Tableting and tube packaging solutions for fragile products

Hygroscopic products are challenging to compress, difficult to store and the fragile effervescent tablets need to be carefully handled not only during feeding, but also throughout the whole manufacturing and packaging process. They’re easily affected by mechanical stress, light, air and moisture

Your challenges

  • Tablet hardness and/or formulation

  • Handling of effervescent tablets

  • Different tube/tablet sizes

  • Filling rate

  • Sustainable production


Our solution

  • Efficient filling systems
  • 3 sets of pressure rollers

  • Gentle and safe transport to the tube filler
  • Dedusting of tablets
  • Tablet separation to avoid breakage

  • Gentle filling of effervescent tablets
  • Unique rotation principle to enable gentle filling of fragile effervescent products
  • Fast rotating filling cartridges to provide controlled rotation and gentle stacking of the tablets inside the tubes
  • Various stations for dust aspiration and elimination of breakages

  • Safe processing of even very small, thin and soft effervescent tablets

  • Filling volume on the tablet infeed conveyor can be adjusted independently for specific formats
  • Reproducible processes as parameters are precisely defined
  • Integral servo technology
  • Pick & place modules transfer the tubes to the filling station and discharge them

  • from upstream press and controlled tube transfer to downstream line components

What you can expect

  • Safe and gentle product handling

  • Easy and controlled direct connections

  • Use of our tableting laboratory KiTech to optimise your tableting process

  • Use of our packaging laboratory PacTech to test and optimise your application

  • One stop solution from powder and palletizer

Possible line solution consisting of

A tablet press (Kilian KTP 590X), transfer (Kilian TabTrans) and tube filler (Siebler STF 120)


Fragile and dusty products?

Do you have to process fragile products as effervescent tablets? Our laboratory PacTech can help you find the right customised Siebler solution. Moreover, our laboratory PacTech supports you e.g. with speed demonstrations as well as existing tube and tablets analysis.