Solid Dose Manufacturing
At Pillar5, we have been providing high-value solid dose manufacturing to leading multinational organizations within Canada and the US since 2009. We offer legacy production of solid dose tablets for small to medium batch sizes and are committed to customer service, quality, and innovative and cost-effective solutions.
Our pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities include blending, fluid bed drying, high and low shear granulation, compression, encapsulation and tablet coating. We provide manufacturing for both over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription (Rx) products, offering our partners specialized, reliable, and cost-effective services.
With an annual capacity of over 250 million tablets, we can manage batch sizes from 100 to 700 kg and tablet sizes ranging from 100 to 500 mg.
Partner with the Pillar5 team to get your product to market efficiently, readily, and reliably.
Legacy production of solid dose tablets for the OTC and prescription markets in North America.
Solid Dose Blending Capabilities
Our facility offers industry-leading blending capabilities for solid dose tablet production, including the following equipment:
- Production Scale
- Two 40 cubic foot v-blender
- 10 cubic foot v-blender
- 5 cubic foot v-blender
- Development Scale
- Portable v-blender with capacity of 0.25 to 1 cubic foot (1)
We are able to blend batch sizes from 100 to 700 kg, based on the needs of your application. Our v-blenders offer an ideal blending solution for powders and fragile components, ensuring no reduction of material particle size and superior aseptic capabilities.
We offer various portable milling and sifting equipment on-site to assist with material size reduction in production.
Solid Dose Granulation
Granulation is one of the most critical stages in the production of solid dose tablets. This will process your initial components from powder into granules for compression.
At Pillar5, we have the capability to offer various processing methods for granulation, depending on the requirements of your product, including:
- Low Shear Granulation (Hobart Mixer)
- High Shear Granulation (Gral 600)
- Fluid Bed Drying Granulation (Automatic S6 Dryer)
Solid Dose Tableting
Our facility offers state-of-the-art equipment for solid dose tableting. Our three Fette Compacting tablet presses provide efficient, flexible, and integrated tableting solutions. All compression lines are equipped with metal detection and tablet dedusters.
If your product requires a coated tablet solution, we offer aqueous tablet coating capabilities to improve product stability, integrity, and ease of ingestion.
Our vision inspection systems ensure 100% inspection of logos in our tablet printing machines. This equipment uses sophisticated image matching and pattern recognition to identify defects on solid dose tablets of all sizes and removes them from production.
Bottling
- Solid dose automated bottle filling lines equipped with cremer electronic slat fillers.
- Lines have capability for rayon application, desiccant insertion, HIS sealing, T/E banding.
- Labelling equipment has an electronic vision system to monitor all crucial aspects of labelling.
- Lines equipped with automated case packers.
- Lines equipped with automated visual inspection for packaging.
Blistering
- Uhlmann UPS 1030/C2205
- Thermoformer/cartonner
- Forming equipment is equipped with vision system
- Capable of processing PVC/Alu or Aluminum/Alu presentation
- Capable of printing online foil with vision system
- Line is equipped with a Pester automated bundler
- IMA C70
- Thermoformer/cartonner
- Forming equipment is equipped with a vision system
- Capable of processing PVC/Alu presentation
- Capable of shrink-wrapping
Flexible Packaging
- Kalix Cartonner — This is utilized for automated cartooning operations and fitted with multiple component feeders.
- Semi-Automated Hand Packaging — This line is designed for complex/special presentation requiring semi-manual or manual operations.
Compression
- Fette 2090 36 station rotary tablet press
- Fette 2100 36 station rotary tablet press
- Fett 1200 24 station rotary tablet press
Tablet Coating
- 48” Acella Cota Coating Pan
- Quadro YTron Liquid Mixer
Solid Dose Encapsulation
We use industry-leading encapsulation technology from MG America. Our MG 120 48 station rotary encapsulator is equipped with Mocon weight verification system, metal detection, and capsule polishing equipment. It provides 100% weight verification for solid dose capsules from sizes 00 to 4.
Partner with our team to manufacture solid dose products.
