Tablet Coatings

This article briefly describes some advantages of using nonperforated pans to coat tablets and pellets. Most Tablet coating systems in the pharmaceutical industry use perforated coating pans, and most pellet manufacturing (pellet coating) systems use fluid-bed processors, which mix, moisten, and agglomerate powders or apply successive layers of API to a core (powder layering). This article describes how non-perforated coating pans (also called solid-wall pans) can improve tablet coating and powder layering operations.