flow well.

Economic benefits, equipment availability, research results, and FDA support are driving progress in continuous processing.

Adjusting the tablet press and its systems can prevent manufacturing and product quality problems.

A core coating module allows Roeltgen's FlexiTab development and small-batch tablet press to manufacture multi-layer and externally lubricated tablets.