Manufacturing Equipment, Solid Dose Drugs

The India Expo Mart in Delhi will host CPhI and P-MEC India with expected attendance of 50,000.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s capsule filling machine for small batches of hard capsules uses a fully automated, washable containment process.

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik has added compact continuous agglomeration equipment and new control systems to its "modular plant engineering" portfolio.

GEA and Perceptive Engineering will collaborate to promote and deploy multivariate monitoring and advanced process control (APC) solutions for batch and continuous pharmaceutical process units.

Netzsch will present a new compact grinding/separating system, LabCompactPlus, for chemical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic laboratories at Achema 2018.

As more continuous processes move toward commercialization, users and equipment vendors are working to speed changeovers and address other needs.

The tablet tooling manufacturer will showcase its products and services, which include an online training package and a tool management system for proactive monitoring of tooling rotations, inventory, and maintenance.

L.B. Bohle’s QbCon 1 laboratory-scale, continuous twin-screw granulator and dryer offers fully continuous drying for R&D in continuous solid-dosage manufacturing.

A new facility will allow Fette Compacting to double its production capacity for tablet presses in Nanjing, China.

Romaco will display the IHD series for processing hot melt coatings at Achema 2018.

Honeywell’s Experion Batch visualization technology provides operators with improved visibility, simplified maintenance, and faster validation.

Natoli acquired Carlisle Precision Machining, which supplies replacement parts for encapsulation equipment.

The Visiocover from GEA is a transparent sanitary cover for visual inspection of and process access to non-sticky-powder processes.

Process analytical technology and advanced process control strategies can be applied to either batch or continuous manufacturing of solid-dosage drugs.

This article presents considerations for preventing hazards associated with dust in pharmaceutical production, particularly as relates to the United Kingdom's Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations.

Tableting instruments (i.e., compaction simulators) that simulate high-speed presses can be used in a quality-by-design (QbD) approach to perform in-depth material characterization and direct scale-up.

The company has made an equipment donation to Purdue University's continuous manufacturing research program.

Closures that protect solid-dosage drugs and the capping equipment that applies them have new product-protecting features.

PTI moved to a new facility in Belgium that will house its headquarters and a R&D center for tablet dedusting, capsule polishing, and testing technology.

Fette Compacting and Glatt have joined forces to develop integrated solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid-dosage drug forms.

A pneumatic cover lift for the Witte fluid bed dryer raises the cover for cleaning and inspection.

Alfa Laval rotary jet heads can be installed in small tank openings to replace static spray ball or rotary spray heads.

Industry experts were honored for business, scientific, and social contributions.

Coperion K-Tron has added the K3-PH-ML-D4-QT35 design to the company’s K3-PH line of feeders for a variety of continuous processes, and will showcase the feeder at the 2017 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo.

Bosch Packaging Technology’s AFG filling and closing machine for pharmaceutical powders in glass vials offers manufacturers a wide range of options.

Fluid Air’s PolarDry spray dryers use electrostatic technology, providing low-temperature spray drying, encapsulation, and selective agglomeration in the creation of particles.

Ross, Charles & Son’s SysCon, a full-service machine and controls fabrication facility, added wireless connection to its control panel.

Vac-U-Max’s MDL15 combustible dust air-vac offers high-volume cleanup of powders and combustible dusts from floors, walls, machinery, and overhead surfaces.

Innovative new technologies released over the past several months seek to enhance bio/pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. 

The MDL15 combustible dust air-vac from Vac-U-Max is part of the company’s industrial vacuum cleaning product range for combustible dusts and offers high-volume cleanup of powders and combustible dusts.