Applications of Pharmaceutical Machinery
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In manufacturing pharmaceutical product various type of machineries are required at each processing stage from production to packaging. Following are the summary of various pharmaceutical machines application.
- Tablet Coating Machine is used for sugar and film coating of tablets, pallets, granules etc.
- Fully Automatic Tablet Counting & Filling Machine is suitable for counting and filling hard gelatin capsules, soft gels, coated tablets, tablets, bean or ball shaped objects, round pills and other solid material.
- Roll Compactor is designed for the densification by compacting powder for the Pharmaceutical and Bulk Drug Industries in particular, Food & Chemical industries in general.
- Comminuting mill is used for wet and dry granulation, pulverization or dispersion of product or ingredients in pharmaceutical, chemical, bulk drug, food & other industries.
- Multi mill is a self contained portable unit useful for high speed Granulating, Pulverizing, Mixing, Shredding and Chopping of a wide range of wet and dry materials
- The fluid Bed Dryer are most suitable for drying granular crystalline, coarse or similar material in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, dyes, food and allied products.
- Tray dryer is used for drying of pigments, food, bakery, electrodes, chemical and plastic powders
- Vibro Sifter is used in various industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, dyestuff and pigments, ceramics, food products, detergents, cosmetics, pesticides, and fertilizers, paper pulp, plastics, resins, paints, polyester chips, minerals, rubber compounds, slurries, metal, powders
- The Octagonal Blender is an efficient and versatile blending machine for mixing and lubrication process of dry granules equally. It can be used for pharmaceutical, food, chemical and cosmetic products etc.
- Mass mixers are special pharmaceutical machinery used for through mixing of wet as well as dry or lump material, especially suited for tablet granulation.
- V-Type Blenders is most suitable for paints, dye-stuffs and pharmaceutical.
- Double Cone Blender is an efficient and versatile machine for mixing dry powder and granulates uniformly.
- Double Sided Tabletting Press Machine is used to produce round, double-sided engraved or irregular tablets in a wide variety of shapes.
- Tablet Press Machines can produce all types of round tablets, irregular tablets and tablets of engraved on double sides.
- Punches and dies used for continuous production, longer life of machine parts hence less spares consumption.
- Dust Extraction unit is used to control the flying dust generated during high-speed compression of tablets.
- Capsule fillers are used to fill hard gelatin and non gelatin capsules with pre determined quantity of liquids, powders, pellets, tablets.
- Capsule Inspection Machines ensure fast and accurate checking and sorting of all defects in different types of tablets.
- Capsule Counting and Packing Machine is most suitable for counting and packaging of capsules or tablets respectively.
- Powder filling machines are used in Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, Chemical, and Food & beverage industries. Powder Filling Machines are suitable for sterile, injectable, dry syrup powder filling.
- Ampoule filling machines is used to fill ampoules as well as vials.
- Liquid Filling Machines are specialized machines used to fill bottles, vials, ampoules and other containers with pre determined quantity of liquids.
- Volumetric Liquid Filling Machines are best suited for filling liquids with low to medium viscosity.
- Vacuum Liquid Filling Machines are best suited for filling liquids that are foamy and caustic in nature.
- Semi Automatic Volumetric Liquid Filling Machine can be used for different types of glass, Plastic, Metal containers.
- Vial Filling Machines are used to fill vials and bottles with liquids, viscous material and suspensions and powders.
- Labeling Machines are suitable for Labeling on Round Vials, Bottles and other round objects.
- High speed fully automatic Self Adhesive Sticker Labeling system with integrated security system for labelling vials, ampoules and syringes.
- Automatic Wet Glue Bottle Labeling Machine is useful for PVC, PET, Glass Bottles for Liquor / Pharmaceuticals / Beverages / Household Products / Oil Edible & Lube / Chemical Industries.
- Automatic Carton Code Printing Machines can print on plain, Laminated and Varnish Carton as well as on Polythene Bags.
- Label Printing Machine is used to print primary, secondary, top, bottom, wraparound or multi-panel variable product identification labeling.
- Rotary Bottle Washing Machine is used for washing injection bottles, infusion bottles, ampoules, cartridges and syringes.
- ROPP CAP Sealing machine are suitable to apply ROPP cap on round as well as flat, rectangular shaped bottles.
- Ointment Manufacturing Plants are ideal for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries for the production of ointment, creams, tooth paste, lotions and other emulsions and homoginizations.
- Planetary Mixer is useful for thorough mixing of ointments, creams, lotions, toothpastes etc. in sterile or non-sterile conditions.
- Fluid Bed Dryer are most suitable for drying granular crystalline, coarse or similar material in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, dyes, food and allied products.
- Vacuum Tray Dryer is used mainly for drying of high grade, temperature and oxygen sensitive products.
- Dry Heat Sterilizer has the advantage that it can be used on powders and other heat-stable items that are adversely affected by steam.
- ETO sterilizers are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry and health care institutions to sterilize products sensitive to moisture or heat.
- Sterilizing tunnel is a tunnel like region, responsible for dry heat sterilization and depyrogenation of containers, vials, bottles, ampoules etc.
- Cleaning in Place or CIP systems are widely used in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry to clean and decontaminate tanks, reactors, decanting pumps, and transfer lines etc.
- Sifter is suitable for separation of foreign objects from dry powder before mixing.
- Vibro sifters are used to separate mass composition of solids, liquid from solid and for gradation of materials as per particle sizes.
- Blister Packaging Machines are used for the packing tablets, capsules, pills and other similar products packing.
- Conveyor belt is used to transport or convey particles, raw materials or finished products from one place to another.
- Box strapping machines are widely used to package all kinds and sizes of boxes including corrugated boxes and PP boxes.
- Carton sealing machines packaging machinery are used for sealing of cartons, boxes of various sizes and shapes.
- Shrink wrap machines make use of plastic to effectively seal a container or product by tightly surrounding it.
- Cartoning Systems are suitable for online cartoning of blisters, bottles, vials, vial and ampoule, bottle and dropper, tubes, etc.
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5/13/2011 12:06 AM |
Application of Medical Instruments
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There are several basic types:
Diagnostic equipment includes medical imaging machines, used to aid in diagnosis. Examples are ultrasound and MRI machines, PET and CT scanners, and x-ray machines.
Therapeutic equipment includes infusion pumps, medical lasers and LASIK surgical machines.
Life support equipment is used to maintain a patient's bodily function. This includes medical ventilators, anaesthetic machines, heart-lung machines, ECMO, and dialysis machines.
Medical monitors allow medical staff to measure a patient's medical state. Monitors may measure patient vital signs and other parameters including ECG, EEG, blood pressure, and dissolved gasesin the blood.
Medical laboratory equipment automates or helps analyze blood, urine and genes.
Diagnostic Medical Equipment may also be used in the home for certain purposes, e.g. for the control of diabetes mellitus
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5/13/2011 2:56 AM |
The Global Market of Pharmaceutical Machineries
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The pharmaceutical machinery industry is a highly competitive industry. With growing demand of various pharma products and medicines, the demand for pharmaceutical machineries is also increasing. While the leading countries are in USA and Europe, the South East Asian countries like India, China, Turkey and Korea are also making a rapid growth in this sector. With the use of advanced technology, high quality pharmaceutical machineries are being produced which are used for manufacturing of Capsules, Tablets, Cosmetics, Ointments, Liquid for Pharmaceutical Industry in the pharma industry...
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4/18/2011 6:21 AM |
The Indian Market of Pharmaceutical Machineries
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In India there are around 17,000 pharmaceutical companies in the country and therefore it provides tremendous scope for the machinery manufacturers to exploit the potential by providing necessary machinery by ensuring proper design, ease of user application, simple maintenance and also validation protocol for the new equipment that are essential for the pharmaceutical companies.
The Indian pharmaceutical machinery industry is currently catering to the segments of tableting, capsulation, powder processing, material handling, R&D equipment and instrumentation, coating, bulk drug plant installation etc.
In India, there are around 800 pharmaceutical machine manufacturing and allied utility service units in the small and medium sector. Though only few companies have made a mark in the area of branded market, a majority of these units undertake job works and supply of custom made machineries taking the location advantage of buyers.
India is the fourth largest manufacturer of medicines in the world, although in terms of turnover the contribution of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is less than 2% of the global total, it is a clear indication that the prices of medicines in India are the lowest in the world. The manufacturing facilities in India are being upgraded to the standards of the regulated markets. Today, India has the highest number of FDA approved facilities outside USA.
Packaging technologies which show substantial potential for growth are horizontal and vertical form-fill-seal machines for different goods, be it solids, granules or liquids. Blister packing and Cartoning machines, form-fill-seal machines for flat-top-and -bottom models, bag-in-box systems, sterilization and filling technologies for vials and ampoules, as well as filling and sealing of metal containers are also technologies with rising local demand.
There are more than 350 facilities in India's pharmaceutical-machine manufacturing industry, in categories like instrumentation and process control, lab equipment, pharma research and development (R&D) tools and techniques, pharmaceutical machinery, packaging material and machines, plant design and engineering, pharmaceutical process technology, and software.
India's pharmaceutical industry has approximately 3000 active pharmaceutical ingredient-manufacturing facilities, nearly 5000 formulation facilities, and 2000 other pharmaceutical facilities. Out of these, 300 facilities are in the medium to large range. Some subsectors, including biotechnology, bioinformatics, contract research and manufacturing services, clinical research organizations, and pharmaceutical machinery manufacturing, are growing in tandem with the larger pharmaceutical industry, as experienced human resources and investments spill over into these areas as well.
If you have a product which is replicable, scalable, and does not require after-sale support or customization, then you cannot compete with the Chinese. But if you are talking about pharma machines, then it is just common knowledge that you need the necessary customization or after-sales support and documentation for operating and maintenance. This is where Indian pharma machine manufacturers have the advantage of fluency in English and greater technology-orientated skills.
An increasing number of foreign pharmaceutical-machine manufacturers also have recognized India's achievements and evolution in the industry. Indian machines are manufactured and used in accordance with international standards and do not hazard the inspection and approval of their facility. This is one of the many reasons that India has the most FDA-approved facilities in the world. |
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5/13/2011 12:10 AM |