Dosage Forms

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Suheung’s new facility in Vietnam is dedicated to vegetarian capsule manufacturing.

Suheung Opens Capsule Factory

An agreement with Sanofi gives Catalent access to commercial spray drying facility in Haverhill, UK.

Catalent Extends Spray Drying Capabilities in Europe

StarTab from Colorcon was designed to ensure functionality and stability for direct compression tableting.

Starch-Based Excipient for Direct Compression

Expansion at the Eberbach, Germany facility includes two Vegicap encapsulation lines, printing, inspection, and packaging capabilities.

Catalent Invests $14 Million at Softgel Facility in Germany

Kelly Boyer is general manager, Film Coatings at Colorcon Inc.

Market demand and regulatory guidance continues to promote improved medication design.


Gilding the Pill

Cynthia A. Challener is a contributing editor to Pharmaceutical Technology.

Understanding the API, delivery mechanism, and excipient functionality is essential to solving drug solubility challenges.


Strategic Screening for Solubility Solutions

Michael Avraam is global product manager at ChargePoint Technology for the PharmaSafe range of products.

Containment valves and smart monitoring can keep employees safe and improve manufacturing efficiency when handling potent APIs, intermediates, and solid-dosage drugs.

Assuring the Safe Handling of Potent APIs, Intermediates, and Solid-Dosage Drugs

Johannes G. Khinast is professor at the Institute of Process and Particle Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Stephan Sacher is senior scientist at the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH in Graz, Austria.

Elen Gartshein is senior manager at Pfizer Global Supply, Peapack, NJ, USA.

Matthias Wolfgang is scientist at the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH in Graz, Austria.

Patrick Wahl is senior scientist at the Research Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering GmbH, Graz, Austria.

Optical coherence tomography can improve quality control and development of coated dosage forms by allowing film thickness to be measured in real time.

Real-Time Measurement of Coating Film Thickness

Pramote Cholayudth previously was the managing director of the Professional Conference Center, Ltd. He currently is a validation consultant to Biolab Co., Ltd., in Thailand. He is the founder and manager of PM consult, cpramote2000@yahoo.com.

This paper describes how the concept of acceptance value can be redefined to remove bias and more closely reflect quality targets.

Uniformity of Dosage Units, Part 1: Acceptance Value

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Innovative technologies, such as drug-loaded devices and 3D printing, enable advances in implantable devices and other novel dosage forms.

Solid/Semi-Solid Dosage