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In July 2025, Rich Packing, a leading Chinese pharmaceutical equipment company, officially launched its new generation full-servo intelligent rotary tablet press (Model: RP-HGZP-17). Designed for small and medium-sized pharmaceutical and health product companies sensitive to tablet weight errors, this equipment utilizes a servo tablet weight control system, intelligent detection and rejection technology, and a modular, tool-free mold change system. It achieves an average tablet weight accuracy of ≤±2%, improves mold change efficiency by 300%, and helps customers pass FDA, UL, and cGMP certifications while reducing raw material waste by 47%.     Core Technology Breakthroughs in Tablet Pressing Military-Grade Material Construction ♦  The tablet press main body is constructed from high-strength 2Cr13 stainless steel with a hardness of HRC 45-50 and 200% enhanced corrosion resistance. ♦  The upper and lower layers of the rotary turntable are upgraded with tin-mixed QT600 cast iron, featuring 3500MPa impact resistance, superior wear and heat resistance, and a lifespan of 50,000 hours. ♦  The automatic tablet press machine is equipped with an industrial-grade explosion-proof high-power vacuum cleaner, a powder circulation system, and a fully enclosed 304 stainless steel cover, ensuring compliance with FDA/cGMP hygiene certification.     Intelligent Tablet Weight Control System ♦  Servo motors drive the up-and-down movement of the filling guide rail, enabling intelligent control over the cavity size formed by the lower punch within the middle die. This system in tablet press machine provides real-time feedback compensation for fluctuations in powder fill volume. ♦  Dynamic Tablet Weight Control Accuracy: Based on laboratory data, tablet weight accuracy error is strictly controlled within ±1.5%. In mass production environments, it consistently achieves a stable tablet weight error of ±2%.     Triple Quality Assurance System ♦  Real-time Punching Monitoring: Utilizes a main pressure wheel pressure sensor array. Effectiveness of rotary tablet press: 99.98%. ♦  Intelligent Waste Rejection System: Employs positive pressure blowing or solenoid valve rejection. Tablet weight qualification rate: >99.99%. ♦  Middle Die Ultra-Fine Processing: Incorporates a boring machine + honing secondary processing process. Aperture tolerance: ±3μm.   Revolutionary Innovations for Cost Reduction and Efficiency Increase 30-Minute Tool-Free Die Change System Our intelligent tablet press features an original quick-release middle die fixture. This utilizes a rectangular surface contact structure for middle die top clamping, replacing the traditional conical point contact structure. This design significantly reduces the risk of the middle die being dislodged under high pressure. Operators can complete the...

Exhibition Overview Rich Packing participated in the CPHI China exhibition held in Shanghai from June 24 to 26, 2025. The exhibition attracted numerous domestic and international buyers, suppliers, and pharmaceutical industry professionals, providing Rich Packing with an excellent platform to showcase its capabilities and product advantages. During the event, the company actively communicated and interacted with customers to understand market demands and industry trends, laying a solid foundation for subsequent product development and market expansion.     Product Display Rich Packing's booth, located at NID50, featured an eye-catching design that attracted significant customer attention. The company displayed a variety of advanced pharmaceutical and packaging equipment, including: sachet pouch cartoning packaging line, high-speed tablet press, CCD camera counting machine, capsule and tablet counting and bottling line, NJP-1500D capsule filling machine and more.   These products were widely welcomed during the exhibition, with their advanced technology and high-efficiency operation receiving strong customer recognition.   sachet pouch cartoning packaging line: This equipment utilizes full servo technology, incorporating up to 10 advanced servo motors throughout the machine. It enables fully automated operation from single-dose powder/granule medicine soft pouch packaging to cartoning, significantly enhancing production efficiency and packaging quality. Its intelligent control system achieves filling accuracy of ±0.02g and allows flexible adjustments based on different packaging requirements.     High-Speed Tablet Press: The HGZP-26/40D and HGZP-45/75D high-speed rotary tablet presses feature high speed and efficiency, producing 260,000 and 680,000 tablets per hour respectively. Simultaneously, their intelligent control systems enable real-time pressure monitoring for each mold and achieve batch tablet weight deviations below 0.01g, ensuring tablet quality and consistency.   Capsule and Tablet Counting and Bottling Line: This complete production line enables rapid and accurate capsule/tablet counting and bottling, incorporating components like a bottle unscrambler, automatic high-speed counting and bottling machine, desiccant inserter, checkweigher, capping machine, induction aluminum foil sealer, and labeling machine. Counting accuracy exceeds 99.97%. Its advanced counting technology and bottling system effectively prevent drug waste and contamination.     High-Speed Capsule Filling Machine: The NJP-1500D pharmaceutical capsule machine accommodates full-size standard capsules (#000-#5) and fills powder/granules into hollow capsules. Output reaches up to 90,000 capsules per hour, meeting large-scale production demands. The quick mold change design reduces daily use, cleaning, and maintenance time by 68% compared to similar products. Patented turnt...

A great number of consumers favor gelatin capsules or vegetarian capsules that encapsulate drugs or dietary supplement as their preferred method for taking medications and nutritional supplements. This preference exists according to some benefits that capsules offer over other dosage forms such as pills and tablets.   Primarily, the tasteless and odorless nature makes capsules considerably easier to swallow, masking any unpleasant flavor associated with active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Furthermore, capsules are designed to dissolve rapidly in intestines, facilitating quicker absorption into humans’ bloodstream. From a manufacturing perspective, capsule filling production is frequently more streamlined and cost-effective than the complex tablet compression required for pills.       hard gelatin capsules encapsulating drug powder     When sourcing empty capsules, a critical decision lies in selecting the appropriate capsule shell material: gelatin capsules VS vegetarian capsules. The market offers a division between vegetarian capsule shells—such as shells made from HPMC (hydroxypropyl methylcellulose) and Pullulan derived from fermented tapioca—and traditionally animal-sourced gelatin capsule shells. While consumers’ dietary or cultural requirements may guide this choice, understanding both vegetable capsules and gelatin capsules enables pharmaceutical manufacturers to make a proper selection, balancing factors like dissolution rates, oxygen barrier properties, stability, and consumer preferences.     Where Does Gelatin Come from?   Consumers sometimes ask: what are gelatin capsules made of? Gelatin is a unique biopolymer, most commonly sourced from bones, skin, and connective tissues of animals. Through a complex manufacturing process, these raw materials are transformed into the familiar brittle, translucent solid almost tasteless and odorless. The fundamental transformation occurs through the partial hydrolysis of collagen, a primary structural protein found abundantly in animals. This process breaks down large collagen molecules into a manageable mixture of smaller peptides and proteins, resulting in the substance we know as gelatin.   Common sources for gelatin production include cattle (beef), pigs (pork), and poultry (chicken), with the choice of raw material influencing final products’ characteristics. For instance, gelatin derived from animal bones tends to form a tough and hazy film, structurally strong but relatively brittle. In contrast, gelatin obtained from pork or other animal skins yields a much clearer material with better plasticity and flexibility.   These distinct properties dictate applications for each gelatin type. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies often utilize specific blends of bone and skin gelatin to manufacture two-piece har...

Blister packaging machines, core equipment in the modern pharmaceutical, food, and electronic component packaging industries, directly impact production efficiency and product quality through their performance. With intensifying market competition and rising consumer demands for packaging, buyers are demanding more than just basic functionality from blister machines; they demand multiple features, including high precision, intelligent operation, and exceptional stability. This article will focus on three key features: full servo drive, four-station mandrel positioning, and modular mold design. It will also analyze how these technologies can bring practical benefits to buyers, reducing costs while improving overall production efficiency.         1. Full Servo Drive: Zero-Error Pulling and Long-Term Stable Operation   Full servo drive technology is the core of high-precision control for blister packaging machines and a key embodiment of the modern Industry 4.0 concept in packaging equipment. Traditional blister machines mostly use mechanical or partial servo drives. These drive methods are prone to deviations in pull distance due to wear of transmission components, temperature fluctuations, or prolonged operation, which in turn affects the uniformity of blister formation and sealing quality. The full servo drive system, through digital intelligent control, achieves zero-error adjustment of the pulling distance, ensuring precise positioning of each blister cavity. This system employs multiple servo motors working in concert with high-precision encoders for real-time feedback, creating a closed-loop control system. This ensures exceptional stability, regardless of high-speed operation or long-term continuous production, completely eliminating the problem of increased scrap rates caused by accumulated errors.         For buyers, the benefits of full servo drive are multifaceted. First, it significantly reduces the difficulty of equipment adjustment and operational complexity. Operators no longer need to rely on complex mechanical adjustments or frequent calibration. Instead, they simply input relevant parameters through an intuitive touchscreen interface, and the system automatically performs precise positioning and optimized settings. This not only significantly reduces the potential for human error but also significantly shortens commissioning time when changing product specifications. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, tablets and capsules can vary significantly in size and shape. The full servo drive system of tablet blister packing machine allows production lines to quickly switch modes within minutes, ensuring the equipment is quickly back in efficient operation, effectively meeting the flexible production needs of high-mix, small-batch production.   Second, the equipment's long-term operational stability allows buyers to confidently produce large orders without worrying ...

1.Written for procurement: outcomes over nameplate speed   If you buy equipment for nutraceutical manufacturing, you juggle fast-changing SKUs, tight deadlines, tricky powders, rigorous audits, and fixed budgets. The right capsule filling machine  is not the one that claims the highest brochure speed; it is the one that sustains stable throughput, holds weight targets, shortens changeovers, simplifies cleaning, preserves traceability, and keeps total cost of ownership under control on your real powders and in your real rooms. This article explains how to match formulations to process, what to look for inside an automatic capsule filler machine, which models fit which buyers, and how to approve a line with a minimal acceptance checklist.         2.Application & powder matching: choose the method, then talk speed   Because formulas behave differently, you should select the operating method first and negotiate speed afterward.  For probiotics and enzymes, which are low in bulk density and sensitive to moisture and heat, it is best to run at a low RH setpoint (commonly 30–40% RH), use gentle dosing, minimize exposure time, and prefer HPMC shells. Botanical extracts such as turmeric or ashwagandha are cohesive, dusty, and prone to static, so you stabilize dosing with multi-tamp dosing, install targeted dust extraction at the dosing zone, and support the hopper with vibration or anti-bridging while validating any flow aids for compatibility.Mineral fills like magnesium citrate are heavy and abrasive; they typically perform best on multi-tamp dosing with wear-resistant parts, and you should track disc and pin wear within a defined spares plan. Amino, caffeine, and other nootropic micro-dose blends segregate easily, so a dosator micro-dosing setup, combined with frequent in-process checks and simple control charts, helps prevent drift and chronic over-fill. When encapsulating oils or semi-solids in hard capsules, leakage becomes the primary risk; a liquid module with temperature control paired with or an inner plug, supported by routine leak testing, keeps complaints and rework low. Shell choice also influences stability and yield. HPMC tolerates lower humidity but can become brittle in very dry rooms, whereas gelatin can become tacky in warm or humid conditions; therefore, machines that offer adjustable vacuum separation and gentle separation mechanics allow both shell types to run reliably.     3.Inside the machine: the structure and functions that actually matter   A dependable system starts with feeding, orientation, and separation. When a stable hopper and orienter are combined with adjustable vacuum separation, rim cracks and jams on HPMC at low RH are reduced significantly. Dosing modules determine most of your accuracy and uptime. The approach gives broad adaptability and high speed that suits botanicals and minerals, while a dosator micro-dosing station provides depth-con...

A wide array of tablet defects can arise during tablet manufacturing and tablet coating, compromising pill quality and drug efficacy. Common issues such as capping, cracking, chipping, and sticking/picking present challenges for tablet manufacturers. For better eliminating defects in tablets, we explore root causes of these frequent tableting deffects and provide practical solutions to handle and prevent defective tablets, ensuring a robust tablet manufacturing process.         1 Tablet Defects Related to Tablet Appearance and Integrity   This category of tablet defect directly affects the appearance of drug tablets, patient medication experience, and image of pharmaceutical manufacturers. Root causes of these tablet defects are often related to granule properties (moisture content, cohesive strength, granule flowability), equipment parameters (pill press pressure, tablet pressing speed, tablet presser tooling condition), and environmental conditions (humidity, temperature).   In actual tablet manufacturing, it is necessary to follow the process of "troubleshooting tablet granules → adjusting pill presses → controlling tablet pressing environment" to handle specific defects of tablets and let quality of medication tablets meet tablet production standards. In the following paragraphs, we will indicate 5 main tablet defects in tablet manufacturing.   Defect Type Appearance Characteristics Occurrence Location Common Causes Cracking Fine linear cracks (no material loss) Surface or internal Insufficient binder, overly dry granules Capping Top/bottom annular layer separation Upper/lower punch contact surface High granule elasticity, excessive main compression force Chipping Edge chipping / burrs (small fragments broken off) Tablet edges Worn die bores, poor granule flowability Sticking Rough, sticky surface with powder adhering to punches Entire surface High moisture content, low punch smoothness Picking Surface defects/holes corresponding to punch engravings Punch engraving, recess area Punch recess, excessive fine powder Flaking Flaky surface layer peeling Random surface areas Uneven binder distribution, insufficient pre-compression       1.1 Cracking   Tablet cracking refers to the appearance of irregular fine cracks inside or on the surface of a tablet. These cracks may run through entire cracked pills or be localized. These defective tablets typically show no obvious signs of material breaking off and often require close observation or light pressure to be detected.       ●Appearance Characteristics of Cracking     ○Linear fissures are visible on the surface or in the cross-section, with a color consistent with the tablet body.     ○Cracks may be distributed along the tablet diameter, edge, or center, and these defective tablets are prone to brea...

How are tablets made? Manufacturing tablets is a complex process of transforming active pharmaceutical ingredients (API in the form of powder or granules) and excipients into a solid, precise oral dosage form. The core goal is to ensure pharmaceutical tablets contain the same amount of tablet composition.   This tablet manufacturing process typically involves key steps like granulation where fine powders are processed into larger and flowable granules to ensure uniformity, and tablet compression where these granules are pressed into their final tablet form between two punches under high pressure. This meticulous tablet manufacturing procedure guarantees dosage accuracy, stability, and efficacy.   tablets and punches that press pharmaceutical ingredients into tablets     1. Objectives of Tablet Manufacturing   The science of tablet production is driven by a set of critical, non-negotiable objectives which ensure final medication tablets are not only effective but also safe and reliable.   ●Uniformity of Drug Tablets: Every batch of pharmaceutical tablets must have a consistent formulation, meaning each individual pill or tablet is identical in its diameter, thickness, and weight, since this physical consistency is the foundation of dose accuracy, ensuring patients receive the correct amount of tablet ingredient every time.   ●Medicine Tablet Safety & Efficacy: Medicine tablets must be bioavailable, with all tablet ingredients being non-toxic, made for human body to absorb the pharmaceutical ingredient effectively.   ●Physical Stability: Drug tablets must be hard and compact enough to withstand the impact during pill manufacturing, tablet coating, pharmaceutical packaging, and global shipping without chipping or breaking. Conversely, pills and tablets must not be so hard that they fail to disintegrate within the gastrointestinal tract.   ●Chemical Stability: The medicine tablet formulation must remain chemically unchanged over pill shelf life, protected from degradation by factors such as moisture, light, and oxygenation, to guarantee the therapeutic effect.   ●Finished Tablet Quality: Medication tablets should have a smooth, polished surface, often achieved by using a tablet polishing machine that integrates functions of a tablet deduster and a metal detector, which removes residual dust on tablets and enhances product appearance.       ●Drug Release Design: Drug tablets must be designed to disintegrate and dissolve at the correct rate and location in the digestive tract to release tablet ingredients for absorption, whether it's an immediate, delayed, or extended drug release.     2. How Are Pills Made? Techniques ...

  When you source pharmaceutical packaging machines, especially in China, many suppliers claim that their machines are in compliance with GMP and cGMP. But does it really fit GMP and cGMP? And what does GMP exactly mean? How can we discern it when selecting the packaging machines? When we talk about GMP—Good Manufacturing Practice—it’s really about trust.Every tablet, capsule, or bottle of medicine you see on the shelf carries with it a promise: that it’s safe, consistent, and exactly what the label says. GMP makes this promise come true.   GMP History Background But this promise came at a cost. In 1937, a new “elixir” appeared in the United States. It was a sweet liquid version of sulfanilamide—easy to swallow, especially for children. Parents trusted it, doctors prescribed it, and pharmacies sold it nationwide. But within weeks, tragedy struck. Patients, many of them children, began dying. The culprit? The manufacturer had used diethylene glycol—a toxic solvent also found in antifreeze—as the base of the medicine. No safety tests were done beforehand. The result: 107 lives lost in a matter of months. This disaster shocked the nation. It became painfully clear that testing the final product was not enough—the entire process of making medicine needed strict control.     In response, the U.S. government passed the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, giving the FDA authority to oversee drug safety. A few decades later, after other tragedies like the thalidomide disaster in Europe, the U.S. introduced the Kefauver–Harris Amendments of 1962, which legally required pharmaceutical production to follow current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP). From then on, GMP was no longer just a guideline—it became the global language of quality, gradually adopted by Europe, Japan, China, and recognized under WHO standards.   How cGMP Compliance of Pharmaceutical Packaging Machines Is Verified in China In China, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) enforces cGMP inspections on pharmaceutical and health-care packaging equipment. The goal is to ensure that machinery used in drug production meets international quality and safety standards.   1. In What Way? Routine Inspections: Planned evaluations carried out regularly to confirm ongoing compliance. Unannounced “Flight” Inspections: Surprise audits without prior notice, designed to uncover hidden risks and test the manufacturer’s real compliance level. 2. Inspection Focuses on What? Cleanroom & Contamination Control: Whether the equipment design prevents cross-contamination and supports cleanroom integration. Such as whether the drive system, normally with lubrication oil, is built separated with the output part. Material & Structure: Verification that contact parts use compliant materials (e.g., 316L stain...

A capsule filling machine is designed to precisely fill empty capsule shells with measured doses of powder, granules, pellets, or liquid formulations. For large-scale pharmaceutical or nutraceutical production, stable and uninterrupted machine operation is paramount to meet output demands and ensure product quality.   Achieving this essential stability relies on robust engineering features. A leading-edge automatic capsule filling machine incorporates critical components such as precisely engineered built-in cams and oil-free bearings. These elements are fundamental to minimizing vibration, reducing wear, and guaranteeing smooth, reliable motion throughout extended high-speed operation. This inherent mechanical stability is vital for maintaining the high degree of filling precision required for accurate dosage in every capsule produced.   a fully automatic capsule filling machine     1. Key Considerations When Selecting a Capsule Filling Machine Achieving stable, long-term operation requires mastering specific operational practices and maintenance secrets, while selecting a right capsule filler based on critical factors is the essential first step.    ●Operational Stability: Precision is paramount, while machine operational stability is the pillar that upholds precision. Look for a capsule filler filling machine incorporating advanced mechanisms like optical dividing heads for indexing that enhances dosing consistency and minimizes capsule weight variation. Crucially, verify claims of a pharmaceutical equipment supplier through documented evidence demonstrating that the capsule filler consistently achieves filling errors ≤3% across its operating range.      ●Speed & Output: Pharmaceutical production demands dictate speed requirements. Machines vary widely, from a smaller semi auto capsule filling machine to a high-output industrial capsule filling machine automatic. A high-speed automatic capsule filler machine is capable of outputting over 500,000 capsules per hour. Carefully assess your current and projected volumes to select a pill capsule making machine that efficiently meets your throughput targets without excessive overcapacity or bottlenecks.     ●Versatility: Flexibility is key for capsule filling operations. Consider the ability of a capsule machine to handle diverse powder types, including cohesive, free-flowing, and herbal blends, and potentially other formulations like pellets or granules. Equally significant is compatibility with multiple sizes of capsule from size 00 to size 4. A versatile fully automatic capsule filling machine offers significant advantages for product line expansion and adaptation to progressive market needs.   ●Regulatory Compliance: Adherence to strict medicine quality and safety standards is non-negotiable in pharmaceutical sec...