Improving Products, Optimizing Processes #MakingScienceWork

The pharmaceutical industry is a highly technological production environment with a proven history of manufacturing founded on well-established scientific principles. At GEA, based on many years of experience and successfully completed projects, we have developed a wealth of drug production expertise and know-how. And, having worked with many different formulations in numerous countries on countless applications, our understanding and familiarity with the processes and results that can be achieved with our equipment is second to none.

GPSC test center

This level of understanding and competence is applied by the specialist teams in our pharmaceutical test centers around the world to assist our customers in oral solid dosage (OSD) form testing, development and optimization.

Our test facilities offer a full range of both batch and continuous manufacturing technologies to produce pharmaceutical solid dosage forms and represent our continued commitment to and ongoing support for the current and future pharmaceutical industry.

The test centers offer a wealth of opportunity for our clients, including customer demonstrations and trials on our state-of-the-art batch and continuous equipment, training sessions and hands-on lab experience, product development assistance, CQA evaluation support and updates on what can be achieved with GEA equipment. Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can be tested in a GMP-like environment, based on a safety and OEL risk assessment.

Additionally, we provide a unique range of services that are designed to enhance production and expedite time-to-market, such as testing new concepts (equipment/advanced controls), developing and refining new procedures to increase both our understanding and the capabilities of our equipment, as well as equipment and operator training.

GEA’s centers of excellence in Belgium and the US provide access to a full range of test facilities and teams of experts, all of whom work closely with the company’s customers to optimize procedures and evaluate their products, enabling them to achieve their process and production goals.

No other supplier offers such a comprehensive portfolio of tableting technologies, from powder handling to granulating, pelletizing, drying, compression and coating, including ConsiGma®, the first ever continuous high shear granulation, drying and tableting system, which is set to revolutionize OSD processing.

Your needs are critical and individual. Our worldwide test centers have been created to meet those needs. From solid dosage applications in the Wommelgem GPSC and US PTC, to the largest and most advanced spray drying facility in the world in Copenhagen, Denmark, and separation technologies in Oelde, Germany, we can help you to build quality into your processes, adjust key parameters to drive your critical quality attributes to the required target levels and bring new products to market in a quick and efficient way.

To discover more or organize a test, demonstration or training session, contact our dedicated, passionate and experienced team (infoGPSC@gea.com). With a long history of solid dosage form expertise, including hundreds of formulations, everyone at the GPSC and PTC is committed to going the extra mile to meet customer expectations. Wherever you are in the world, whatever your application, we’ll take you further, faster.

Batch Processing Capabilities

Batch Processing Capabilities

From powder to coated tablet and from R&D to full-scale manufacturing, no other supplier offers such a wide range of batch technologies for oral solid dosage from production.

Continuous Processing Capabilities

Continuous Processing Capabilities

At GEA, we believe that continuous processing improves the quality of pharmaceutical end products by focusing on quality during the whole product lifecycle - not just "tested in" quality - and by understanding the capability...

Tablet Compression

Tablet Compression

The innovation that GEA has developed include a unique technology that independently and simultaneously measures and controls both tablet weight and hardness, and a weight control system that provides increased sensitivity at...

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Other Test Locations

Apart from our main test facilities in Wommelgem, Halle and Columbia, MD, GEA has collaborations with a number of universities and private research institutes to offer trial opportunities in other regions worldwide.

Training - Process Support

Training & Process Support

GEA recognizes the important role that training plays in the proper use of its equipment. Whether the need is theory, general operational instruction or specific process-related guidance, GEA is focused on helping you learn to...

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