A leading global supplier of processing and packaging equipment, predominantly for the pharmaceutical industry, Romaco Group at the upcoming Achema 2015 in Frankfurt will show end-to-end solutions for granulation and coating, tableting and primary and secondary packaging.

Romaco will additionally unveil a blister line with an integrated anti-counterfeiting system which enables the primary packaging to be unequivocally identified. A new aseptic microdosing machine with one hundred percent weight control and the next generation of Romaco’s Remote Assist will also be among the technological highlights.

With its acquisition of Innojet Herbert Hüttlin in February 2015, the Romaco Group became the first supplier in the world to manage the entire process chain for manufacturing and packing pharmaceutical solids. Romaco Innojet’s high-efficiency solutions for gentle granulation and coating processes are based on the patented air flow bed technology. Originally developed by Dr. h.c. Herbert Hüttlin, this method particularly impresses with its linear scale-up of all process parameters and allows up to 75 per cent shorter processing times compared to conventional technologies. The optimised process control results from the cylindrical design featuring five patented functional components: Orbiter, Vulcano, Rotojet, Lineajet and Sepajet.

The Romaco Innojet exhibit will include the Varioscale VS 40 system module – the world’s first coating system for totally variable batch sizes, which represents the ideal choice for solid particles such as tablets of any size and shape as well as soft or hard gelatine capsules.

Following the market launch of the Kilian KTP 420X single-sided rotary press at Interpack 2014, Romaco Kilian’s double-sided version – the Kilian KTP 720X – will make its debut this year at the European Achema trade show. This high speed press, designed for manufacturing mono and bi-layer formats, compresses up to 1,020,000 tablets an hour. Both presses in the KTP X series are eminently suited for processing temperature sensitive products like ibuprofen or metformin. Optimal cleanability in mono mode and rapid batch changes were key design priorities.

The Macofar MicroMaxX 18 microdosing machine will introduce Romaco’s brand new product family, which continues the manufacturer’s decades-long tradition of innovative solutions for aseptic microdosing. The Macofar MicroMaxX 18 provides exceptionally high flexibility. It is equally suitable for processing pharmaceutical powders and sterile liquids and meets all the requirements for downstream freeze-drying. The two dosing discs allow multiple dosing into the same vial, so that the product can be filled in two process steps.

The Romaco Group will take advantage of Achema to introduce its Noack 960 blister solution with integrated anti-counterfeiting system for pharmaceuticals. The new technology, developed in an exclusive partnership with NANO 4 U, meets all the requirements of the EU’s Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU. A unique stamped hologram, which identifies each blister unequivocally, provides proof of originality.

Format and product changes are both quick and easy with Romaco Siebler’s integrated strip packaging machine. The cut strip packs are transferred by the FlexTrans FT 1-600 transfer station to the Romaco Promatic P 91 intermittent motion cartoner. The flexible-format transfer module is controlled by three FlexPicker robots, which were developed to handle a maximum of 600 strips per minute.