Critical review on the role of excipient properties in pharmaceutical powder-to-tablet continuous manufacturing

13 Aug 2024 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Sara Fathollahi, Pauline H. M. Janssen, Bastiaan H. J. Dickhoff, Henderik W. Frijlink

The pharmaceutical industry is gradually changing batch-wise manufacturing processes to continuous manufacturing processes, due to the advantages it has to offer. The final product quality and process efficiency of continuous manufacturing processes is among others impacted by the properties of...

Process intensification of pharmaceutical powder blending at commercial throughputs by utilizing semi-continuous mini-blending

13 Aug 2024 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Maarten Jaspers, Florian Tegel, Timo P. Roelofs, Fabian Starsich, Yunfei Li Song, Bernhard Meir, Richard Elkes, Bastiaan H.J. Dickhoff

Process intensification involves the miniaturization of equipment while retaining process throughput and performance. The pharmaceutical industry can benefit from this approach especially during drug product development, where the availability of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) is often...

The Use of a Closed Feed Frame for the Development of Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Calibration Model to Determine Drug Concentration

23 Jul 2024 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Movilla-Meza, Nathaly A., Sierra-Vega, Nobel O., Alvarado-Hernández, Bárbara B., Méndez, Rafael, Romañach, Rodolfo J.

Purpose: This study evaluates the use of the closed feed frame as a material sparing approach to develop near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic calibration models for monitoring blend uniformity. The effect of shear induced by recirculation on NIR spectra was also studied. Methods: Calibration models...

Cleaning of direct compression continuous manufacturing equipment through displacement of API residues by excipients

23 Jul 2024 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Patel, Dhavalkumar S, Méndez, Rafael, Romañach, Rodolfo J

This feasibility study evaluates a cleaning process designed to avoid the use of detergents and reduce operator exposure to the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The continuous manufacturing equipment was cleaned using excipients to displace ibuprofen residues from the system. The cleaning...

Process analytics for the new era of continuous RNA manufacturing

23 Jul 2024 | Website | Contributor(s): Botonjic-Sehic, Edita

In this article, Edita Botonjic-Sehic, Head of Process Analytics and Data Science at ReciBioPharm, examines the need for a digitally controlled continuous manufacturing process to correct the shortcomings of the current standard of batch processing. She highlights the critical role in-line...

Videometric mass flow control: A new method for real-time measurement and feedback control of powder micro-feeding based on image analysis

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Madarasz, L, Kote, AGyurkes, M, Farkas, A, Hambalko, B, Pataki, H, Fulop, G, Marosi, G, Lengyel, L, Casian, T, Csorba, K, Nagy, ZK

The present paper reports the first monitoring and control of ultra-low dose powder feeding using a camera image-based mass flow measurement system. Caffeine was fed via a single-screw microfeeder as a model active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). The mass, mass flow and sizes of the particles...

Using a material property library to find surrogate materials for pharmaceutical process development

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Escotet-Espinoza, MS, Moghtadernejad, SScicolone, J, Wang, YF, Pereira, G, Schafer, E, Vigh, T, Klingeleers, D, Ierapetritou, M, Muzzio, FJ

Material properties are known to have a significant impact on pharmaceutical manufacturing performance, particularly for solid product processes. Evaluating the performance of a specific material, for example an active pharmaceutical ingredient or excipient, is critical during development stages...

Using residence time distribution in pharmaceutical solid dose manufacturing–A critical review

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Bhalode, Pooja, Tian, Huayu Gupta, Shashwat Razavi, Sonia M Roman-Ospino, Andres Talebian, Shahrzad Singh, Ravendra Scicolone, James V Muzzio, Fernando J, Ierapetritou, Marianthi

While continuous manufacturing (CM) of pharmaceutical solid-based drug products has been shown to be advantageous for improving the product quality and process efficiency in alignment with FDA’s support of the quality-by-design paradigm (Lee, 2015; Ierapetritou et al., 2016; Plumb, 2005; Schaber,...

Using Residence Time Distributions (RTDs) to Address the Traceability of Raw Materials in Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Engisch, William, Muzzio, Fernando

Continuous processing in pharmaceutical manufacturing is a relatively new approach that has generated significant attention. While it has been used for decades in other industries, showing significant advantages, the pharmaceutical industry has been slow in its adoption of continuous processing,...

Using online mass spectrometry to predict the end point during drying of pharmaceutical products

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Dodda, Aditya G., Saranteas, Kostas, Henson, Michael A.

Drying of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is an energy-intensive process that is often a manufacturing bottleneck due to the relatively long processing times. A key objective is the ability to determine the drying end point, the time at which all solvent has been evaporated from the...

Using residence time distribution in pharmaceutical solid dose manufacturing–A critical review

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Bhalode, Pooja, Tian, Huayu Gupta, Shashwat Razavi, Sonia M Roman-Ospino, Andres Talebian, Shahrzad Singh, Ravendra Scicolone, James V Muzzio, Fernando J, Ierapetritou, Marianthi

While continuous manufacturing (CM) of pharmaceutical solid-based drug products has been shown to be advantageous for improving the product quality and process efficiency in alignment with FDA’s support of the quality-by-design paradigm (Lee, 2015; Ierapetritou et al., 2016; Plumb, 2005; Schaber,...

Using residence time distribution in pharmaceutical solid dose manufacturing–A critical review

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Bhalode, Pooja, Tian, Huayu Gupta, Shashwat Razavi, Sonia M Roman-Ospino, Andres Talebian, Shahrzad Singh, Ravendra Scicolone, James V Muzzio, Fernando J, Ierapetritou, Marianthi

While continuous manufacturing (CM) of pharmaceutical solid-based drug products has been shown to be advantageous for improving the product quality and process efficiency in alignment with FDA’s support of the quality-by-design paradigm (Lee, 2015; Ierapetritou et al., 2016; Plumb, 2005; Schaber,...

Understanding API Static Drying with Hot Gas Flow: Design and Test of a Drying Rig Prototype and Drying Modeling Development

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Ottoboni, S, Coleman, SJSteven, C, Siddique, M, Fraissinet, M, Joannes, M, Laux, A, Barton, A, Firth, P, Price, CJ, Mulheran, PA

Developing a continuous isolation process to produce a pure, dry, free-flowing active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is the final barrier to the implementation of continuous end-to-end pharmaceutical manufacturing. Recent work has led to the development of continuous filtration and washing...

Twin-screw melt granulation: Current progress and challenges

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Kittikunakorn, Nada, Liu, Tongzhou, Zhang, Feng

Twin-screw melt granulation (TSMG) is a new alternative method for granulation that offers several advantages over wet and dry granulation methods. TSMG has rapidly gained interest over recent years in the pharmaceutical industry. Since it is an inherently continuous process with controlled...

Twin screw granulation - review of current progress

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Thompson, M. R.

Twin screw granulation (TSG) is a new process of interest to the pharmaceutical community that can continuously wet granulate powders, doing so at lower liquid concentrations and with better product consistency than found by a high shear batch mixer. A considerable body of Research Article has...

Thin-Film Evaporator Model for Continuous Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Lee, BW, Yin, KHSplaine, K, Roesch, B

Thin-film evaporator (TFE) is a popular continuous distillation/evaporation technology for pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries and has several equipment and process configurations that make fundamental modeling approaches very challenging. Specifically, moving wipers and lack of fluid...

Towards 4th industrial revolution efficient and sustainable continuous flow manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Sagandira, CR, Nqeketo, SMhlana, K, Sonti, T, Gaqa, S, Watts, P

Continuous flow chemistry has opened a new paradigm in both the laboratory and pharmaceutical industry. This review details the recently reported literature on continuous multistep telescoped synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), inline flow downstream processing, in-process...

Towards a Greener Pharmacy by More Eco Design

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Baron, M

This review proposes an overview of the main trends explored by the pharmaceutical industry in order to develop a greener and smarter pharmacy minimizing any negative impact to the environment, and using more sustainable processes and drugs. If many drugs have their origin in nature, many active...

The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) using continuous flow chemistry

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Baumann, M, Baxendale, IR

The implementation of continuous flow processing as a key enabling technology has transformed the way we conduct chemistry and has expanded our synthetic capabilities. As a result many new preparative routes have been designed towards commercially relevant drug compounds achieving more efficient...

The Use of PAT and Off-line Methods for Monitoring of Roller Compacted Ribbon and Granule Properties with a View to Continuous Processing

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): McAuliffe M.A.P., Omahony G.E., Blackshields C.A., Collins J.A., Egan D.P., Kiernan L., Oneill E., Lenihan S., Walker G.M., Crean A.M.

Real-time process monitoring using process analytical technology (PAT) tools can augment process understanding, enable improved process control, and hence facilitate the production of high-quality pharmaceutical products. While beneficial for batch processes, the availability of PAT tools to...

The scope of PAT in real-time advanced control of tablet quality

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Singh, Ravendra, Ierapetritou, Marianthi, Ramachandran, Rohit

Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing together with process analytical technology (PAT) provides a suitable platform for automatic feed-forward/feed-back (FF/FB) control of the end product quality as desired by quality by design (QbD)-based efficient manufacturing. The precise control of the...

The Use of Near-Infrared and Microwave Resonance Sensing to Monitor a Continuous Roller Compaction Process

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Austin, John, Gupta, Anshu, Mcdonnell, Ryan, Reklaitis, Gintaras V., Harris, Michael T

Roller compaction is commonly used in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries to increase and narrow the size distribution of a particulate material, making it easier to process. Both the moisture content of the material and the density of the roller compacted ribbon affect the uniformity...

The reality of in-line tablet coating

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Cahyadi, Christine, Chan, Lai Wah, Heng, Paul Wan Sia

The possibility of continuous processing in pharmaceutical tablet manufacturing is hampered by the viscoelastic recovery of tablets post-compaction. Compacted tablets are typically aged before coating to allow complete viscoelastic recovery so as to avoid subsequent coating defects. There has...

The Future of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Sciences

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Rantanen, Jukka, Khinast Johannes

The entire pharmaceutical sector is in an urgent need of both innovative technological solutions and fundamental scientific work, enabling the production of highly engineered drug products. Commercial-scale manufacturing of complex drug delivery systems (DDSs) using the existing technologies is...

Technoeconomic Optimization of Continuous Crystallization for Three Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients: Cyclosporine, Paracetamol, and Aliskiren

09 Jun 2023 | Peer-reviewed journal | Contributor(s): Diab, S, Gerogiorgis, DI

Mixed suspension, mixed product removal (MSMPR) crystallizers are widely implemented for the continuous crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), allowing enhanced efficiency, flexibility, and product quality compared to currently dominant batch crystallizer designs....