Greater awareness and increasing popularity among consumers to select drugs or food supplements exhibiting a clean label is a trend that producers are unable to ignore. The IMA Active laboratory explores...
Tim Lin, Director of the Technical Services Department, Bora, discusses the benefits of utilising Wurster coating technology, laying out steps to overcome challenges and optimise controlled-release profiles for efficient and effective drug delivery.
Prashant Deshpande, Head, Process & Technology Support at ACG Engineering, discusses the critical process parameters of film coating and the measurement, monitoring and recording of tablet bed temperature in batch manufacturing.
Bluepharma, a Portuguese pharmaceutical company, has opened an industrial unit specialising in the production of oral solid high-potent drugs, namely in the oncology area.
Here Dr. Thomas Kendall, application specialist at crystallisation and solid-state specialist Technobis Crystallization Systems, gives a perspective on the benefits of co-crystals and explains how they can be screened.
Dr. Sandeep Kumar, Formulation Development manager, Colorcon, sheds light on how selecting an excipient in early formulation development is critical to developing a robust scalable SOD formulation and can help the transition from capsule to tablet.
In this case study, IMA Active has recently upgraded its continuous tablet-coating solution with the installation of OMRON's vision system equipped with a high-speed colour camera and dome light.
Dr. Klaus Pollinger and Dr. Martina Breuer, Aenova Group, explore the challenges of development and commercial manufacturing of oral solid dosage forms, from a CDMO perspective.
Jon Carlisle, encapsulation technical service manager, Natoli Encapsulation Division, examines the function and optimal set-up of tamper-style encapulsation machines to increase product yield.
