FT4 Powder Rheometer Features In Award-Winning Posters
Freeman Technology's FT4 Powder Rheometer played an important role in work presented in two out of the four posters to win awards given by the Excipients Focus Group at last November's 2010 AAPS Annual Meeting & Exposition.
Winners Maitri Trivedi and Rutesh Dave from Long Island University used the FT4 in their work ‘To develop and evaluate new methodology for excipients compatibility together with APIs using rheological and thermal tools', while a team headed by Qi Tony Zhou from Monash University examined ‘ Novel applications of traditional lubricants using a dry particle coating technique to improve the functionality of cohesive drug or excipient powders'.
Widely used within the pharmaceutical and other industries, the FT4 Powder Rheometer is a universal powder tester that uses patented dynamic methodology, fully automated shear cells and several bulk property tests, including density, compressibility and permeability to quantify powder properties in terms of flow and processability. Correlating this data with processing performance enables users to optimise powder processes.
About Freeman Technology
Freeman Technology specialises in providing systems for the measurement of powder flow properties and has over a decade of experience in powder flow and powder characterisation. With a significant commitment to R&D and applications development, the company delivers extensive know-how alongside its universal powder tester, the FT4 Powder Rheometer. An expert team guides and supports users in addressing their individual powder challenges, the process relevance of powder characterisation data being a key focus. The result is world-leading solutions for understanding powder behaviour, whether in development, scale-up, processing, quality control, or wherever powders have a role. In April 2007 the company received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation.
Freeman systems are installed around the world in a diverse range of industries -chemical, pharmaceutical, toners, foods, powder coatings, metals, ceramics, cosmetics and many others. Correlating the powder data they supply with processing performance enables clients to quantify and exploit operational experience to optimise their processes.
SOURCE: Freeman Technology Ltd