Powdered medicine fillers or powder filling machines are suitable to handle a wide range of powdered and free flowing granulated products. There are different types of pharmaceutical filling machines like vial filling machines for filling up vials, or tube filling machines for filling up medicinal tubes. Similarly, powder fillers are designed to measure and dispense an amount of powder into a container, package, vials or bottles.

Types of Powder Filling Machines

• Auger Fillers: These pharmaceutical filling machines are semi-automatic machines for handling all type of powders, granulars and pastes. And for this type of filler is selected according to product characteristics, weight range and container size.
• Net Weight Fillers: These fillers have the advantage of accuracy, so no problem of giving away excessive fills with these machines. But the big disadvantage of a net weight filler is that the machines are relatively slow.
• Scale Powder Fillers: They use scales to weigh the proper amount of product and then dispense the powder into the vial or container.
• Vacuum Powder Fillers: This filling machines use a vacuum to fill out the proper amount of powder into a container.
• Bulk Powder Fillers: They fill containers with a large quantity of powder.
• Capsule Powder Fillers: They are used to fill capsules with powder.

Benefits of Powder Filling Machines

• Dosage plate in the machine ensures uniform powder flow and precise powder filling.
• Powder shield plate in the machines helps to eliminate powder spilling and thereby increasing the density and uniformity of the filled capsule.
• Accuracy and high precision is a requisite for all filling machines to ensure that proper dosage goes into the containers.
• Certain machines allow flexibility to accommodate different package sizes and product consistency.
• Powder fillers fill different types of containers including, cups, canisters, valve bags, bottle, capsules, bags etc.

Features of Powdered Medicine Fillers

• Sealed powder infeed system
• Over capping unit
• Fillers also eliminate costly hand weighing
• Fillers usually work on vacuum/volumetric dosing principle
• Capable of filling free-flowing and sticky materials
• Cleaning and maintenance is easy.

Applications of Powder Fillers

• Pharmaceutical
• Neutraceutical
• Cosmetics
• Chemical
• Food and beverage