Some powders consist of ingredients that have high elastic properties and therefore are difficult to compress. As a result, these powders have a risk for capping or lamination during compression or after dispensing. To remain competitive, these powders must nevertheless be compressed quickly and efficiently. These issues often lead to irreversible damage to tablet presses and tooling.
Capping or lamination of tablets during the process or during ejection of the tablets
Pressure dwell time is too short
High amount of damaged tablets
Tool or tablet press damage
Low hardness of the tablets
Too dry powder causes insufficient bonding
Too moist powder causes sticking issues on the punch surface
Reduction of penetration depth
Dies with conical opening for better deaeration
Special tools with larger punch heads, e.g. Kilian 28/41
Use of large pre and main pressure rollers for smooth acceleration and increased time to rearrange powder particles
Extending dwell time by slowing down the process speed
No capping or lamination issues
Increased yield
Increased productivity
Increased product quality
Decreased mechanical wear of tablet press and tooling
Use of our test laboratory KiTech to test your application
Our test laboratory KiTech can help you find the right customized Kilian solution. Moreover, our KiTech supports you e.g. with speed demonstrations and optimization as well as analyses and optimization of existing tableting processes.