Tips On The Pill Press

By Lelia Hall


The need for desirable shapes of pharmaceutical materials, cosmetics and products used in cleaning has promoted innovation of various devices. Among these devices is the pill press. Most branded vitamin tablets have additives and supplements that you just do not require. This press helps you in mixing the supplements and also the vitamins you require for one is specific diet and custom them into convenient pills.

Understanding the features of a powder used in the tablet press is important in knowing how it functions. The powder used in this process can be processed through three ways. One of them is direct blending. Under this method the powder is just blended and the tablets are then made from the blended powder. This method produces very few tablets however.

The other method is the wet granulating. Under this method, a liquid is mixed with the powder. The mixing of these two is meant to aid formation of bonds between the particles. After bond formation the liquid which is in excess is filtered from the mixture using a drying process. This procedure is used when need for a large number of pills arises.

Dry granulating is also another method of processing the fine particles. Under this method, the powder is compacted and then it is ground back. Compression of this powder makes it to be denser. This boosts how it flows as well as increasing consistency of flow. This method is usually used for products that are not only too light but also fine to compress directly. Also it is used for materials that are sensitive to the process of wet granulation.

The flow of powder into the device also affects how the tablets are obtained and also the uniformity of the products after the process. How consistent the flow of a powder into the device is affects the end product of the tablet production process. The powder should be able to flow in not only the best uniform way possible but also consistently.

The basis of coming up with a pill on a press tablet depends on filling of your flask. This shows how important the flow is during the process. It calls for an excellent flow as well as for uniformity in density of the product. Variation in the volume as well as density will lead to variations in both weight and shape of pills produced.

Various powders have different characteristics. Some are large, others brittle soft and even wet. Making a tablet is more like making a snow ball. Both the shape, amount of water vapor and size contribute towards the quality of a tablet. Particles in the powder have to be similar to those other particles to ensure uniformity in the compression of the particles.

Both the density and uniformity of such tablets is a crucial issue that should be emphasized by the industries during the designing of a press. This ensures a uniform end product is created. Quality is thus boosted in this process as there will be a standard final output with desirable shape and size.




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