Equipment suppliers are helping the pharmaceutical industry move towards adoption of continuous tablet production. Continuous manufacturing has been common practice in many industries for decades, but ...

Efforts to tackle challenges in tablet manufacture are shaped by quality by design (QbD) and continuous manufacturing. Experts take a look at the journey travelled thus far and where pharmaceutical ...

Caffeine anhydrate was used as a core active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), and DC tablets were made by the direct compression method. Near-infrared (NIR) spectra were obtained from these intact DC ...

Powders are widely used in pharmaceuticals as active ingredients or excipients in formulations. As a result, several production processes are used for handling powders: wet and dry granulation, ...

There are a number of different steps involved in the tableting process of pharmaceutical powders. The most important of these is of course the filling of the die, and the compaction of the powder. It ...

The pharmaceutical industry is heavily dependent on quality compressed air. It is used for accomplishing various pneumatic processes required throughout the processing, manufacturing, and packaging of ...

In the annals of napkin illustration, continuous drug tablet manufacturing may have only one entry: Fernando Muzzio’s 2003 depiction of a tableting line for Janet Woodcock, then head of the US Food ...

The advantages of continuous over batch manufacturing are well known. Continuous production systems allow for leaner and risk-reduced development paths, leaner supply chains, increased built-in ...