Packaging & Processing Machinery Supplier Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Phil Black - PII Editor 22/02/2017

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Market’s Most Accurate Weight Control System, World’s Fastest Checkweigher, and First Foray into Tablet Press Sector Among Recent Company Highlights

MG America, the U.S. subsidiary of MG2 of Bologna, Italy, is celebrating its 30th anniversary in its Fairfield, New Jersey headquarters. Over three decades, the company has built a reputation for providing a broad range of versatile packaging and processing machinery, including capsule fillers, tablet presses, material handling, aseptic equipment, primary & secondary packaging equipment, checkweighing/weight control systems, tablet & capsule inspection, and line integration solutions.

“MG America is proud to commemorate 30 years of dedicated service to the pharmaceutical, nutritional, and medical device sectors,” said Fabio Trippodo, President of MG America. “We remain 100% committed to providing customer-driven and customer-focused technical sales and service teams, whose primary focus is to ensure the success of companies utilising our exemplary European-crafted equipment.”

MG America’s anniversary comes amid a string of recent milestones, including:

Entry into North American Tablet Press Marketplace

Late last year, MG America became a distributor in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico for a line of tablet presses from Germany-based machinery manufacturer kg-pharma. The three-machine series is suitable for both R&D and pilot scale production, with the most high-production press, the Futorque X-1, capable of producing up to 108,000 tablets/hr.

Each tablet press features automatic weight regulation by filling depth, and comes with a fully instrumented R&D package with specialised software. Each is ideally suited for scale-up purposes and production optimisation, offering substantial potential savings through this versatility. Each machine offers containment, as well as intuitive interaction via an 18½” HMI screen and smartphone-enabled remote operation.

Next-Generation Capsule Filler

The PLANETA 200 Capsule Filler is the latest evolution in a line of well-established continuous motion machines. Producing up to 200,000 capsules/hr, its primary advantage is premium flexibility: its modular design results in a highly configurable platform suitable for a wide array of production requirements – including an ability to fit several dosing units simultaneously, enabling one capsule to be filled with differing products.

Dosing units ascribe to a “no capsule, no dosage” concept, ensuring superior machine cleaning as well as reduction of both product waste and its exposure to the greater processing environment.

The PLANETA 200 is capable of configuration for different speeds, and can be equipped with isolators satisfying different containment levels, as well as various washing systems ranging from Wet-In-Place to Wash/Clean-In-Place automatic systems.

Market’s Most Accurate Capsule Weight Control System

MG America’s MultiNETT Weight Control System, the market’s most accurate to date for capsule manufacturing lines. The 100% weight control system monitors and reports the net weight of each dosed capsule. In doing so, MultiNETT – which can check product microdosages and different components in various dosage combinations – achieves an unsurpassed degree of accuracy, even for low-dose applications.

In addition, MultiNETT’s continuous, precise measuring of dosages optimises production by monitoring process indexes and identifying possible improvements.

If necessary, MultiNETT self-adjusts the dosing chamber to keep the process in line with required parameters. Moreover, the analysis of data supplied by MultiNETT identifies – in real time and without production interruption – the dosators requiring a check, in order to optimise batch quality.

World’s Fastest Tablet Checkweigher

MG2’s SELEKTA delivers 100% weight verification for a variety of product shapes and sizes at speeds up to 500,000/hr, utilising the aforementioned MultiNETT weight control system. The machine distinguishes conforming and nonconforming units through a fail-safe system employing a set of sensors located at critical points throughout the testing process.