2015 年 58 巻 p. 64-67
The market of powdery formulation is growing in the world. But cost competitiveness is looming. The continuous process is remarked to overcome the hurdle. A fine continuous mixer is a key issue in the process because a mixing is the first fundamental stage in the process and the uniformity of powders obtained by the mixer strongly affects the quality of final product. We proposed the new continuous mixer, “HOSOKAWA/ MICRON Modulomix”, as suitable machine to pharmaceutical industry. It gives the low relative standard deviation(RSD)for mixed product due to the unique design based onthe analysis applied chemical engineering model. Some European organizations have already adopted Modulomixfor R&D purposeof the continuous process with feeder, compactor, mill and NIR as Process analytical tool. They show the low RSD results(less than 5 %). We believe the system can contribute the development thepharmaceutical industry.