LCI Extrusion and Spheronization

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Introduction
LCI Corporation, formerly known as Luwa, specializes in wet extrusion and spheronization technologies for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. They are the exclusive distributor of Fuji Paudal's extruders and spheronizers in the Americas, a leader in powder agglomeration technology.

Team and Services
The LCI team consists of experienced engineers who manage all aspects of the business, including initial assessment, product testing, scale-up, quotations, project management, commissioning, and post-sale support. They offer solutions from laboratory scale to full production systems.

Applications
LCI's technologies are used in various applications such as controlled release pellets, multi-particulate systems, sustained release polymer-coated pellets, enteric-coated pellets, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, catalysts, flavors, and nutraceuticals.

Products
LCI offers four types of low-pressure extruders and a variety of spheronizers under the trade name Marumerizer®. The selection of extruders depends on the desired final product characteristics.

Process Benefits

Excellent product flowability
Easy scale-up
High yield
Narrow particle size distribution
Excellent process repeatability

LCI's equipment is manufactured to meet general chemical industry standards and cGMP standards for pharmaceutical applications.

Development & Testing
LCI provides benchtop devices for researchers to evaluate extrusion and spheronization techniques. Their test center is equipped with laboratory and pilot-scale extruders, spheronizers, mixers, and feeders, allowing for comprehensive product and process evaluation.

Clients
LCI's clients include major companies such as Akzo Nobel, Amgen, BASF, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Catalent, and many others.

Contact Information
LCI Corporation is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and offers 24/7 parts service and a state-of-the-art test facility.

Catalog excerpts

Leading the way in Extrusion and Spheronization

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LCI Corporation is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. The campus houses sales and engineering oﬃces, a stateof-the-art test facility, and 24/7 parts service and warehouse. LCI Corporation, formerly Luwa, provides a wide variety of wet extrusion and spheronization technologies serving the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. LCI’s patented extruders and spheronizers are manufactured by Fuji Paudal of Osaka, Japan, a world leader in powder agglomeration technology. For the past 25 years, LCI has been Fuji Paudal’s exclusive distributor in the Americas. The LCI Extrusion/Spheronization team is composed...

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Extruders LCI oﬀers four types of low pressure extruders. Extruder selection depends mainly on desired ﬁnal product characteristics. 3 Extrusion / Spheronization Process Beneﬁts Excellent product ﬂowability Easy scale-up High yield Narrow particle size distribution Excellent process repeatability LCI Extruders and Spheronizers are manufactured to general chemical industry standards and cGMP standards for pharmaceutical applications. LCI oﬀers a variety of spheronizers, known by the trade name Marumerizer®. Single bowl, twin bowl, and cascade syst

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A Few of Our Clients… Akzo Nobel Amgen Apotex BASF Bayer Boehringer Ingelheim Catalent Colorcon Covidien Dupont DSM Pharmaceuticals Evonik FMC Corporation Gowan IFF Inica KV Pharmaceutical Lilly Merck & Co Monsanto Mylan Pharmaceuticals Paddock Laboratories Pﬁzer Stepan Syngenta Upsher-Smith Van Diest Development & Testing LCI oﬀers benchtop devices that allow formulation researchers and developers to evaluate various low pressure extrusion and spheronization techniques with their products. The LCI Test Center is fully staﬀed and equipped with laboratory and pilot scale extruders, spheronizers,...

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LCI Extrusion and Spheronization

LCI Extrusion and Spheronization

Catalog excerpts

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