High-precision web material coating
Achieve precision coating with versatile solutions that ensure uniform application and reliable processing for transdermal and oral delivery systems, optimizing production efficiency and meeting strict quality standards.
Harro Höfliger offers a state-of-the-art High-Precision Coating and Drying System, designed specifically for sophisticated pharmaceutical and healthcare applications. This system specializes in applying and drying coatings on transdermal patches and oral films with unmatched precision. Leveraging various coating methods—slot die, comma bar, and knife over roll—it accommodates a range of viscosities and materials. The system’s modular and flexible design supports continuous operation, ensuring seamless integration into production lines.
Applications include transdermal delivery systems, oral dissolvable films, and mucoadhesive buccal films, leading to end-products such as nicotine patches and vitamin supplements. The equipment offers single or multi-zone drying processes to suit specific material needs, enhancing throughput efficiency. With compliance standards like GMP and GAMP, the system assures quality control and reliability.
Backed by Harro Höfliger’s expertise, the equipment is customizable, offering tailored solutions for unwinding, laminating, and rewinding processes. Its intelligent web tension control ensures precise material handling, while its CIP system ensures effortless cleaning and maintenance, supporting pharmaceutical compliance requirements.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality with precise coating and drying for consistent end-product results.
- Increases production flexibility with a modular design adaptable to various material viscosities.
- Reduces operational costs through energy-efficient drying processes.
- Guarantees compliance with GMP standards, ensuring industry-regulated quality assurance.
- Minimizes maintenance downtime with easy-to-clean features and intelligent material handling systems.
- Applications
- Oral dissolvable films,Polymer applications,Medical devices,Nutraceuticals,Transdermal therapeutic systems,Transdermal delivery systems,Coating materials,Mucoadhesive buccal films,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Naltrexone transdermal patches,Mucoadhesive dental patches,Oral dissolving strips,Vitamin b12 film supplements,Nicotine patches,Hormone replacement patches,Ibuprofen topical patches,Polymethyl methacrylate coatings,Cough suppressant films
- Steps before
- Unwinding,Web tension control
- Steps after
- Drying,Rewinding,Laminating,Converting,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- active ingredient containing matrix,web material,viscosity materials
- Output ingredients
- ODF – Oral Dissolvable Film,MBF – Mucoadhesive Buccal Films,TDS – Matrix patch,TTS – Transdermal therapeutic systems,coated web material,laminated multi-layer products
- Coating method
- Slot die / Comma bar / Knife over roll
- Accuracy
- High-precision coating
- Drying process
- Single or multi-zone drying
- Automation
- GMP and GAMP standard
- Scale-up possibilities
- Modular and flexible design
- Extended coater
- Additional drying system
- Standard coater
- Simple and effective
- Viscosity
- Suitable for higher viscosities (Slot die coating)
- Viscosity
- Suitable for lower viscosities (Knife over roll coating)
- Unwinding
- Precise unwinding and web guiding
- Web tension control
- Variably adjustable
- Drying concepts
- Various drying systems
- Rewinding
- Optimum web tension adjustment
- Laminating
- Precise laminating and coating rollers
- Coating process accuracy
- High precision
- Drying method
- Single or multi-zone
- Batch vs. inline flow
- Batch or continuous
- Modular design
- Yes
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- Web tension control
- Adjustable
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Drying System Type
- Advanced/Standard
- Machine footprint
- Modular and flexible design
- Coating method
- Slot die,Comma bar,Knife over roll
- Drying method
- Single or multi-zone drying
- Control panel type
- Adaptable to process requirements
- Unwinding system
- Adjustable web tension control
- Rewinding system
- Precise laminating and coating rollers
- Control panel type
- HMI with touchscreen
- Integration possibilities
- Compatible with existing systems
- Coating method
- Slot die / Comma bar / Knife over roll
- Drying process
- Single or multi-zone drying
- Design version
- Standard / Advanced coater versions
- Market info
- Harro Hoefliger is known for its expertise in manufacturing custom, engineered-to-order packaging and production equipment, particularly for the pharmaceutical, healthcare, consumer goods, and chemical industries, with a reputation for precision, innovation, and quality engineering solutions.