When you think of medicines, tablets, come to mind and pharmaceutical manufacturers must have a tablet line, apart from one for capsules, syrups and injections. The state of pharmaceutical manufacturing in India is such that multi-national giants share the market space with small units. As such tablet machine manufacturers in India need to provide machines suited for large scale volume production and also smaller tablet machines to meet the needs of small scale units. Versatile pharma machine manufacturers offer a range of such tablet presses to suit small and large volume production processes.
The range includes single rotary tablet machine with 12 to 16 stations and tablet machines to manufacture large 40 mm diameter and 30 mm depth of fill tablets with a press capable of 12 tons pressure. Tablet machines need to be suitable for general and veterinary tablet manufacture and specialized machines must also conform to GMP specifications.
A typical standard tablet machine would have a friction plate fixed to the cam plate to reduce wear and make it easy to replace it when it is worn out. It would have a variable speed pully, CI graded casting pillars, gun metal feed frame, electroplated nuts, pressure gauges, oil lubrication system and oil grooves to collect excess oil. Specifically, the pressure rolls should be of alloy steel and the worm of phosphor bronze.
Modern industrial environments, especially pharma units, need clean room compatible equipments and equipments that also conform to OHSAS for added worker safety. Besides, energy consumption is another area and a tablet machine needs to be fast as well as be energy efficient. Noise levels should be low and this is achieved by totally enclosing the machine. Quality tablet machine manufacturers in India, by virtue of their experience and engineering skills, make sure that all these parameters are a part of their offering.
A pharma unit may need to manufacture tablets in different sizes and may wish to use the same machine for this purpose. In such cases, the dies should be easy to take out and replace in minimum time, dictated by the design of the machine.
A tablet section in a pharma unit may want a simple tablet machine, a heavy duty tablet machine, tablet compression machine, tablet punching machine, tablet printing machine and tablet coating system in addition to punches, presses and dies. Then they may have a development lab where a lab model tablet press may be required. You cannot expect them to source different tablet machines from different manufacturers. Well established and large scale tablet machine manufacturers in India can supply all or any of this equipment, tested for flawless performance and designed for rugged use for years with minimum maintenance. Souring from one manufacturer means you get a price advantage and the assurance of full support when required, along with spares. If they offer other equipments such as milling equipments and blenders, then that is one more reason to buy all pharma equipments from one trusted, reliable source.