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FLEX 500 Tablet Coating System

An Innovative Tablet Coating Machine for Versatility and Flexibility

Thomas Processing offers our FLEX 500 as a manufacturing solution to increase your tablet coating productivity while maintaining the quality of your product. With its innovative exchangeable drum design, FLEX 500 provides the greatest level of versatility and flexibility, resulting in a consistent, reliable tablet coating process.

FLEX 500 has a unique combination of features to reduce downtime for batch-to-batch changeovers, giving the coater more process time to coat tablets. Its enhanced utilization and higher output rate mean increased profit and smoother operations for you. With almost limitless possibilities, FLEX 500 is a preferred choice for processing tablets using film, sugar, functional, and drug layer coatings.

Innovation
  • Production scale coater with exchangeable drums
  • Enhanced coater utilization
  • Removable drum for inspection and cleaning
  • Exchangeable drums for unmatched flexibility
  • Interchangeable mixing baffles
  • Patented Thomas Spray Bar (TSB)
  • Adjustable gun-to-bed angle/distance with options for external positioning
Versatility
  • Superior performance for a range of coating processes
  • Aqueous and solvent coatings
  • Functional, modified release and active coatings
  • Coating with one or more drug layers of coating material
  • Sugar coating
Cleanability
  • Total access design
  • Optimized chamber design for enhanced cleanability
  • Faster and more effective cleaning
  • Reduced cleaning validation expense
  • Range of affordable wash-in-place options
Flexibility
  • Easily configured coating equipment to best suit a process
  • 7 exchangeable drum configurations available
  • Process batch loads from 25% to 100% of drum capacity
  • Dedicated drums to product classes or to contract manufacturing clients
  • Easy-to-use graphic HMI with multiple languages
  • Adapts easily to future needs
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Thomas FLEX 500 Drums

  • 48B Biconical Drum [40-190L]
  • 48C Cylindrical Drum [50-250L]
  • 48XC Cylindrical Drum [80-325L]
  • 60B Biconical Drum [115-460L]
  • 60C Cylindrical Drum [100-500L]
  • 60XB Biconical Drum [130-530L]
  • 60XC Cylindrical Drum [180-700L]
  • 65XC Cylindrical Drum [230-920L]

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Building on the Tradition of Innovation

We build our tablet coating machines, including FLEX 500, on the tradition of innovation. Our team designs and manufactures high-quality tablet coating equipment based on advancements in technology. As the industry identifies new, innovative coating techniques, our engineers implement them into our high-quality systems to give you the best coating machine on the market.

Simple Design With Exchangeable Drums

Thomas continues our tradition of innovation with FLEX 500, an industry-leading, production class tablet coater with exchangeable drums. Its simple design makes routine drum exchange fast and easy for your employees. Our innovative coating advancement eliminates wasted time and increases your overall productivity.

Other advantages of our FLEX 500 include:

  • Dedicating certain drums to specific drug compounds or to individual clients
  • Reducing the risk of cross-contamination
  • Faster cleaning and product changeover for enhanced utilization
  • Reduce facility improvement costs

Start Your Partnership Today

We have a tradition of building innovative machines that lead to long-standing customer partnerships. Contact us today to start your tablet coating journey with us.

About Us

Thomas Processing, formerly known as Thomas Engineering, provides high-quality tablet coating systems and expert solutions to manufacturers across the globe. With more than 60 years of experience, we design our machines based on what works best with modern coating advancements.

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Thomas Processing

200 Airport Rd
Elgin, IL 60123

United States

+1 (847) 358-5800

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