Understanding difficulties that can occur during manufacture and resolving them quickly can improve oral solid-dosage drug production. Sticking, when granule accumulates on the punch-tip face, is the ...

Tablets were first developed in the mid-1850s, during which sugar coating (SC) was primarily used to improve their surface characteristics and protect pharmaceutical agents from the harsh environment ...

The pharmaceutical processing industry coats tablets for different kinds of reasons. Tablets can be coated to improve the taste, appearance, swallowability, chemical stability and also to formulate a ...