The product Tablettose® is manufactured by a continous spray agglomeration process, where water is used as the binder and is sprayed onto fluidized fine milled lactose particles, creating liquid bridges to form agglomerated lactose.
Tablettose®, especially designed for Direct-Compression, combines the flowability of coarse lactose crystals and the good compressibility of fine milled lactose.
Tablettose® 70 is manufactured using identical starting material as Tablettose® 80; however, the particle size distribution is narrower. The content of fines smaller than 63 µm is reduced significantly and there are no particles larger than 500 µm, making Tablettose® 70 the excipient of choice for narrow particle size distribution and dust free production.
Particle size distribution
[Mechanical sieve shaker]
<63 µm: NMT 6%
<200 µm: 30-70%
<500 µm: NLT 98%
Typical Values
Bulk Density [g/l]: 530
Tapped Density [g/l] : 640
Hausner factor: 1.21
Carrs index: 17.19 %
