The FLEX 05 is more than just an R&D tablet coater: it’s an innovative, highly functional film coating platform where high weight gain, drug layers, and modified release coatings are essential.
The FLEX 05 is more than just an R&D tablet coater: it’s an innovative, highly functional film coating platform where high weight gain, drug layers, and modified release coatings are essential.
Thomas Processing’s FLEX 05 is a benchtop, high-performance tablet coating system with many uses. It’s equipped with divider plates for small batch sizes, making it the perfect machine for research and development. With impressive drum capacity capabilities ranging from as little as 100 milliliters to as much as 5 liters of tablets per drum, your batch size is up to you with the FLEX 05.
Built on our tradition of innovation, Thomas’s FLEX 05 is one of the only benchtop coating machines available in the industry with computer-based controls for data acquisition. It also provides a periodic data report to give you a better understanding of your coating machine throughput.
| FLEX 05 | |
| Overall dimensions | 24” x 36” x 30” high | [610 mm x 815 mm x 760 mm] |
| Drum volume | Up to 5 liters; ½ liter with divider plate |
| Drum diameter | 12 in. | [305 mm] |
| Drum speed | 5 – 40 RPM |
| Air flow and temperature | 20 – 100 CFM (45°C maximum bed temp) | [35 – 170 m3/h] |
| Spray nozzle | Schlick™ 970 ABC |
| Solution delivery | Watson-Marlow peristaltic pump |
| Atomizing/Pattern air | 20 – 45 psi at 12 SCFM | [1.4 – 3.0 bar at 20 m3/h] |
| Controls | PLC and touch panel HMI |
| Electrical | 8 kW @ Full Load |
| Compressed air supply | 50 psi | [3.3 bar] |
| Weight | 280 lbs. | [130 kg] |