Armor Pharma

The study documents the flower-like lactose particles as potential carriers to improve Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) efficiency. The lactose particles (LMx, LMf) are prepared by anti-solvent crystallization and compared with commercial lactose carriers (Inhalac 251; LMc). Formulations of 1.48% w/w drug…
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Developing a robust roller compaction process can be challenging, due to the diversity in process parameters and material properties of the components in a formulation. A major challenge in dry granulation is the reduction of tablet strength as a result of re-compaction of the materials. The aim of…
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Pharmaceutical tablets can be produced on different kinds of presses that may have very different compaction kinematics. Strain rate sensitivity (SRS) is thus an important property for the powders used to produce pharmaceutical tablets. Viscoelasticity is one of the aspects of the SRS and can be…
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Pellets are spherical agglomerated particles used to produce multiparticulate pharmaceutical dosage forms. This study aims to develop a new approach that evaluates the deformation behavior of pellets under compression, by combining tableting data and compression models with X-ray micro computed…
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CPhI worldwide opens its real doors again after one year of digital trade show! This year in Milan at the Fiera Milano. Next week, from 9th to 11th November, you can finally have a face-to-face chat with visitors and exhibitors again. As usual, InnoPack, P-MEC, FDF, ICSE and BioProduction will be…
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Floating drug delivery system of famciclovir was developed to prolong gastric residence time, target stomach mucosa and increase drug bioavailability by using different polymers like HPMC E15, Xanthan gum, methyl cellulose and compritol 888 ATO with different concentration. Famciclovir capable of…
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Stimulated by Pharma 4.0, the pharmaceutical industry is changing from batch-wise to continuous manufacturing. Therefore, individual processing steps such as blending of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) with excipients have to be re-designed to continuous operations. Highlights…
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Elastic properties are of particular interest during the development of tablets especially for the definition of the formulation and of the process parameters. Impulse excitation, which is used in several industrial fields to determine elastic properties of materials, is presented in this article as…
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Evolution of the compaction properties of powders with the compaction speed (strain rate sensitivity, SRS) is a common phenomenon during the manufacturing of pharmaceutical tablets. Nevertheless, several different phenomena can be responsible of the SRS like friction, viscoelasticity,…
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Dynamic avalanche testing is a newer method useful even with cohesive powder samples. To evaluate flow properties of pharmaceutical powder excipients, break energy (BE) is introduced as a new promising avalanche parameter. Conventional pharmacopoeial methods and an annular shear cell were utilized…
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