Handling Difficult Powders in Solid-Dosage Manufacturing

May 22, 2015

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

Sharon Nowak, business development manager at Coperion K-Tron Food & Pharmaceutical Industries, spoke with Pharmaceutical Technology about the challenges of feeding powders in pharmaceutical processes and the equipment available to feed difficult powders, including equipment for continuous manufacturing processes.