Granulation

Quality, purity, reliability. Introducing our comprehensive product portfolio. Sterile liquid applications demand excipients with the highest standards of quality, purity and reliability. To supply everything you need for your medicinal drug product, Merck meets these standards at every stage of…
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MEGGLE is a pioneer in co-processing technologies that allow simple, robust formulation development and manufacture. Through co-processing, MEGGLE developed highly functional excipients possessing unique qualities for directly compressible immediate and sustained release pharmaceutical solid dosage…
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A week ago I wrote about the importance of new and novel excipients for the pharmaceutical industry and presented Klucel™ xtend and BioSustane™ in last week´s edition of "The Excipients Week". In the meantime I launched a small poll with the title "Was there innovation in excipients over the last…
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Continuous powder blending is an essential operation during continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. However, the complex granular dynamics in the blender is still poorly understood. This study employs a graphic processor unit (GPU) enhanced discrete element method (DEM) to analyse the granular…
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Many orally administrated drugs exhibit poor bioavailability due to their limited solubility. The smartFilm technology is an innovative approach to improve the drug aqueous solubility, where the drug is embedded within the matrix of cellulose-based paper in an amorphous state, hence increasing its…
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In the current study, the concept of multiparticulate drug delivery systems (MDDS) was applied to tablets intended for the amorphisation of supersaturated granular ASDs in situ, i.e. amorphisation by microwave irradiation within the final dosage form. The MDDS concept was hypothesised to ensure…
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FlowLac by MEGGLE is directly compressible lactose having a spherical agglomerate shape, consisting of small alpha-lactose monohydrate crystals bound by amorphous lactose. It  is produced by spray-drying a suspension of fine milled alpha-lactose monohydrate crystals in a solution of lactose. When…
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Glucose is widely used in both the food and pharmaceutical industry. However, the application of industrially crystallized glucose in solid dosage forms is challenged by its poor flowability and tabletability. To improve these characteristics continuous twin-screw granulation was tested, which has…
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RetaLac® by MEGGLE is a co-processed excipient comprising of equal parts of milled alpha-lactose monohydrate and hypromellose (USP substitution type 2208) with a nominal viscosity of 4000 cps. A specialized spray-agglomeration process generates textured, highly structured particles with d50 in…
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Excipients for direct tabletting and  granulation Product Description Lactose Overview Lactose is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose obtained from the whey fraction of bovine milk. Depending on the temperatures used to crystallize and dry the lactose solution, it may be produced in…
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