01. October 2018

In this study, a set of 24 experiments was designed to understand the combined effect of different process parameters, i.e. material feed rate, liquid-to-solid (L/S) ratio, screw speed, and screw configuration on the residence time distribution, granule morphology, and particle size distribution in twin screw wet granulation of microcrystalline cellulose. It was shown that residence times were longer at higher L/S and lower screw speeds. However, the most dominant effect on mean residence time...

30. April 2018

Metformin has a poor tabletability and flowability. Therefore, metformin is typically wet granulated with a binder before tableting. To save production costs, it would be desirable to implement a roll compaction/dry granulation (RCDG) process for metformin instead of using wet granulation. In order to implement RCDG, the efficiency of dry binders is crucial to ensure a high drug load and suitable properties of dry granules and tablets. This study evaluates dry granules manufactured by RCDG and...

26. April 2018

Are you a manufacturer of raw materials for the food, nutraceutical or pharmaceutical industry and interested to increase your product performance or functionality? Are topics like Dust free Solubility Protection Taste masking Targeted release Particle size Flowability relevant to you or for the life cycle management of your product? Then come to speak with the experts from IPC Process Center @Vitafoods Geneva Stand T167 - May 15-17, 2018. If not attending just drop us an email. Further...

09. March 2018

The use of amorphous solid dispersions (ASD) to overcome poor drug solubility has gained interest in the pharmaceutical industry over the past decade. ASDs are challenging to formulate because they are thermodynamically unstable, and the dispersed drugs tend to recrystallize. Until now, most research on ASDs has focused on immediate-release formulations, supersaturation, and stability; only a few studies have recently reported on the manufacturing of sustained-release ASDs.

26. November 2017

Many physical responses of powders, granules, and compacts such as powder flow and tensile strength are determined largely by their absolute and relative densities (1–8). Although measuring these properties is a simple task, a review of the literature reveals that a combined source of density data that formulation scientists can refer to does not exist.

15. March 2016

As dry granulation as a continuous process becomes steadily more important, the interest of different materials and their processing is growing. Binders are of high importance as they have to compensate granule hardening, reduce the fines, and ensure adequate tablet tensile strengths. A simple formulation was used for roll compaction/dry granulation with subsequent tableting to produce granules and tablets, containing paracetamol (70% w/w), a filler and a binder (10%). With this formulation...