Dosage Forms

Ad Gerich is managing director, InProcess-LSP, The Netherlands

Michiel Damen is application specialist, InProcess-LSP, The Netherlands.

Willy Verhoeven is senior scientist, Polymeric Dosage Forms, MSD Oss, The Netherlands.

Sai Prasanth Chamarthy is associate director, Respiratory Product Development, Merck & Co, Rahway, NJ USA.

Rut Besseling is director, Science and Technology, InProcess-LSP, The Netherlands.

Articles

This study shows that the presence of API lumps can be detected by inline NIR, and elaborates on why NIR sensor dimensions and actual measured sample volume by the NIR sensor are important variables for adequate interpretation of obtained results.

Detection of Lumps in Powder Blends by Inline NIR

Carolina Diaz Quijano, PhD, is manager of Innovation and Technical Marketing Nutra/Pharma at Omya International AG, Baslerstrasse 42, 4665 Oftringen, Switzerland, info.pharma@omya.com.

Functionalized calcium carbonate provides high porosity, which enables fast disintegration, and excellent compactibility that results in harder tablets at low compression forces. 

A Multifunctional Mineral Excipient

Agnes Shanley is senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology.

Eric Jayjock, Patheon’s director of continuous manufacturing, discusses the CDMO’s plans for its new continuous manufacturing business. 

Building a Continuous Processing Culture

Recro Gainsville expands its tableting capacity with the addition of a tablet press and film coater.

Recro Gainesville Adds Manufacturing Capacity

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Oral solid-dosage and parenteral drug manufacturing equipment and systems have made great strides in safety and efficiency. 

Forty Years of Drug Product Manufacturing Advances

Anil Kane, executive director, Global Head of Technical & Scientific Affairs at Patheon, shared his perspective of changes to solid-dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing. 

Evolution of Dosage-Form Development and Manufacturing Strategies

Tablet coating from DISONA can handle batch sizes up to 3 kg.

Coating Module Supports Easy Module Exchange

Elizabeth Shen, PhD, is technical marketing manager at Colorcon, Inc.

Materials and equipment innovations have advanced tablet coating from sugar to copolymers and simplified pharma production.

Coatings Sweeten Pharma Tablet Production

Pharma’s test of continuous manufacturing is starting with oral solid-dosage forms.

21st-Century OSDs: Times, They Are a Changin’

Takeda inaugurated expanded capacity of solid-dosage drugs at its site in Oranienburg, Germany.

Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage