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This article presents considerations for preventing hazards associated with dust in pharmaceutical production, particularly as relates to the  United Kingdom's Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations.

How to Achieve Pharmaceutical Dust Control

Regis Cazes is strategic marketing director at Medelpharm, France, a company creating the STYL’One family of tableting instruments and providing contract lab services in powder characterization and tableting; rcazes@medelpharm.com.

Tableting instruments (i.e., compaction simulators) that simulate high-speed presses can be used in a quality-by-design (QbD) approach to perform in-depth material characterization and direct scale-up.

A QbD Approach to Shorten Tablet Development Time

The company has made an equipment donation to Purdue University's continuous manufacturing research program.

Natoli Engineering Donates to University Research Program

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Closures that protect solid-dosage drugs and the capping equipment that applies them have new product-protecting features.

Boosting Functionality of Container Closures

PTI moved to a new facility in Belgium that will house its headquarters and a R&D center for tablet dedusting, capsule polishing, and testing technology. 

Pharma Technology Inc. Moves to Larger Facility

Fette Compacting and Glatt have joined forces to develop integrated solutions for the continuous manufacturing of oral solid-dosage drug forms.

Fette Compacting and Glatt Partner to Develop Continuous Manufacturing Solutions

A pneumatic cover lift for the Witte fluid bed dryer raises the cover for cleaning and inspection. 

Pneumatic Lift Raises Fluid Bed Dryer Cover

Alfa Laval rotary jet heads can be installed in small tank openings to replace static spray ball or rotary spray heads. 

Tank Cleaners Can be Retrofitted With Rotary Jet Heads

Rita Peters is the former editorial director of 

Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology Europe

Industry experts were honored for business, scientific, and social contributions.

Awards Recognize Industry Contributions

Coperion K-Tron has added the K3-PH-ML-D4-QT35 design to the company’s K3-PH line of feeders for a variety of continuous processes, and will showcase the feeder at the 2017 ISPE Annual Meeting and Expo.

Manufacturing Equipment, Solid Dose Drugs