Instrumentation
Specialist instruments for forces, pressures and temperatures
Huxley Bertram Tablet Compaction Simulators are primarily used in the pharmaceutical industry. However, they are also used to compact powders in the metals, nuclear, ceramics, batteries, and food industries.
Compaction simulators are high-force, extremely dynamic, instrumented presses that are crucial in the complex world of pharmaceutical tableting (also known as Oral Solid Dose, OSD). They enable transformation in R&D, formulation, scale-up, and production processes. Their primary purpose is to precisely replicate the motions and dynamic response of a high-speed production rotary tablet press. This is carried out using an instrumented single-punch-and-die set, one tablet at a time. This provides unprecedented insight into what is happening during tablet compaction, allowing rapid iteration of the compaction process and tablet design with precisely controlled variation to perfect the tablet formulation.
The Range
HB100 High Speed Tablet Compaction Simulator
Huxley Bertram’s HB100 Compaction simulator is widely regarded as the highest-performance machine available. The HB100 benefits from 20+ years of innovation and continuous development. Clients include many leading international pharmaceutical companies. HB100 simulators are an integral part of their R&D and tablet formulation processes.
HB50 Tablet Compaction Simulator
The Huxley Bertram HB50 offers much of the performance and accuracy of the HB100 in a more compact package. Facilitating rapid R&D and formulation development in a compact package.
HB30 Tablet Compaction Simulator
The HB30 is designed to power through the Quality by Design (QbD) process with speed and accuracy. Providing the power and acceleration to accurately replicate the dramatic accelerations of the production press that only a servo-hydraulic compaction simulator can achieve.
Explore the Range
We provide an exceptional range of tooling and accessories, giving you the freedom to explore any aspect of the powder you can envisage. We even offer customer tooling design, build, and integration into our machines to challenge the boundaries of current science.
Test Options
Split dies, Hiestand, multi-layer, capsule filling and more
Die Filling
Feeder options and fill control methods
Software
Specialist instruments for forces, pressures and temperatures
Services and Support
Specialist instruments for forces, pressures and temperatures
Resources
Specialist instruments for forces, pressures and temperatures
Industries We Serve
Pharmaceutical
Leading pharma companies use our simulators for R&D, formulation and Quality by Design (QbD) — characterising materials and de-risking scale-up.
Nuclear
Huxley Bertram designs and delivers bespoke equipment for the nuclear sector, supporting nuclear R&D, with strong expertise in compaction and powder processing systems.
New Application Development
Huxley Bertram also specialises in developing new applications to support your research in powder compaction.
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