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Tablets & Capsules May/June 2021 37 Pin mill CIM-18-S316 pin mill grinds friable powders, flakes, and granules into con- trolled particle sizes. Outer and inner discs swing away from the unit on cantilevered arms, providing full access to both sides of both discs and the mill housing for rapid cleaning and sanitizing. Mill's inner disc rotates at high speed, creating centrifugal force that accelerates bulk material entering the cen- tral inlet of the opposing stationary disc. As material travels from the center to the periphery of the discs at high speed, it passes through five intermeshing rows of rotating and stationary impactor pins. Unit's infinitely variable speed rotor rotates at up to 5,400 rpm, for coarse grinding and deagglomeration as well as fine grinding down to 400 mesh. Munson Machinery, Utica, NY 800 944 6644 www.munsonmachinery.com Tablet compression consulting services Company provides on-site consulting services for formulation, granulation, milling, hot-melt extrusion, tableting, coating, and blending. Company's comprehensive tablet compression R&D services include detailed powder characterization studies and scale-up assistance; improving processes to help decrease development times and avoid scale-up challenges and manufacturing issues, such as robustness, sticking, picking, capping, and lamination; formu- lation modification to improve tablet quality; tabletability and compactibility profiles; ejection profiles to optimize powdered lubrication; compaction sim- ulation data; containment/clean-up protocol creation, and characterization of material deformation properties. Company also provides tablet press calibra- tion and preventative maintenance, calibration verification, tablet design and tooling recommendation, and hands-on technical training. Natoli Scientific, St. Charles, MO 636 926 8900 www.natoli.com Compact bead mill DeltaVita 1 compact bead mill uses two angled disks that rotate up to 40 sam- ple vessels at once while maintaining a user-specified temperature, providing particle-size reduction similar to agitator bead mills. Lab-scale unit speeds for- mulation development and is ideal for producing nano-suspensions, liposomes, and emulsions. Device accepts API batch sizes from 0.1 to 1 gram and is suit- able for use with grinding media up to 2 millimeters in diameter. Formulations can be scaled up to company's larger agitator bead mills for further product development and production. Netzsch, Exton, PA 484 879 2020 www.netzsch-grinding.com