Surepharm Services Ltd.
Surepharm offers a complete pharmaceutical manufacturing and assembly service for solid dose medicinal and healthcare products. Surepharms business has grown steadily since its founding in 1990 through the establishment of long term customer relationships forged on technical expertise, quality, reliability, and efficiency. They are licensed by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), permitting them to provide a full, in-house manufacturing and assembly service, all under the same roof.
PTK-GB Ltd. engineers have been supporting Surpharm for over 10 years since they first purchased their first PTK PR2000 Fully Automated High-Speed Tablet Press in November 2008. From installation, the machines had made an instant impact on Surepharm’s production capacity in line with their growing order book.
Key Points:
PTK’s HMI software is an added benefit by allowing Surepharm to learn more about their products compression characteristics which will also lead to refinement of downstream processes giving greater efficiencies and in-house knowledge. Surepharm’s Production Manager commented,
“We have put 5 of our more challenging products on the PTK press to date, the reduced batch times of typically 50% have meant more output, week on week we break records for weekly output. The machine is incredibly operator friendly and our team are keen to keep trying new products and reach previously unimaginable outputs. ”
Difficult Product:
Ibruprofen 400mg Caplet. - The collaboration of PTK and Tooling suppliers have solved all compression issues for Surepharm’s Ibuprofen products, widely accepted as a difficult product to manufacture requiring expert handling.
Previous Experience
Machine = Manesty Express
Tooling type =EU D Type
Number of Stations = 20.
Batch running Time = 24 hours.
Batch to batch Changeover time = 3 hours.
Output Speed = 20,833 tablets per hour.
Output per station = 1,041 tablets per hour.
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Experience with PTK Press
Machine = PTK PR2000
Tooling type =EU D Type
Number of Stations = 29.
Batch running Time = 7 hours.
Batch to batch Changeover time = 0.5 hours.
Output Speed = 69,600 tablets per hour.
Output per station = 2,400 tablets per hour.
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