Reliability and accuracy are essential for tablet bottling line efficiency. An inaccurate batch count or standard slat fillers that don’t align with your product can result in costly downtime. But with Ascend Packaging Systems’ high-speed bottle filling machines, count on accuracy every time.
An Efficient High-Speed Packaging Line
As an industry leader in pharmaceutical packaging equipment, Ascend Packaging provides solid dose bottle fillers for a wide range of customers and markets. To bridge the gap between compliance goals and efficient operations, our team of experienced engineers designed and manufactured the SureFill 300 Slat Filler, a tablet bottle filling machine that offers high-speed performance and efficiency.
Equipped with a throughput of up to 300 bottles per minute, Ascend’s SureFill 300 offers the highest productivity level for your bottle-filling applications, resulting in the most efficient tablet packaging solution in the industry. Our open design provides total access for inspection, cleaning, and changeover, a benefit that’s unmatched by other slat filler manufacturers.
Other SureFill 300 benefits include:
- Servo-driven for efficiency, flexibility, and control
- Allen Bradley PLC Controls with open architecture
- Feedscrew or ETG options available
Customizing Slat Fillers for Bottling Line Efficiency
Other slat filler manufacturers use one set of slats for a variety of different products. However, slats should generally be designed and manufactured with product specificity in mind.
Ascend utilizes a customized set of slat fillers for each size drug product, offering a dedicated set of slats to ensure bottling line efficiency and accuracy. While cost may be a concern when purchasing slats for each drug product, you might not save money by using one set of slats for numerous products. Purchasing a new set of customized slats can be more cost-effective because when you use a set of slats that are not applicable to the product you’re producing, it ends up costing you more in the long run due to loss of product, time, and labor.
If each bottle costs $1, new slats pay for themselves in as little as one day. That doesn’t include the savings you gain by eliminating the need to hire an operator to drop tablets into bottles to fill empty cavities. And suppose incorrect slats cause the product to come out of the slats unintentionally and fall on the conveyor or facility floor. In that case, the tablet(s) must be discarded, which is a costly loss and increases downtime.
Other Equipment for Your High-Speed Packaging Line
Ascend also offers electronic counter bottling machines to add to your high-speed packaging line, giving you innovative bottle filling equipment and tablet counter machines for your packaging needs.
Designed for bottle filling lines with tablets, capsules, and softgels, add our dual head electronic counting machine to your packaging line for accurate tablet counts while accommodating dusty tablets and translucent soft gels.
Featuring a continuous counting system and high-speed production components, the counting head can count any tablet shape, eliminating the need to change parts between different tablets or capsules. This tablet counter combines industry-leading technology with Ascend’s local engineering and technical support.
Thanks to a proprietary algorithm, even the first bottle at startup is properly filled and not rejected like in other counters. With Ascend, these counters are available in single, dual, quad, or twin head configurations for various tablet and bottle throughput rates. Contact our team today to learn more about our bottle filling equipment.
