Pharma Solids Center
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The GEA Pharma Solids Center improving your products, optimizing your processes, making science work engineering for a better world

2 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER COMMITTED TO OUR CUSTOMERS With our unparalleled history of expertise in processing OSDs, from pills and pellets to MUPS, and our tried and tested technologies, our focus is on price-performance leadership, safety and quality. How do we do this? By making science wor

gea pharma solids center The GEA Pharma Solids Center (GPSC) represents our continued commitment to and our ongoing support for the current and future pharmaceutical industry. With a total footprint of 1100 m2, including 200 m2 of technical space, the GPSC epitomizes the state-of-the-art in oral solid dosage (OSD) form testing, development and optimization, and offers a full range of batch and continuous manufacturing technologies. From process enhancement to real-life simulations and test and loan machines, we provide a unique range of services that are designed to improve production and...

4 • gea pharma solids center A well-established expert in the pharmaceutical processing and manufacturing industry with a long history of experience, GEA has developed a deep and thorough understanding of the challenges you face, the hurdles you need to overcome and the goals you want to achieve. At the GPSC, we combine advanced in-house technology with a thorough understanding of the processing industries to help customers maximize their development results, gain more know-how and discover additional opportunities for their applications. The GPSC supports the development of new...

WE BELIEVE OUR SERVICES GREATLY BENEFIT ANYONE INVOLVED IN PHARMACEUTICAL R&D, EQUIPMENT SELECTION, PROCESS OPTIMIZATION AND PRODUCT DEVELOPME

6 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER Batch Processing Capabilities From powder to coated tablet and from R&D to full-scale manufacturing, no other supplier offers such a comprehensive range of batch-based technologies for oral solid dosage form production Whatever your application, no matter how challenging, GEA’s powder handling, granulating, pelletizing, drying, compression and coating solutions will meet and exceed your individual requirements. The GPSC enables you to investigate all the batch-based solid dosage production techniques offered by GEA, at laboratory, pilot or production scale. Our...

INCREASING KNOWLEDGE Our permanent staff of experienced engineers, technicians, and industrial pharmacists can assist with any production problems, new developments and the modification of GEA technology to meet specific need

8 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER WHATEVER YOUR APPLICATION Whether it’s high shear granulation or inhalation blending, extrusion and spheronization or IBC blending, safety, containment, product flow and building requirements are in-built for full integration and optimum process efficie

Batch Processing Capabilities The quest for continuous innovation is the force that drives us every day, and flexibility, performance, accuracy and control are the criteria that focus our thinking. Everything we do is aimed at improving these key factors to help you to make better products and improve productivity. Below you can find of examples of the innovative solutions that can be tested in the GPSC: Integrated Small-Scale Granulation and Drying: At the heart of GEA’s small-scale and R&D portfolio is PharmaConnect®, which allows a number of diverse process modules to be docked to a...

10 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER Continuous Processing: ConsiGma® At GEA, we believe that continuous processing improves the quality of pharmaceutical end products by focusing on quality during the whole product lifecycle — not just “tested in” quality — and by understanding the capability of your processes, managing sources of variability and decreasing any associated risks. The ConsiGma® concept enables small amounts of product to be processed and developed quickly and efficiently. And, once a formulation has been optimized, it can be reliably reproduced in pilot, clinical or production...

FLEXIBLE, SAFE AND COST-EFFECTIVE ConsiGma® provides maximum output in an energy efficient way, has been tested using a wide variety of formulations and is already being used by several large pharmaceutical companies, and both ethical and generic research and manufacturing centers worldw

12 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER GEA combines advanced in-house technology with a thorough understanding of the process industries to help customers maximize their development results, gain more know-how and discover additional opportunities for their applicatio

Continuous Direct Compression Available in the GPSC for product trials, the ConsiGma® High Performance Tablet Coating Technology: CDC is a complete tablet production facility with The ConsiGma® coater is a revolutionary, high embedded quality control in one machine, integrating performance tablet coating technology that accurately four key GEA technologies — accurate loss-in-weight deposits controlled amounts of coating materials on feeding, continuous blending, GEA compression tablets. Designed specifically to be an integral part of the technology and the online measurement of CQAs...

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GEA and its partners are leading the way toward smaller, more flexible, continuous processing technologies that have the potential to transform the future of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing — and deliver customized quantities of drugs to patients in need in a quick and efficient

16 · GEA PHARMA SOLIDS CENTER Making Science Work At our technology centers, interested parties can test any unit With a long history of solid dosage form expertise, including operation, from lab- to pilot-scale, or perform comparative hundreds of formulations, everyone at the GPSC is committed to process studies with our skilled operators by testing complete going the extra mile to meet customer expectations. Wherever process trains you are in the world, whatever your application, we’ll take you further, faster. In addition, our permanent staff of experienced engineers, technicians and...