Tablet Manufacturing
Tablet Manufacturing
How does your tablet manufacturing process work?
Tablets offer an easy way for your customers to quickly consume your formulation. And they come in many varieties, depending on what your customers need:
- Chewable
- Fast-Melt
- Sublingual
- Effervescent
- Time-Release
- Bi-Layer
- Enteric Coated
- Scored Tablets
- and others…
They also vary in size, shape, and coating, meaning that your tablet can be highly customized to fit your customers’ needs.
As your tablet manufacturer we create all products through a multi-stage process. It begins by making sure that each tablet has the right dosage needed. And sometimes tablets need to be coated to ensure proper delivery of the nutrients. Not only that, but most tablet formulations need a free-flowing additive to help it move easily from the hopper to the die cavity of the tablet press. This is something you will discuss with your account excutive to determine the best ingredients and manufacturing methods for your products.
The three most common methods for tablet manufacturing are direct compression, dry granulation, and wet granulation. It begins with weighing, milling, and mixing. However, depending on the type of tablet method being used, granulation, drying, compaction, and/or coating will follow before packaging.
Benefits of Manufacturing Tablets
Tablets are highly customizable. As a result, they have more versatility than some of the other delivery options out there. While you can fully customize their appearance, you can also choose how you’d like them to disperse your formulation.
They can dissolve in the mouth, in the stomach, or in the intestines, meaning that your supplement will function in a way that yields the best results. And as one of the most common delivery methods, they’re also affordable to manufacture.
Here are more benefits that tablets provide:
- Accurate dosing
- Can have delayed absorption for optimal delivery because of coating
- Compressibility makes it easier to deliver more formulation
- Easier to split doses due to scoring
- Easy to identify due to differences in color, size, and shape
- And many more
There are some downsides to tablets you should be aware of as well:
- Can be hard to swallow
- Slower absorption into the bloodstream than capsules
- Some ingredients cannot be pressed into tablet form
- May have an unpleasant taste
- May need to use a large number of excipients and binders
- May require coating to reduce unpleasant taste/protect quality
- Coating and type can increase price
