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Customized Dust Collection Modifications Helps Prominent US Pharma Customer Improve Yield

ACG Capsules Technical Services Team implements a dust diversion system that allows for formulation reuse, significantly reducing product waste and machine downtime.

Af 90 T Capsule Filler

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ACG, a supplier of end-to-end manufacturing solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, recently helped a prominent U.S. pharmaceuticals company increase batch yield for a product whose dust-prone formulation was resulting in unacceptable wastage of more than 5%. In 2019, modifications made by ACG Capsules Technical Services Team to the manufacturers’ four ACG capsule filling machines resulted in drastically reduced product waste and vastly diminished equipment downtime, according to the company.

The project involved ACG’s AF-90T Capsules Fillers, which can produce up to 90,000 capsules per hour.

The key issue with this application was dust. The moderate build-up of dust, which isn’t actual dust but rather lost product, is endemic to most capsule filling operations, with the amount of dusting relying, in part, on the properties of the specific formulation being filled. As it ramped up production on a particularly dust prone drug, The parma company realized that dust build-up was leading to product waste levels exceeding 5% and, due to frequent cleaning breaks, extended machine downtime.Af 90 T Capsule Filler

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