Pneumatic Conveying Systems Prescription for Maximizing Material Delivery
VAC-U-MAX pre-engineered and custom solutions make pharmaceutical process less tedious.

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The process of making tablets and capsules has always been tedious, and although there have been immense advances in equipment that make the process less so, one of the principal factors engineers must consider is how that equipment will affect the final product.

When ingredients alone can cost hundreds of dollars an ounce, material handling can present costly challenges in all steps of the process including loading blenders, sifters, tablet presses, capsule fillers, getting the finished product to packaging and material recovery.

Whether it is direct loading of blenders, mixers and other vacuum tolerant vessels, gentle handling of empty or filled capsules, the dust-free transfer of ingredients to table presses, or clean up of materials, pneumatic conveying systems and vacuum technology have become an indispensible tool in streamlining pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production lines.

Pneumatically conveying material to processing equipment is a relatively simple concept consisting of 5 components that come together to act as a single unit. In the most basic of explanations, material gets sucked into chamber for a period of time long enough to fill a container, the vacuum turns off, the valve of the chamber opens up, discharges the material, closes and then the process repeats itself again.

Since no two processes are identical, conveying solutions are often customized using off the shelf systems that are adapted to process operations for easy integration and automation.

VAC-U-MAX, pioneer in pharmaceutical grade pneumatic conveying systems, couples its proven preengineered conveying solutions with industry expertise to design custom solutions for pharmaceutical processors.

These versatile systems are easily integrated into existing process by routing conveying lines between floors, through partitions, around machinery, and are also easily re-routed to accommodate process modifications.

Two systems that are commonly adapted in the pharmaceutical arena to eliminate tedious manual labor, keep work areas cleaner and speed up operations are the company’s Multiple Tablet Press Loading System and Tablet Coating Pan Unloading and Package Filling System.

VAC-U-MAX also combines modern electronic technology with innovative mechanical and pneumatic design to produce handling systems that not only free operators of physical effort, but also perform sophisticated operations with minimal assistance. Systems can be designed to convey multiple ingredients from different pick up points into weigh hoppers and automatically batch them according to preprogrammed formulations. Adapter spouts that rotate can also be used to route material to different mixers.

Recognizing that materials behave differently under various conditions, VAC-U-MAX has a long-standing practice of offering no obligation test runs of customers’ materials in their testing facility. For more information on the VAC-U-MAX line of vacuum receiver and pneumatic conveying systems for pharmaceutical applications please call 800-VAC-U-MAX.