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IMA ACTIVE FOR CAPSULE FILLING
Now more than ever success is based on the ability to understand how customer requirements are evolving and to adapt. As a world leader in the capsule filling market since 1959, IMA is continuing to innovate and add to its range of products and services to offer the best tailored answer to today’s market challenges:
- all filling systems and all control technologies from statistical up to 100%
- low protection up to full containment
- scale-up possibility from 6,000 to 200,000 capsules/hour
- all peripheral equipment: feeding, weighing, banding, etc.
- laboratory for testing and product development
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| Revitalization of product pipelines: multi product encapsulation and new delivery technologies. |
| The combination of active ingredients, control of drug release, new drug delivery technologies: these are some of the most common strategies developed by pharmaceutical companies to extend products life-cycle. The encapsulation of multi particulate dosages and the combination of different products in the same capsule are a growing trend… |
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| Quality-by-design: in-process controls and production automation |
| Improve production efficiency through automation: both market drivers and FDA regulatory guidance push in the same direction. Gross or net weight, in or off-line, direct or indirect… Checking of product dosage is still the most requested of the Process Analytical Technologies. |
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| Contained capsule filling of Highly Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients |
| Sales for high potency pharmaceutical ingredients are expected to grow between 12% and 15% to 2012. IMA Active has been supplying equipment for solid dose processing of Highly Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients since 1996 and with over 60 installations worldwide has gained an expertise unrivalled in the marketplace. |
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| Improving bio-availability of poorly soluble drugs: capsule filling (& sealing) of lipid based formulations |
| The encapsulation of lipid based formulations is still a niche in the pharmaceutical field, but with an interesting growing trend, because of its capability to improve drug bio-availability, easier containment of high potency active ingredients, etc. IMA Active offers a wide range of machines for liquid filling in capsules, as well as the Hermetica banding machine… |
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| Validation of statistical net weight checking system |
| The internal report describes the methodology and results of the tests coordinated by the IMA Active Laboratory, to demonstrate the precision and accuracy of the statistical net weight checking system applied on an Imatic 150 continuous motion capsule filling machine. |
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| ABOUT US |
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| IMA Active Division offers a complete range of machines and services for the production of solid dose products. |
| IMA Active is the ideal partner for each solid dose processing phase: Granulation, Tableting, Capsule Filling, Coating, Handling and Washing. The IMA Active solutions take advantage of the know-how of experts specialised in individual product lines, but also capable of working as part of a team... |
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| CONTENTS Issue No. 01-2009 |
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EDITORIAL |
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WHY AN ENTIRE NEWSLETTER DEDICATED SOLELY TO CAPSULE FILLING? |
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Because the innovations carried out by IMA in this field during the last 2 to 3 years are many. Some of them are the result of cooperation with customers on specific orders, while others are long term projects planned on the basis of an accurate analysis of market trends and IMA positioning.
When we look back and consider these innovations as a whole, we realize that they form a unique plan, to make IMA even more capable of meeting the ever evolving requirements in the sector of capsule filling and sealing machines, with the reliability and expertise that have forever been the hallmark of IMA.
What if a newsletter is not enough to share all of this?
Then contact us: together with our products we will be happy to offer you our know-how, our specialist consultancy tailored to your individual requirements.
Fabriano Ferrini and Pietro Pirera
Product Managers for capsule filling and sealing
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IMA Active on Show |
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PROPACK AFRICA
Johannesburg, South Africa
October 20-23
AAPS
Los Angeles, CA, USA
November 8-12
PHARMTECH
Moscow, Russia
November 24-27
P-MEC
Mumbai, India
December 1-3 |
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