Virtually, all solid dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry have been manufactured in ‘batch’ despite cost and processing disadvantages associated with manufacturing a product in batch mode. Market forces coupled with a conducive…

Medicines of drug coated inert pellets filled into hard capsules or compressed into tablets are already on the market, until now, their number is limited and there are few systematic investigations of possible coating amounts. Pellets of…

Most of the recent drug compounds coming out of the drug discovery pipeline are labile (multiple polymorphs), and need to be developed into robust marketed oral drug formulations. There are only 22 oral macroamorphous drug products approved…

"Common defects in tablet film coating can be minimized by effective design of the tablet core and the coating process." Stuart C. Porter in Pharmaceutical Technology Film coatings on pharmaceutical tablets provide a broad range of…

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26. May 2018 Hot-melt coating is a novel and cost-effective solvent-free coating technique. Commonly used excipients for hot-melt coating are lipid substances. In…

The overall objective of this work is to understand how excipient characteristics influence the drug product quality attributes and process performance of a continuous twin screw wet granulation process. The knowledge gained in this study…

13. March 2018 Purpose Mannitol/sucrose formulations are employed to generate lyophilizates for biopharmaceuticals with an elegant cake appearance. The aim of this study…

10. March 2018 This article also includes a good overview of mucoadhesive tablets developed from 2012-2016 and also a compilation of the most used polymers…