015 grades
Film Coating System
Immediate release tablets
WHO-GMP Compliance Unit · Tahliwal, Distt. Una
Ready-mix coating, formulated for the active in your tablet.
We do not sell one coating and call it universal. Each grade is formulated against a named active or a named problem, and supplied ready to disperse in water or solvent.
- Formulated per active15 actives named
- 10 coating systems22 coded grades
- Parameters publishedBy pan size, per range
- WHO-GMP unitLicence NNZ/23/238
Find the grade for your active
22 grades15 actives indexed
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MNaq series, metallic gold
The problem
Most coating trouble starts before the pan: blends weighed out by hand, parameters guessed on the first batch, and a shade that drifts from one order to the next.
Blending on site
Every polymer, plasticiser and pigment weighed out by hand is a place for batch to batch variation to enter a validated process.
The first batch is a trial
Suppliers in this category do not publish coater settings, so the first run on your equipment becomes the experiment.
A shade that drifts
A repeat order matched by eye rather than against the tablet you approved comes back as a fresh interpretation of it.
How we fix it
One dry blend, published parameters and a shade matched to your tablet.
Ready-mix
Disperse it and spray it.
A ready-mix arrives as a single dry blend. Nothing is weighed or blended at your end, which removes the step where variation usually enters.
- Ready-mix, no in-house blending
- Active specific grades
- Shade matching against your sample
Batch · Running
Your grade, enquiry to supply
- Requirement
- Formulation
- Trial quantity
- Scale-up
- Supply
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Specification
AQ-ZWt10- System
- Film coating
- Process
- Aqueous
- Grade
- Extra white, high opacity
- Application
- Calcium, Azithromycin
24 inch pan
Pan speed
14 to 16 rpm
Charge
3 to 5 kg
Bed
35-40 / 30-35 °C
Inlet
75-80 / 60-65 °C
Specification
Every grade ships with the parameters it runs on.
No supplier in this category publishes coater settings. We do, per pan size, because the first batch on your equipment should not be an experiment.
Open the AQ-ZWt10 data sheetFinishes
Matched to the tablet you send us.
Shade is matched against your reference tablet and confirmed before release, so a repeat order reproduces the finish you approved.
Metallic and pearl coating
In numbers
A catalogue you can measure.
22
Coded grades
10
Coating systems
15
Named actives
7
Documented faults
Coating systems
Choose by the job, not by the code.
Ten system families across 22 coded grades. Each ships with technical documentation and the process parameters it runs on.
- 025 grades
Enteric Coating System
Acid sensitive actives
- 034 grades
Moisture Barrier Coating
Hygroscopic formulations
- 042 grades
Seal and Pre-Coat
Cores under an enteric layer
- 051 grade
Sugar Coating
Tablets and dragees
- 061 grade
Metallic and Pearl Coating
Differentiated products
- 071 grade
Sustained Release System
Once or twice daily products
- 081 grade
Ready-Mix Taste Mask
Paediatric and bitter actives
- 091 grade
Dissolution Profile Material
Cores that fall short on release
- 101 grade
Hygroscopic Adsorbent
Moisture sensitive actives
Application parameters
Starting parameters for your coater.
Aqueous over non-aqueous, per pan size. Build-up and dispersion solids are fixed at trial against your core.
Band
Units
| Parameter | Conventional coater12 inch pan | Auto coater24 inch pan | Conventional coater36 inch pan | Auto coater48 inch pan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pan speed (rpm) | 18 to 20 | 14 to 16 | 8 to 12 | 3 to 5 |
| Tablet charge (kg) | 0.5 to 1 | 3 to 5 | 40 to 50 | 100 to 130 |
| Tablet bed temp (°C) | 35-40 / 30-35 | 35-40 / 30-35 | 35-40 / 30-35 | 35-40 / 30-35 |
| Inlet temp (°C) | 75-80 / 60-65 | 75-80 / 60-65 | 75-80 / 60-65 | 75-80 / 60-65 |
Temperatures given as aqueous / non-aqueous · indicative, confirmed against your core at trial
Industry
Who we supply.
Drugs and Cosmetics Act
Pharmaceutical
Solid dosage manufacturers working under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act in India, and export oriented units supplying regulated markets abroad, who need enteric, moisture barrier, sustained release or standard film coating materials for tablets and capsules.
FSSAI
Nutraceutical
Manufacturers regulated under FSSAI producing health supplements, multivitamins, iron tablets and functional tablets that require film coating, taste masking or moisture protection.
Schedule T
Ayurvedic and herbal
ASU manufacturers working under Schedule T whose dark, mottled or hygroscopic herbal cores require extra white film coats, pigmented seal coats or hygroscopic adsorbents.
R&D and FDD teams
Formulation development
Development teams and R&D units looking for active specific coating grades with documented application parameters and dissolution profiling support.
Toll and third party
Contract manufacturing
Contract and toll manufacturers running coating pans or auto coaters who need a reliable, consistent ready-mix supply with batch to batch shade reproducibility.
Compliance
Every batch is tested before it leaves.
Our plant at Tahliwal runs a quality control laboratory, a segregated sampling area and a quarantined reject store. Those rooms are what a WHO-GMP claim actually describes, and they are photographed rather than asserted.
WHO-GMPLicence NNZ/23/238U.S.-DMF applied
Reading
Notes from the pan.
Insight
Why an enteric coat runs cooler than a film coat
The two bands in our parameter tables are not a preference. They come from what the polymer does at temperature, and running the wrong one costs gastro resistance.
Guide
Coating defects and what causes them
Logo bridging, picking, orange peel and the failures that only show on stability.
Reference
Tablet coating glossary
The vocabulary a coating conversation runs on, defined plainly.
FAQ
Have questions? Find answers.
No. We make the material that goes into the coater, not the coater itself. If you are looking for a coating pan or an auto coater, you need an equipment manufacturer. If you have the machine and need the film that goes onto the tablet, that is us.
Yes. The grades are the same, the regulator is not. Pharmaceutical customers work under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, nutraceutical customers under FSSAI, and ASU manufacturers under Schedule T. Responsibility for the approvals your finished product needs stays with you, and we supply the documentation to support them.
A single blend that you disperse in water or in solvent and spray. Everything the film needs is already in the blend, so your plant is not weighing and mixing individual polymers and pigments before every batch, and the film you qualified is the film you get on the next order.
Yes. Shade is matched against a reference sample you send us rather than against a shade card, and it is confirmed before the batch is released. That way a repeat order reproduces the finish you approved.
Yes. Trial quantities go out with the application parameters for your pan size, so the first batch is not a guess. Trial material is supplied for evaluation, and the parameters are then confirmed against your batch size during scale-up.
Yes. We manufacture at Tahliwal in Himachal Pradesh and supply solid dosage manufacturers in India and overseas. Export orders are quoted against your requirement, with the documentation your importing authority asks for. Tell us the destination and the volume and we will confirm what we can send and on what terms.
Our works are at Plot No. 30, Industrial Area Tahliwal, Tehsil Haroli, Distt. Una 174507, Himachal Pradesh, inside the pharmaceutical belt running through Baddi and Barotiwala. We supply solid dosage manufacturers across India, and we export to manufacturers outside it.
Something went wrong on the pan
Tell us what you are seeing.
Pick the defect off the batch in front of you. Every cause listed here is one we have chased down on a real pan, and the grade beside it is what we changed to.
What you are seeing
The film lifts out of an embossed logo or break line and spans across it, so the debossing goes shallow or disappears.
Usual causes
- 01Film applied beyond the build-up the debossing can carry
- 02A film with high internal stress as it dries
- 03Shallow or steeply cut debossing on the punch
What we would change
An extra white grade reaches full cover at a lower build-up, so there is less film sitting over the logo by the time the core is hidden.
Grades that address it
All 7 defects, in fullReady to specify
Send us your tablet and your target profile.
Share the core composition, the shade reference and the coater you run. We formulate a grade and supply a trial quantity with the application parameters.
From your core to the finish.