INSIGHTS ON SOLID DOSE MANUFACTURING
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![GettyImages-488719432-bilayer-tablet-OSD-oral-solid]( "The Art And Science Of Pre-Picking Tablet Designs")
The Art And Science Of Pre-Picking Tablet DesignsPicking 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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![GettyImages-2002525379-production-solid-dose-capsules]( "Patient Adherence With A Novel Dosage Form")
Patient Adherence With A Novel Dosage FormA sprinkle formulation helps patients with tremors or dysphagia take medication more easily, improving adherence, comfort, and care through a novel, FDA-approved oral granule format.
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![Weight Loss_GettyImages-2123088969]( "Advancements In GLP-1 Analog Formulation: Overcoming Challenges")
Advancements In GLP-1 Analog Formulation: Overcoming ChallengesOral GLP-1 formulations represent a groundbreaking advance in obesity treatment to offer improved patient comfort and adherence while expanding the therapeutic market.
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![GettyImages-2151878896_carboxymethyl-cellulose]( "Rheological Properties Of Pharmaceutical Excipients: Lactose Monohydrate And Carboxymethyl Cellulose")
Rheological Properties Of Pharmaceutical Excipients: Lactose Monohydrate And Carboxymethyl CelluloseExplore lactose monohydrate and CMC rheology, highlighting their flow, cohesion, and compressibility properties to optimize pharmaceutical formulations under varying stress and temperature conditions.
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Fundamentals Of Power Blending Simulations2/26/2025
Predicting blending quality doesn't have to be a guessing game. Learn how to leverage virtual prototypes to make informed decisions and minimize costly trial-and-error in tablet manufacturing.
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Exploring The Future Of Tablet Compression Across Emerging Industries11/18/2025
Many growing industries face universal tablet compression challenges, demanding better tooling, tighter process control, and more integrated data to ensure product consistency and reliable scale-up.
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Tablet Consistency And Punch Length – A Pragmatic Perspective For European Manufacturers10/7/2025
Tablet consistency relies on a balance of formulation, press mechanics, and tooling. Learn why punch length tolerance is often overstated and what other critical factors truly drive quality and uniformity.
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Orally-Disintegrating Dosage Forms With Taste Masked Multiparticulates7/17/2024
Learn more about our orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) capabilities and how these innovative technologies have the potential to improve acceptance, adherence, and compliance in pharmacotherapy.
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Seizing Market Share Pre-Patent Expiry: The Evolution Of A CDMO Partnership In Navigating A Paragraph IV ANDA Submission6/26/2024
The dynamic pharmaceutical landscape demands agility and strategic foresight. Explore how leveraging a key partnership helped to overcome a looming patent expiry for a second-generation acne medication.
SOLID DOSE MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS
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![Bench-Top Syringe Cartridge Closing System]( "Pharmaceutical Bench-Top Filling & Closing Machines: GENiSYS® Lab")
AST’s line of table-top machines, GENiSYS® Lab, are ideal systems for drug product development and cGMP production applications. Each system is designed to automate the critical aseptic operations for vial, syringe and cartridge processing to reduce contamination risk and product variability. These table-top systems are engineered to have complete compatibility with cleanroom environments, including Laminar Air Flow Hoods, Bio-Safety Cabinets and aseptic isolators.
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![Fed Equipment - Kikusui tablet press]( "Used Kikusui 36 Station Pharmaceutical Tablet Press: AQUARIUS G-J")
Used Kikusui tablet in tablet press, model Aquarius G-J/DC, 36 station, keyed upper punch guides, B tooled, 100 kN pre-compression, 100 kN main compression, 16mm max tablet diameter, 18mm max depth of fill, rated up to 259,200 tablets/hour, with DC module for core feeder, 4-15mm core depth adjustment, with integrated primary and secondary powder feed hoppers, and core feed hopper, project# 1-6302, built 2009.
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![API Mfg]( "API Manufacturing And Material Handling Equipment")
Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing requires powder handling in a GMP and contained manner. Similar to chemical manufacturing, operations like charging powders into a chemical reactor, emptying a centrifuge or charging and discharging a dryer are standard processes.
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![Sterile Mfg]( "Sterile Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Equipment And Technologies")
Recent years have shown steady growth in manufacturing sterile, high potent products in the pharmaceutical industry. Antibiotics for intravenous or intramuscular injection in powder form such as Ceftriaxone Sodium for example, need to be produced under sterile conditions.
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![Big Bag Pharma]( "Big Bag Pharmaceutical Filling System For Drums, Boxes, Flexible IBC's")
If you handle multiple packaging, Dec can help in providing one single multi-packaging filling station handling FIBCs, drums, cardboard boxes etc.).
