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TABLETS & CAPSULES Tablets & Capsules (ISSN 1549-9928 print; ISSN 1938-9159 online) is published by CSC Publishing, Inc, 1155 Northland Drive, Saint Paul, MN 55120. w w w . t a b l e t s c a p s u l e s . c o m July 2019 Volume 17 Number 5 Cover photo shows Nu-Bind excipi- ent, a natural alternative to syn- thetic and plasticized binders, including HPC, PVP, HPMC, PEF, pregelatinized starch, and gelatin. Certified organic tablets can be made using the binder, allowing natural and organic supplement manufacturers to produce clean-la- bel solid oral dosage products. Company offers various other natu- ral and organic excipients. Courtesy of Ribus. For more information, call 314 727 4287 or visit www.ribus.com. EXCIPIENTS & FORMULATION Developing oral controlled-release drug products 13 Richard Sidwell Using next-generation HPMC polymers as an alternative to gelatin for hard capsules 18 Matt Richardson and Nicolas Madit Issue focus: Excipients & formulation 22 Taste masking orally disintegrating tablet formulations 24 Sreeramaiah Arunkumar, Vinay Muley, Michael Baumann, and Rina Chokshi Excipients and continuous manufacturing 33 Chris Moreton How understanding material deformation characteristics can improve tableting process scale-up 36 Robert Sedlock ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Mixers & blenders: A survey of what's available 28 Blending and tablet compression: Air percolation 30 Fred A. Rowley Tooling: A survey of what's available 40 Back page Cover 3 David R. Schoneker DEPARTMENTS Research 6 Markets 6 Industry news 8 Industry innovations 42 Calendar 43 Supplier news 44 People news 45 Product update 45 Web review 46 Advertiser index 48 Spotlight on Nutraceuticals 32A (This section appears four times yearly in issues delivered to our nutraceutical readership.)