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Tablets & Capsules April 2017 43 Tablet tester SmartTest 50 tablet tester measures weight, thickness, length, width, and hardness in compliance with pharma- copeias. You can load as many as 23 tablets of any size into carousel for automated testing; if you require larger sample sizes, tablet tester can cycle through 100 tablets and com- bine test runs into single test report. Alignment system auto- matically orients oblong and oval tablets for width and length measurement before hardness testing. S-beam load cell measures tablet hardness with 99.95 percent linearity. Test data can be evaluated and printed immediately or exported. Color touch-screen with icon-driven menu reduces time to train operators. Unit retains and recalls pro- grams for testing as many as 100 products. Sotax, Westborough, MA. Tel. 508 417 1112 www.sotax.com WD-XRF spectrometer ZSX Primus IV wavelength dispersive x-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF) spectrometer nondestructively determines major and trace element compositions. Applications include high- volume quality control and high-end research. Features include tube-above optics that minimizes effects of contami- nants and nearly eliminates downtime; 30-micron tube win- dow that maximizes light-element detection; mapping that provides elemental or topographical distributions; analysis that handles samples as small as 500 microns; helium seal that ensures optics remain under vacuum; and ZSX guidance soft- ware that assists you through all aspects of XRF measurement and analysis so novice operators can analyze samples like experts. EZ-scan software analyzes unknown samples with no prior setup. Rigaku Americas, The Woodlands, TX. Tel. 281 362 2300 www.rigaku.com Ackley machines start with a mound of tablets or capsules and position each one in a nest where you can then print, laser mark, laser drill and/or inspect with pixel precision, every time — at speeds that can reach a million tablets an hour! And with our patented, fail-safe single tablet rejection, you don't waste perfectly good product, optimizing your production rates – saving you money on every run. See what Ackley machines can do for you. View our video at: AckleyMachine.com Or call 856-234-3626 today! SINGULATE. PRINT. MARK. DRILL. INSPECT. WITH PIXEL PRECISION.