INSIGHTS ON SOLID DOSE MANUFACTURING
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Powder Rheology: Gateway For Tablet Sticking Insights
Powder rheology offers a scientific method to predict and mitigate tablet sticking issues, helping to ensure smoother pharmaceutical production cycles through early material and tooling selection.
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Zhunan Facility Site VR Tour
Bora’s 36,000-square-meter Zhunan, Taiwan facility delivers flexible, high-quality cGMP oral solid dose manufacturing with access to major markets including North America and the EU.
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Lower Punch Tip Bending / Buckling
When manufacturing mini-tablets, adjusting punch force ratings is crucial to prevent bending or buckling. The Rankine-Gordon formula offers a safer force rating for microtip tooling.
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The Crucial Role Of Cleaning In Effective VPHP Decontamination For Isolators
Effective isolator cleaning is crucial for vapor phase hydrogen peroxide (VPHP) decontamination. Proper tools, techniques, and training ensure sterility, and regulatory compliance.
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Layer By Layer: 3D Screen Printing And The Future Of Drug Development8/15/2025
3D screen printing can produce tablets across a range of release profiles, from conventional immediate release tablets to multi-compartment drug delivery systems that mix different release profiles.
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The Art And Science Of Pre-Picking Tablet Designs7/30/2024
Picking and sticking are the most common tablet defects that can reduce your product quality and performance. This makes perfecting the right pre-picking strategy essential to improving your processes.
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The Importance Of Tablet Density Uniformity10/7/2025
Non-uniform density causes many tablet failures. Learn how optimizing your formulation, tablet proportions, and tooling design ensures proper de-aeration for consistent quality.
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Shaping The Future Of Solid Dose Manufacturing With Hot Melt Extrusion2/27/2025
Enhance your drug development strategies today and master hot melt extrusion by learning about excipient selection, equipment setup, novel screening tools, and process optimization.
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M6 Tablet Metal Detector For Pharmaceutical And Nutraceutical Production8/15/2025
Ensure the safety and quality of your tablets and capsules with a metal detector designed for stability and high sensitivity in pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production.
SOLID DOSE MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS
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When AST came to the table on the design for our new fill-finish isolator, one of the first areas AST engineers wanted to address was the usability and accessibility of the isolator and corresponding operations. With our customers’ point of view in mind, we wanted to address specific points of friction routinely encountered by operators and closely examine whether those friction points were necessary.
Does an isolator need to be ergonomically unfriendly to clean?
Should simple mechanisms like isolator doors be challenging to engage? (As much as one can appreciate exercise, no one wants to do “arm day” in cleanroom coveralls).
Does routine maintenance have to be time-consuming and laborious?
Many of these factors are accepted as par for the course in aseptic fill-finish manufacturing. Our question was, why?
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Used Shionogi Qualicaps capsule checkweigher, model CWI-40, nominally rated up to 40000 capsules/hour throughput, with weigh check option, capsule reject system, stainless steel feed hopper, includes size 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 change parts with HMI touchscreen, serial# S0053, built 2004.
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The semi-automated capsule filler is part of the Explore Range, offering the potential to simplify formulation by eliminating the need for additional ‘formulation for powder filling’ steps.
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Dec excels in providing comprehensive technical solutions for packing powders into bags and drums from process equipment discharge such as a dryer or a mixer, milling and dispensing to the final packing of the product.
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Dec provide custom designed isolators for dispensing and/or sampling from various containers such as bags and drums into intermediate packagings or for direct charging into process equipment. These systems offer high containment and a controlled environment offering fast cleaning and drying features allowing for swift product changes.