Freeman Technology, in partnership with Gericke and Glatt Air Techniques, is sponsoring a three-day course presented by mixing consultants on the blending and flow of pharmaceutical powders.
The course will be held in the US and in Europe, beginning in Pearl River, New York, on 27-29 October and then at Graz University of Technology in Austria on 9-11 December 2009.
Each will feature presentations given by academic experts from Rutgers University and by industry specialists, including Tim Freeman, director of operations for Freeman Technology.
Freeman will join Prof Fernando Muzzio of Rutgers University and pharmaceutical manufacturing specialists from Glatt Air Techniques and Gericke.
Designed for those working in product and process design, manufacturing, scale-up, technology transfer and control, the course programme begins with an introduction from the regulatory perspective.
It then moves through the topics of: the mixing of free-flowing materials; automation for powder blending; the mixing of cohesive materials; lubrication; and continuous mixing techniques and process design.
The final day will take a further look into regulatory issues before moving on to powder flow measurements in relation to pharmaceutical development and manufacturing.
Freeman's FT4 powder tester is capable of rapidly measuring shear, bulk and dynamic properties using small amounts of sample material and a range of methodologies.
Knowledge of why some formulations are 'easy' to manufacture while others are not is the basis of effective processing, enabling optimum formulation development within plant performance specifications.
