Catalent Pharma Solutions, a global supplier of drug-delivery technology, has bought Isopak's Minicap 100 semiautomatic capsule filling machine to fulfil a special project for an overseas customer needing DB capsules.
The Minicap 100 and its sister machine, the Minicap 50, are used in hospitals, research and development laboratories, for clinical trials and small batch output. The Minicap 100 is capable of an output of 2,500 capsules per hour and is the first choice for many companies wanting a cost effective, well-made machine suitable for small runs.
The Minicap 100 is ideal for coping with the short, chunkier type of capsules involved in the trials the American owned company are carrying out at Catalent's Bolton site in Lancashire.
It has both an orientator and filler on a common base for ease of bench top mounting and movement. It can handle all the conventional sizes of capsules, both hard gelatine and HPMC, in sizes from 00 to 4, and also size 000 and DB capsules in special execution.
Semiautomatic operation makes the machines suitable for handling difficult powders and products which do not flow easily, such as in herbal, homeopathic, nutritional and natural product industries.
"More and more companies are looking for capsule filling solutions, specific to their application," said Isopak's managing director Robin Davies. "And the Minicap 100 is the only machine available that offers high versatility at a low price."
Isopak is the UK distributor for Italian equipment manufacturer Dott. Bonapace. The Dott Bonapace range includes tablet presses, blistering units, capsule processing and filling machines.