ConsiGma®
ConsiGma® Film Coater
The ConsiGma® Film Coater is based on the GEA high-performance tablet coating technology that gently and accurately deposits controlled amounts of coating materials onto tablet cores — even if they are hygroscopic or friable.
Highly agile and available in 4 standard set-ups, the ConsiGma® FC can coat any amount of tablets between 1.5 kg and 500 kg within a 8 hour shift (up to 1000 kg for a twin-coater system). Nominal throughputs (from 15 kg/h up to 60 kg/h, to be verified by testing) are flexible due to the interchangeable coating wheels, and the systems can be customized with a number of options to suit the customer’s needs.
They are suitable for applying aesthetic, enteric or API coating in a very accurate way and are ideal for pharmaceutical companies who wish to benefit from a higher process control and resulting higher quality of the product.
The Conductor software ensures seamless control of the entire process, full reporting and tracking of OOS. Material genealogy can be integrated into the controls. Handshaking with up- or downstream equipment can also be offered.
Standard Configuration
1 or 2 coater wheels
2 sizes of wheel available
Available options
- Feeding from:
- Specially designed tablet feeder
- Fully integrated ConsiGma® CT line
- Standalone tablet press
- Fully integrated with new GEA press
- Handshake with existing or customer selected press
- IBC
- Manual
- Solvent capable
- Wash offline
- PAT Probe
- Tablet Waxing unit
- 80 mm coater wheel for small scale R&D available on special demand
- 480 mm coater wheel for high volume production in development
Main benefits
- Ideal conditions for excellent coating quality
- Unique coating concept reducing the risk for common defects
- No risk to lose an entire batch of tablets
- Less coating solution required for effective functional coatings (up to 50% reduction)
- Small footprint relative to the throughput
- No Scale up: same system for R&D, clinical and full scale commercial production
- Can be integrated with various tablet presses for both batch and continuous modes
Read more about how GEA and its partners are implementing this technology to lead the way toward smaller, more flexible, continuous processing technologies that are transforming the future of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
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