Solid Dose Division
Bottling
Aphena offers bottling solutions for solid-dose products: tablets, capsules, caplets, soft gels and gel caps. Our turnkey services include purchasing all of the components, including a broad selection of bottle sizes and resins, cotton or rayon fillers and desiccants, outserts/inserts, CRC or dispenser caps with induction seals, and digital or screen-printed labels with serialization, if required. A variety of configurations is available, and Aphena has the ability to run batches from 100 to 10 million bottles efficiently.
Our state-of–the-art facilities contain several innovations, including:
- Controlled-environment clean rooms
- Custom batch record scanning programs for track and trace
- In-line check weighers
- In-line vision systems on labels and bar codes
- High-speed, fully-automated bottle filling lines
- Semi-automated bottling lines to meet short-run production needs
- State-of-the-art, custom-built production software to maximize faster turnaround times
- Computerized monitoring of environmental controls
- Separate and monitored HEPA filtration systems
- Pill-dispensing identification software
- Highly accurate tablet counting (slat and electronic channel counters)
- Automatic cotton insertion, capping with torque control
- Induction sealing, neck or full sleeve shrink banding
- Precision labeling with automatic in-line printing of lot number and expiration date
- Off-line, in-house printing capabilities – serialization and 2D bar codes
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