Tablet Production Featured Articles
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Quadro Vac® Dust-Free Milling System Used For Tablet Production
11/1/2005
Quadro Engineering recently supplied a Quadro® Comil® and Quadro Vac® to the research laboratories of a large multi-national pharmaceutical manufacturer for use in tablet production. The Quadro Vac® Clean Grinding System was selected after trials were carried out and compared with systems employing high-speed Hammermills.
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Dust-Free Conveying Of Tablet Ingredients
11/30/2004
One of the biggest tablet press enemies is dust. Dust is a natural by-product of milling and can be extremely abrasive due to the hardness of the ingredients used in tablet production. If left uncontrolled, dust will settle on your tablet punches and pressure rolls causing pitting, which leads to imperfections in the final product
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Manufacturing Vs. R&D: The Problem Is Powder Flowability
Tablet production depends on steady flow of powder from a feed hopper to the tablet machine. Hang ups are unwelcome because they interrupt production and manufacturing must execute a rigorous restart procedure. The blame, whether deserved or not, falls on R&D because they have responsibility for evaluating formulations for proper scale up and smooth processability. By Bob G. McGregor, General Manager, Brookfield Engineering
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Investigation Of New Level Technologies In Single Use, Disposable Systems
This article presents guided wave radar level measurement as an acceptable, less expensive alternate to load cell systems. By David Ladoski and Dan Klees
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Valves And Control Heads: A Combination To Facilitate The Next-Generation Of Plants
Maintaining sterile process conditions is a vital but daunting task for manufacturers. Separation processes like filtration and chromatography place considerable demands on sterile systems and must be done properly to ensure the purity of media.