MonoSol Rx buys oral strip unit
Doyen Medipharm, a specialist machine supplier to the medical and pharmaceutical industries, is supplying MonoSol Rx with a new manufacturing system to convert and package fast-dissolve pharmaceutical oral strips into unit-dose pouches.
The high-speed system will use Doyen's industry-proven HDW high-speed four side seal packaging machine continuous motion platen technology. The oral strip product will be converted from master bulk reels and processed through a series of slitters and rotary die cutters, transferring and spacing the product onto the HDW poucher infeed system.
It will include optional units for product identification printing, vision system inspection systems, date/lot code printing systems and downstream cartoner integration for a fully integrated, turnkey system.
The machine will be supplied with full validation documentation based upon the company's proven system defect policy, which ensures that any single fault within the machine will be automatically detected. This system defect - or 'double redundancy' - is said to ensure absolute reliability of the quality of the product emerging from the machine.
MonoSol Rx, headquartered in Portage, Indiana, employs film as a fast-dissolve oral drug delivery platform. The company's FDTAB film oral dosage form looks like a postage stamp and dissolves readily on the tongue. P. Scott Bening, president and ceo, MonoSol Rx, said: 'the acquisition of the Doyen equipment is intended to augment our existing packaging relationships. This move complements our facilities expansion, which is underway to increase our film coating capacity.'