Pharmaceutical companies throughout the USA and Canada count on our instruments to precisely measure their products.
Easily measure critical physical characteristics of pharmaceutical products such as tablets, hard gel capsules, soft gel capsules, every type of adhesives, fast disintegrating tablets, gels, beads, microspheres, and many more with our instruments.
The TA.XTPlus, TA.HDPlus, and TA.XTExpress Texture Analyzers are simple to calibrate and easy to validate, offering researchers and engineers more than traditional test methods. Our texture measurement instruments are popular in R&D and QA/QC environments, as well as universities' Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Materials Science/Polymer/Bio-Engineering.
Your graduate school training probably did not include instruction about how and why to test the physical properties and behaviors of pharmaceutical products. However, drug delivery is critically tied to firmness, adhesiveness, cohesiveness and other physical behaviors.
How can you measure the hardness of a tablet? Or the adhesive properties of a transdermal patch?
For over 25 years, we have helped hundreds of pharmaceutical companies throughout North America answer these and other questions. The TA.XTPlus, TA.HDPlus, and TA.XTExpress Texture Analyzers are simple to calibrate and are easy to validate. The instruments offer researchers and engineers more than traditional test methods. Our Texture Analyzers are used extensively for the testing of tablets, hard gel capsules, soft gel capsules, every type of adhesives, fast disintegrations products, gels, beads, microspheres and many more pharmaceutical products. Every critical physical characteristics of these products can be easily quantified with the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer and the Exponent software program.
Popularity for great reasons.
Our texture measurement instruments are popular in both commercial Research & Development environments as well as in many university departments of pharmaceutical sciences and materials science/polymer/bio-engineering. Commercial and academic laboratories use the instrument to design new drug formulations and controlled delivery mechanisms. Quality Control / Quality Assurance departments use our texture analyzers to ensure consistency between different plants, batches and shifts and to establish reproducible specifications for suppliers.
What can our instruments measure?
Among the pharmaceuticals that our testing equipment can analyze include: adhesives, absorbent materials, bones and ligaments, capsules, syrups, creams, pastes, lotions and ointments, fast disintegration tablets, fillers and incipient, firm and soft gels, foams and sponges, medical/cosmetic/silicon gels, medical tapes, microspheres and gel beads, muco-adhesives and bio-adhesives, needle sharpness, packaging material, powders, tablets, transdermals and patches, suppositories, and syringes. Among the physical properties that can be analyzed using the Texture Analyzer include: absorption and swelling, adhesion and tackiness, bloom strength, bone strength, brittleness, cohesion, compaction, disintegration, extensibility, fracturability, hardness and softness, peel strength, powder and pellet compaction properties, powder flowability, powder cohesiveness, and powder attrition, relaxation, resilience, shear strength and creep, shelf life, slipperiness/smoothness/friction, swelling, syringeability, tensile and film strength, and tablet coating adhesion.
"Using the TA.XTPlus Texture Analyzer, our R&D team could now precisely measure both firmness and adhesiveness. With accurate data now available, we reformulated and refined our product until it was just right. Each product batch is now consistently firm with just the right amount of adhesion meeting our customer expectations perfectly!"
R&D Specialist, Pharmaceutical Company
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