15th PBP World Meeting • 23-26 March 2026

IMA Active is pleased to attend the 15^th PBP World Meeting, taking place in Prague (Czech Republic) on March 23-26, 2026.

This conference has gained an ever increasing impact among the pharmaceutical scientists and it has become a well-established major meeting attracting scientists from all over the world. The entire spectrum of topics ranging from engineering aspects of the manufacturing process, the portfolio of commercially available excipients enabling formulation of a large variety of medicinal products, the underlying physico-chemical principles, cutting-edge characterization techniques as well as potential pitfalls and hurdles to be overcome during product development, manufacturing and characterisation will be addressed.

During the entire conference, the accompanying exhibition ResearchPharm® provides a cross-disciplinary platform for pharmaceutical scientists working in all fields of drug development in industry, academia and regulatory bodies. This exhibition is steadily growing and offers the possibility to present and learn about the newest trends and products in the area of pharmaceutical ingredients, developing and processing equipment, analytical technologies, medicinal products, medical devices and contract manufacturing.

On Thursday, March 26, during the poster session Pharmaceutical manufacturing and engineering, Samuele Capomasi, Process Technologist at IMA Active Competence Center, will present the paper titled “Enhancing Die Filling Performance with Poorly Flowable Powders: a Process-Centric Approach”.

The poster focuses on investigating practical process improvements designed to address the challenges associated with powders exhibiting poor flow properties. By examining real formulation scenarios characterised by low flowability, process optimization in die feeding strategies were explored to enhance process robustness and product quality. Specifically, through a combination of optimized process settings, accurate mechanical design choices and the introduction of innovative solutions such as the Dynamicam (an IMA patent pending die loading concept), tableting of a fair flowable blend enabled more consistent die filling and enhanced overall compression performance.

On Thursday, March 26, during the poster session Pharmaceutical manufacturing and engineering, Caterina Funaro, Competence Center Manager at IMA Active, will present the paper titled “High- shear mixing of dry powders for inhalation: the influence of magnesium stearate in the pre-blending”.

This study aimed to investigate the influence of the ingredient addition sequence on the performance of ternary blends comprising API, carriers, and additives. Specifically, two different blending procedures (Process A and Process B) were evaluated, focusing on their impact on blend uniformity (BU%) and blend uniformity relative standard deviation (BU RSD%) in the final formulations.

Moreover, you have the opportunity to meet IMA Active experts at booth 59 to discuss the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing!

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