The tablet press first appeared earlier in Europe and the United States, and by 2021 it has more than a hundred years of history. In China, it was in 1949 after the founding of the People’s Republic of China that  Iron Factory began to imitate the British-style 33 punching film machine; in 1951, it was transformed into a domestic 18 punching film machine based on the American 16 punching film machine, which was made in China. The earliest pharmaceutical machinery.

In the 1970s, machinery factories in Shanghai and Shandong began to mass produce ZP series tablet presses as designated manufacturers of tablet presses. During the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" period, the 206 Institute of China's Ministry of Aeronautics and Astronautics developed the HZP26 high-speed tablet press. In the 1980s, the Shanghai No. 1 Pharmaceutical Machinery Factory designed and manufactured the ZP-21W tablet press, and China's tablet press time really entered the field of rotary tablet press time.

In the 21st century, with the deepening of cGMP certification, ZP series rotary tablet presses that fully meet the requirements have appeared one after another: ZP35D developed by our Guangdong Rich Packing and Shandong factory. High-speed rotary tablet presses have made great progress in production, pressure signal collection, waste rejection and other technologies. The maximum output is generally greater than 300,000 tablets/hour, the maximum pre-pressure is 20kN, and the maximum main pressure is 80kN or more than 100kN, such as Guangdong RICH PACKING's ZP17 to ZP99D series high-speed rotary tablet presses.

With the improvement of the technological level and automation of Chinese tablet press manufacturers and the continuous specialization of market demand, various special-purpose tablet presses have also appeared one after another.