coating

This educational booklet from Glatt gives a great insight on the technologies and processes to coat powders, pellets and micropellets. Introduction Fluid bed processes were originally used in chemical process technology. Fluid bed drying saw its first use in the pharmaceutical industry at the…
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The growing trend for natural and organic food color is resulting in shift from titanium dioxide, a synthetic ingredient, towards titanium-free food color alternatives and extracting food colors from alternative natural sources. Natural food color sources include astaxanthin, beta carotene, annatto,…
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With OSeeT by Phyllon you can get up to 400 images of pellets in one minute and you can measure thickness, roughness and homogeneity of the filmcoating. For single layer, multi-layers, in-line or at-line, for pellets, mini-tablets, tablets, without chemometric calibration - just a direct…
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Following the intro- duction of the continuous Glatt Modcos system, Glatt is working together with partner Driam to close a gap in the production process by incorporating continuous tablet coating. Like Modcos, the continuous Driaconti-T system enables complete traceability of every tablet as well…
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Real-time Monitoring of Coating Quality at Industrial Scale Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is increasingly being used for studies of pharmaceutical film coating. OCT allows fast and non-destructive analysis of the coating thickness and quality via high-resolution cross-sectional images.…
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The aim of the current study is to optimize the bed fluidized coating process of mini tablets by means of an acoustic levitator. The optimized coating parameters, which have to be set in a fluidized bed reactor, can be determined by means of contactless levitation of a single mini tablet in an…
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There a many reasons for coating of different pharmaceutical products such as pellets, granules, capsules, powders and crystals. In this article, we will concentrate on the film-coating of tablets. The procedure of coating tablets is a complex process that results in the forming of a thin layer…
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Spouted beds (SBs) have a long history of successful applications for preparation of solid dosage forms of pharmaceuticals. The well-known versatility of SBs, provided by different design and operational factors, and their efficient mixing of solids allow for engineering of technological…
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