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• Flexibility, Data Capture Drive Latest Generation of Capsule Fillers
  Reliability continues to top the list of critical capsule filler qualities, although flexibility has become important, too. Machines must be quickly and easily adjustable to accommodate an increasingly wide variety of products and dosages. Machine builders also are setting new standards in both...
• Space-Saving Machine Counts, Fills and Caps
  The latest addition to Romaco's line of Bosspak rotary tablet and capsule counters, the RTC80 measures only 1.4 by 1.74 meters yet incorporates counting, filling and capping functions in a single machine. In addition to its space-saving footprint, the machine is uniquely suited to sterile tablet...
• Interphex 2006 Preview: The Best of the Phex
  will exhibit a Pharma feeder and a working K-Tron PCS vacuum receiver. The Planeta continuous-motion capsule filler has over-encapsulation capabilities and a modular design that allows for different dosing units to be fitted at the same time. It can fill powders (including low-dose applications), pellets (up...
• What to Expect at Interphex 2007
  , a manufacturer of pharmaceutical packaging machinery, will be showing the GKF1400L capsule filler with liquid fill module, the FSX2020 nested syringe filler, the KKE2500 checkweigher with tablet feeder, the KWE4000 small package checkweigher, and the new FLT tabletop vial-filling system. ( A division...
• Succeeding with Encapsulation Scaleup
  blend. Granulations can be even more challenging to scale up than direct-blend capsule formulations. Not only must process parameters be optimized, but the composition of the formulation, including components such as binder solution, must also be defined. The most important properties to consider...
• HP: Serializing the Tablet, Courting Big Pharma
  ), which is partnering with HP and several other vendor companies to offer full-service tablet- or capsule-level anticounterfeiting solutions. HP has been working on its inks and fluids for on-tablet printing for some time now, particularly at its Puerto Rico facilities. It is in talks with Pfizer...
• Creative Isolation at Schering-Plough, Las Piedras
  was made to put the equipment into a single multi-chamber isolator. We had lots of questions, says Moreno. How are we going to clean the equipment? How can we maintain it? In addition, an existing capsule-filling machine (encapsulator) had to be adapted to enhance dust containment and operator...
• Demystifying GMPs for Nutritional Supplements
  and is not represented for use as a conventional food or as the sole item of a meal or the diet. The definition describes the variety of forms -- capsule, powder, softgel, gelcap, tablet, liquid, or other form -- by which these products can be ingested. In addition to laying the foundation for a regulatory...
• Medical Device Link .
  connection. The manufacturer can also customize the machine to meet customer needs. P.O. Box 9144, San Rafael, CA 94912-9144. A series of high-speed, computer-controlled pressure formers are capable of preheat, form, punch, die-cut, trim, stack, and automatic unload of trays, capsule blisters...
• Six Sigma Lessons from Capsugel
  return with a payback in less than one year. The bulk of the investment was in the training and materials; by using existing staff the company didn t incur any overhead costs, except for the cost of hiring the global Six Sigma manager. Early results include: improvements on our capsule imprinting...

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