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 provide equipment for 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™ (patent pending), is a new Multi-Purpose Processor from Aeromatic-Fielder™ that uses proven fluid bed technology to achieve fluid bed granulation, drying and pellet coating (or tablet coating) in ONE processor. Our new fluid bed system offers multiple processing from a single bowl providing both flexibility and cost benefits.
Coating Processes for Particles, Powders, Granules, Crystals Pellets and Small Tablets:
Bottom spray fluid bed coating
The PRECISION-COATER™ offers precise particle coating from 50-5000µ. The coating liquid is sprayed up into a fluidized bed. Advanced fluid dynamics controls the flow, and achieves a high degree of coating uniformity.
- Capacity: 50g to several 100 kg/batch
Top-spray fluid bed coating
Cost-effective pellet coating
In the TOP SPRAY COATER™, particles to be coated are suspended in the fluidized bed and a coating liquid is sprayed from above.
- Capacity: 50g to some tons per batch
Spray congealing / cooling
Spray congealing carried out in spray coolers is ideal for the cooling of dispersions of drugs in a melted carrier. The hot melt is sprayed into cold process gas where it solidifies into coarse, solid and spherical particles.
Coating Process for Tablets:
Tablet Coater SuperCell™
SUPERCELL™ Coating Technology (SCT) from GEA Pharma Systems
A new coating process for tablets or other objects. The patent protected system offers the following unique capabilities:
- Self contained “Plug and Play concept”
- Semi continuous operation
- Typical batch size between 20 and 120 gram
- Typical cycle time around one minute
- Capacity up to 40.000 tablets per hour
- Capacity can be increased by adding further units
Based on the unique process capabilities of the system it can be used in the following application:
- The coating of objects with strange shapes
- The coating of thermo or liquid sensitive materials
- Coating with a very high deposition accuracy
- Application of unusual coating materials
- Coating of mechanically weak objects
- Improved performance for taste masking applications