New from Romaco is a fully automatic line for the production and packaging of pharmaceutical strip tablets.
The company says its StripTabs system can handle all operations from the manufacturing and processing of medication, through packaging using heat-seal processes, to handling individual stages in secondary packaging. The end product is packaged using a heat-seal procedure, with a maximum output of 1,000 packs/min.
In addition, the company’s partner laboratories can offer recipes for strip tablets for relevant pharmaceuticals.
The mixing of dry and liquid ingredients to form a homogeneous, dense solution is carried out through Romaco FrymaKoruma. The admixture of active pharmaceutical ingredients into the matrix of the StripTabs is said to allow extremely accurate dosing of the active ingredients. Continuous circulation, recirculation and heating of the liquid keep the viscosity and concentration of the mixture constant for subsequent processing.
In the next step, the pharmaceutical solution is passed to the Optimags coating plant. With a thickness tolerance of one micron, the liquid is applied to a carrier foil, then runs through several drying units and is rolled up for subsequent processing.
Because the elasticity of the rolled material has a limited life, individual machines in the line are tailored to each other as accurately as possible, to suit the properties and quantities of the material being processed and the production times concerned.
For cutting and packaging the medication, the roll material is unwound by the Romaco Siebler HM 2/500 heat-seal machine and perforated in small rectangles (20 x 30 mm) in the integrated precision grooving station. Then the StripTabs are separated from the carrier foil in a delamination procedure and placed on the primary packaging foil by means of a shuttle system.
The product lines involved in the individual applications are fed to the multi-track heat-seal process and sealed air-tight in soft aluminium foil packages. Peelable foil packaging with opening aids additionally allows the StripTabs to be removed from the packaging by tongue.
