Coating is an important unit operation used to either modify colour, give protection, for taste masking or to create a modified release form. In pharmaceutical production, GEA Pharma Systems is able to offer all the typically used coating technologies and assist with the selection of the process that best suits our customer needs.
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- FlexStream™ our new fluid bed system offers multiple processes from a single bowl (including pellet and tablet coating) providing both flexibility and cost benefits.
Fluid Bed Coating
Precision-Coater™ by Aeromatic-Fielder™
Used for smaller particles, such as powders, granules, seeds, crystals, pellets, and small tablets. The product is coated and partially dried by being blown upward through a central column with atomized liquid and drying air ... Read more and download
NEW FlexStream™ (patent pending) Fluid Bed Processor
FlexStream™ is a NEW Multi-Purpose Processor from GEA Pharma Systems – Using proven Aeromatic-Fielder fluid bed technology to achieve fluid bed granulation, drying and pellet coating (or tablet coating) in ONE processor ... Read more and download
Technical article: Fluid Bed Precision-Coating™ Technology for Improved Yield, Enhanced Product Quality - Reduced Process Time and Easier Scale-up
Coating technology has many applications in the pharmaceutical industry for taste masking and drug release control. Fluid bed coating is particularly suitable for smaller particles and pellets. In this article, Dr Harald Stahl, from GEA Pharma Systems, explains how the unique airflow within the Aeromatic-Fielder™ Precision-Coater™ can provide significant improvements in coating performance and overcome many of the coat quality and scale up problems experienced with traditional coating tubes ... Read more and download
Tablet Coating
SUPERCELL™ Tablet Coating Technology
Revolutionary tablet coater that accurately deposits controlled amounts of coating materials on tablets—even if they are extremely hygroscopic or friable ... Read more and download
An Accurate Method of Coating Tablets with Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Coating technology is used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry, e.g. for the application of non-functional or functional coats (aesthetic, protective or rate controlling polymer films) and for the deposition of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) onto nonpareils (multi-particulate dosage forms). In addition to efficient techniques for API layering of multiparticulate systems, an accurate method of coating objects 3 to 30 mm in length with APIs is also desired in the pharmaceutical industry as this is the size range of most single-unit solid dosage forms. These include tablets for oral administration and forms for other methods of delivery including human implantation ... Read more and download