OPTIMAGS plans and puts into operation complete facilities. We deliver complete solutions for the pharmaceutical patch and oral strip production industry: the facilities, the machines and the single components. Our great knowledge and experience in high-speed, ultra-precise patch production, modular coating machine with our special knife coater results in several different facilities for production of transdermal patches all over the world The first OPTIMAGS TDS Coating Plant for a leading German pharmaceutical company was installed in 1995. Several European, Asian and American pharmaceutical companies have since decided on our high-speed, ultra-precise patch- and oral strip production, modular coating machine with our special knife coater. OPTIMAGS COMPLETE PATCH PRODUCTION FACILITIES OPTIMAGS supplies complete production-facilities for patches. Facilities are available in various sizes. They are all custom tailored, but have in common: · All systems designed and built acc. to European GMP and safety standards · No heavy static necessary, the complete facility may be erected in a standard office building · PC-controlled depots for raw materials and intermediate or finished products · PC-controlled medical and adhesive mixing vessels, or complete stations · OPTIMAGS TDS coating machine · PLC-controlled punch and packaging machine · Quality control laboratory The facilities may be for: · First stage laboratory production (output up to 3 million patches p.a.or 10 million oral strips p.a) · Small scale, semi automatic production (output up to 50 million patches p.a.or 200 million oral strips p.a) · Large scale, fully automatic units (output up to 400 million patches p.a. or 1600 million oral strips p.a) A demonstration model can be shown in our locations of the company OPTIMAGS TDS MODULAR COATING MACHINES The machines consist of following modules: · PC-controlled, fibre optically adjusted coating knife he "heart and the brain" of the machine) · Unwinder and rewinder station · Dryer, modularly arranged with up to eight zones OPTIMAGS KNIFE COATER TECHNOLOGY The OPTIMAGS Coater is an intelligent combination of a cast and a die coater. Its construction allows for extreme accuracy across and along the coat, typically better than 1% at 100g/m² for an adhesive coat. In addition to this, the following advantages are also noteworthy: · Direct and sensitive coating adjustment via PC and fibre optic control of the wet thickness immediately after the coating head · Additional dry thickness profiling sensor as master control at the dryer exit · Small size, simple construction and low weight enable fast and easy replacement of coater in case of product changes · Only the coating knife is in contact with the coating solution · Fully automatic and recipe controlled production possible OPTIMAGS CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICES On request, OPTIMAGS can assist in the acquisition of the necessary production permits, the validation process of the production and the necessary funding and financing services.