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Non-pharmaceutical and special-shape tablet tooling

Parle Elizabeth has grown across different markets, offering the best solutions to its customers. This led us to a segment that opened new opportunities and allowed us to offer the best tooling for it — the non-pharmaceutical segment.

We aim to provide our valued customers with the best tablet tooling solutions, especially for the non-pharmaceutical segment, where a huge variety of shapes and sizes is found. This makes the task more complex, but does not stop us from giving our customers the best for mass production.

We manufacture special tooling for tablet presses that supports practically any tableting machine on today’s market. From unique sizes to special shapes, our team of experts will design custom punches and dies to your requirements. This special-shape tablet tooling is made from top-quality material that withstands high compression forces.

Coatings

Special tooling coatings help eliminate common problems such as sticking. Because tablet production parameters vary — including environmental conditions and differences in the formulations being compressed — the performance of these coatings may differ depending on the application.

Our experienced technical team works on this continuously and offers several types of coatings:

• Hard chrome
• Chromium nitride
• Titanium nitride
• Multilayer chromium nitride
• ENI coating

Special tablet tooling has a unique design

We offer tableting tooling solutions in which each press station can form more than one tablet. The number of tips depends on the punch type and the tablet size and shape.

More than one tip is placed on a single punch, increasing output and productivity.

Our latest computerised manufacturing equipment provides the precision required for this type of tooling, ensuring full alignment of components and interchangeability.

Our multi-tip tooling consists of a body, a cup and a tip. This compact design suits a variety of tablet presses for compressing micro-tablets from 1.8 to 4.00 mm, and can also be used for tablets from 4 mm to 10 mm. The tooling is user-friendly to install and set up on the tablet press.

Standard punches and dies for tablets

All our premium-grade punches and dies are made for high-speed tablet presses, for durability and productivity.

EU & TSM specifications

Parle Elizabeth complies with both standards for B, D, BB and BBS tooling configurations used on today’s international market: the American standard, known as TSM, and the European standard, known as EU or Euro Norm.
The TSM and EU tooling standards were established in the industry to provide a framework that protects companies investing in tooling while preserving established processes and procedures. TSM and EU configurations are very similar but are not interchangeable.

The best steel for a wide range of applications

There are thousands of steel grades, and only a few of them meet the demanding design and functional requirements of tableting. The chemical composition of the steel is only one part of the equation. Material selection should always be considered together with the tablet design to produce a robust punch.

Elizabeth Hata tablet presses – pioneers of multi-layer tablet technology

Elizabeth, a US company known for world-class tooling quality, joined forces with Japan’s Hata International, a pioneer of tableting technology, to create Elizabeth Hata — a manufacturer of tablet presses producing single-layer, bi-layer and tri-layer tablets as well as in-layer, core and exposed-core tablets.

Hata CVX tablet press

• Fast changeover from one format to another
• Design that is easy to clean by hand washing
• Easy access for quick parts replacement
• Portable, convenient control panel
• Good visibility of the compression zone
• Runs at up to 100 rpm

ECO VII AFR tablet press

• 15.0″ touch screen operator interface displaying the force of every punch at every revolution
• Detection of defective tablets by force measurement
• Compression force measured by load cell
• Start-up reject function discharges tablets via a slide into the reject chute at every machine start and stop
• Adjustable parameters such as speed, feeder speed, automatic lubrication, safety interlocks, hydraulic compression and many more

General specification

• Precision-machined nickel-plated head with lower punch
• Double feeder with clockwise and anticlockwise paddle rotation
• Pressure roller load: 100 kN / 10 tonnes for D tooling and 65 kN / 6.5 tonnes for B & BB tooling
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.0 to 7.0 mm for single layer and from 2.0 to 7.5 mm for bi-layer
• Double-wall design for easy maintenance
• SS 316 hopper with shut-off valve
• Tablet parameters controlled from the side of the machine via compression and fill-depth sensors
• Two-way SS 316 tablet discharge chute

ECO VII tablet press – standard model

• Ideal for high-volume production
• AHCOS – automatic hydraulic overload protection system
• Internal turret drive via high-torque worm gearbox
• Main motor and feeder motor controlled by AC variable frequency drive
• High motor power ensures no jerking or slipping, even when compressing large tablets
• Automatic start-up / stop reject to separate tablets made at the beginning and end of a batch
• Touch-screen control panel on a swivel arm includes emergency stop and RUN / OFF / SETUP mode selector
• Memory for 100 recipes

General specification

• Precision-machined nickel-plated head with lower punch
• Double feeder with clockwise and anticlockwise paddle rotation
• Pressure roller load: 100 kN / 10 tonnes for D tooling and 65 kN / 6.5 tonnes for B & BB tooling
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.0 to 7.0 mm for single layer and from 2.0 to 7.5 mm for bi-layer
• Double-wall design for easy maintenance
• SS 316 hopper with shut-off valve
• Tablet parameters controlled from the side of the machine via compression and fill-depth sensors
• Two-way SS 316 tablet discharge chute

ECO V AFR tablet press

• 15.0″ touch screen operator interface displaying the force of every punch at every revolution
• Detection of defective tablets by force measurement
• Compression force measured by load cell
• Start-up reject function discharges tablets via a slide into the reject chute at every machine start and stop
• Adjustable parameters such as speed, feeder speed, automatic lubrication, safety interlocks, hydraulic compression and many more

General specification

• Precision-machined nickel-plated head with lower punch
• Double feeder with clockwise and anticlockwise paddle rotation
• Pressure roller load: 100 kN / 10 tonnes for D tooling and 65 kN / 6.5 tonnes for B & BB tooling
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.0 to 7.0 mm for single layer and from 2.0 to 7.5 mm for bi-layer
• Double-wall design for easy maintenance
• SS 316 hopper with shut-off valve
• Tablet parameters controlled from the side of the machine via compression and fill-depth sensors
• Two-way SS 316 tablet discharge chute

ECO V tablet press – standard model

• Ideal for high-volume production
• Tablet press fully cGMP-compliant, with a robust four-pillar construction
• AHCOS – automatic hydraulic overload protection system
• Internal turret drive via high-torque worm gearbox
• Main motor and feeder motor controlled by AC variable frequency drive
• High motor power ensures no jerking or slipping, even when compressing large tablets
• Automatic start-up / stop reject to separate tablets made at the beginning and end of a batch
• Memory for 100 recipes

General specification

• Precision-machined nickel-plated head with lower punch
• Double feeder with clockwise and anticlockwise paddle rotation
• Pressure roller load: 100 kN / 10 tonnes for D tooling and 65 kN / 6.5 tonnes for B & BB tooling
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.0 to 7.0 mm for single layer and from 2.0 to 7.5 mm for bi-layer
• Double-wall design for easy maintenance
• SS 316 hopper with shut-off valve
• Tablet parameters controlled from the side of the machine via compression and fill-depth sensors
• Two-way SS 316 tablet discharge chute

ECO IV tablet press – standard model

• Ideal for medium-output production
• Tablet press fully cGMP-compliant in terms of design, materials, easy access, etc.
• Turret driven by a robust external worm gear system
• High motor power ensures no jerking or slipping, even when compressing large tablets
• Main motor controlled by AC variable frequency drive
• Forced feeding for bi-layer compression (optional)
• Integrated electrical control panel
• Automatic lubrication of the central column and upper and lower punches
• Feeder motor controlled by AC variable frequency drive

General specification

• Precision-machined nickel-plated head with lower punch
• Double feeder with clockwise and anticlockwise paddle rotation
• Pressure roller load: 100 kN / 10 tonnes for D tooling and 65 kN / 6.5 tonnes for B & BB tooling
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.5 to 8.0 mm for single layer and from 2.7 to 9.0 mm for bi-layer
• Double-wall design for easy maintenance
• SS 316 hopper with shut-off valve
• Tablet parameters adjusted from the front of the machine with control knobs
• Robust central column design that withstands high loads

ECO III SL AFR tablet press

• 15.0″ touch screen operator interface displaying the force of every punch at every revolution
• Detection of defective tablets by force measurement
• Compression and ejection force measured by load cell
• Start-up reject function diverts tablets through a gate into the reject chute at every machine start and stop

General specification

• Nickel-plated turret (corrosion-resistant)
• Hard-anodised aluminium gravity feeder
• Pressure roller load of 120 kN / 12 tonnes
• Variable upper punch stroke from 1.5 to 8.0 mm
• Alloy steel (EN353) pull-down cam to reduce dust generation at upper punch entry
• Turret driven by a robust external worm gear system
• Tablet parameters adjusted from outside the machine using compression and fill-depth scales
• Robust central column design that withstands high loads