Pharma micro-extruder

Shortens development times for pharmaceutical and biomedical products

Looking for a convenient and efficient way to screen pharmaceutical or biomedical products with Hot Melt Extrusion (HME)? Our advanced technology enables your R&D department to drastically shorten its development time and costs, while speeding the time-to-market.

Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) is gaining popularity in the pharmaceutical industry because it formulates insoluble compounds into successful drug/polymer systems with better bioavailability. It is also becoming the technology of choice for modified release dosage forms because it does not use organic solvents. In the biomedical and medical device industry, HME is commonly used to manufacture local drug delivery systems like inserts and implants because of its environmental and operational advantages.

Twin-screw micro extruders

Until now, it was difficult to develop medicines and devices for HME production cost efficiently. Our twin-screw micro extrusion equipment offers fast and flexible screening to support your R&D process. It is suitable for use in a GMP environment so it can also be used for early clinical material production.

Your main advantages are:

  • Very easy to clean, designed to prevent cross contamination
  • Very easy to switch to another experiment or volume due to the flexible barrel system
  • Therefore much faster execution of your design of experiments
  • Extremely small volumes possible (down to 2 ml)
  • Easy to fill, also very fluffy materials
  • Dedicated fiber and film lines

See and try the Xplore Pharma extruder at Achema 2012 (booth C33, hall 4.0).

Demonstrations on the pharma extruder will be given on:

  • Monday & Thursday at 11:00 & 15:00 hrs
  • Tuesday & Wednesday at 15:00 hrs
  • Friday at 11:00 hrs

A mini seminar will be held on June 19 and 20, together with ProCept. Topic will be 'Solid dispersions in pharmaceutical applications'. Subscribing to this mini seminar is necessary and will be possible soon.