Built for today’s needs, adaptable for tomorrow’s
F48 190 L Drum diameter 48"
Thomas Flex 500® Drums
Flex 500 Tablet Coater Description
Thomas Engineering offers the Flex 500® as a manufacturing solution to increase your tablet coating productivity while maintaining the quality of your products. The Flex 500 provides the greatest level of versatility and flexibility with its innovative exchangeable drum design. The results it provides are consistent, and its process is reliable. The Flex 500® has a unique combination of features to help reduce downtime for batch-to-batch changeovers that gives the coater more process time to coat tablets.
This enhanced utilization and higher output rate mean increased profit and smoother operations for our clients. With almost limitless possibilities, the Flex 500® has become one of the preferred choices for processing tablets using film, sugar, functional, and drug layer coatings. Thomas designed this model to be the ultimate in versatility. Just like our business, the Flex 500® was built for today’s needs and remains adaptable for tomorrow’s.
Innovation
- Production scale coater with exchangeable drums
- Enhanced coater utilization
- Removable drum for inspection and cleaning
- Exchangeable drums for unmatched flexibility
- Interchangeable mixing baffles
- Patented Thomas Spray Bar®
- Adjustable gun-to-bed angle/distance with options for external positioning
Versatility
Cleanability
Flexibility
A Tablet Coating System Engineered for Your Needs
We are the originator of the fully perforated side-vented drum. Today, Thomas continues our legacy of imaginative and practical coater design with the Flex 500®. This model is the only production class tablet coater with exchangeable drums. The compelling simplicity of the design makes routine drum exchange fast and easy for your employees. This straightforward advancement will eliminate wasted time and increase your overall productivity. You can imagine all of the possibilities for the flexibility that this innovation will provide. You can choose a drum configuration and mixing baffles that best fit the requirements of your process. Other advantages include:
- Dedicating certain drums to specific drug compounds or to individual clients
- Reducing the risk of cross-contamination
- Faster cleaning and product changeover for enhanced utilization
- Reduce facility improvement costs
Thanks to these drum adaptability, you will only have to build and staff one coating suite instead of two or more suites for ordinary tablet coaters.
Tablet Coating Machines Optimized for Your Operations
As tablet coating machine manufacturers, Thomas has had 5 decades to learn and create everything there is to know about the industry. We understand the tools you need and operations we can expect to be conducted. The Flex 500® offers the Thomas Spray Bar®, which has a streamlined sanitary design. This tool makes film coating a more precise process by eliminating air and solution lines over the spray zone.
It comes standard with Schlick ABC™ anti-bearding spray nozzles. We have also designed it with an independent control of pattern and atomizing air. It is constructed of lightweight section pieces for easy handling and assembly. The tool-less gun inserts and bar assemble for fast, straightforward service.
A Tablet Coater That Can Meet Your Demands
The Accela-Cota® Flex 500 is a versatile coating platform that accommodates a wide range of coating applications. Some processes may use just a single spray solution; more complex matrices may require a series of cycles or stages. There are often widely varied fluid properties that are used to develop functional layers—or layers containing active drugs.
Although there can be many processes, each with its own unique variables, they all have one demand in common. They need to be implemented on a tablet coater that is efficient, highly available, easy to clean, and capable of delivering consistently excellent product quality. That coater is the Flex 500®.
To learn more about the Flex 500® and our other products, contact Thomas Engineering today.
