CI Electronics launches new pill weighers

The range includes floor-standing units with hoppers for production and clinical trials batches as well as a bench top model suitable for smaller R&D and formulation batches.

The UK firm said that the range is specifically designed for use in GMP environments, and can sort most standard shapes and sizes of tablets and capsules - without the need for changing parts - to an accuracy within 1mg.

The Sade SP sorters are fitted with a new weigh head that CI Electronics claims improves weighing performance. The design of the new feed and sort mechanisms provides precision handling of the tablets/capsules on and off the weigh pan and assures consistent sorting accuracy in continuous operation, it adds.

Meanwhile, AC Compacting​ has also started distributing one of CI Electronics' benchtop sample check weighers, the QM-4BM, used to measure the individual weights of sample tablets and capsules taken from a tablet press or filling line.

The unit can check weights up to 2.5g per individual tablet or capsule, at a rate of 30 units per minute, and is suitable for use in-booth, sited centrally in the manufacturing area or the quality control laboratory, according to CI Electronics​.

To operate the system, the user places the doses into the vibratory bowl feeder and then sets the machine running. The QM-4BM automatically weighs each one, calculates the statistical information and produces a printout that eliminates the need for the operator to manually record the data. The printout also records date, time and batch numbers.