Adamus SA

Additionally, upon our client’s specification, punches and dies allow for the manufacturing of round or shaped, plain tablets or tablets with a breaking line, symbols, letters or even complicated logos. Upon the client’s specification, different coatings can be applied.

The dies produced by our company meet the standards of the manufactured punches, which allows for a perfect cooperation of these tools in the tablet press. Dies can have tapers on both sides of the hole, which greatly improves deaeration in the powder compression process and lowers the tablets ejecting force as well as minimises the rate.

Thanks to the appropriate design software and the manufacturing based on computer controlled machines, we are able to deliver punches and dies with all complex shapes and forms.

The only limitation may be the mechanical strength of the tooling and process limitation during tablet compression. We gladly cooperate with both the marketing and R&D departments of our customers to develop the new tablet shapes and forms. Our experienced engineers can provide a customised tablet design in 2D & 3D format. All our customers can get access to our proprietary tablet designing software – TabGen – to check their own design ideas.

Multi-tip tooling applied by ADAMUS S.A. is a cost effective way to significantly increase the capacity of produced tablets without investing in the new tablet presses by reducing:

• labour costs
• maintenance costs
• investment costs
• energy costs

Multi-tipped tooling is available in two different configurations:

• assembly construction - composite
• solid construction - monoblock 

The choice between those two options depends on the application, customer requirements, internal cleaning procedures and technical feasibility (the tablet dimensions and number of tips).

By using multi-tipped tooling the number of tablets produced per one turret revolution should be theoretically the multiple of the number of tips in the punch. However, due to the slightly lower turret speed connected with the necessity of the filling of more die holes, the real capacity can sometimes be lower. Depending on the product characteristic the measured capacity increase can vary but the mean values are ca. 1.5 for double-tiptooling, 2.8 for four-tip tooling and 4.5 for six-tip tooling.

The main requirements for steels used in the manufacturing of compression tooling are the wear resistance, good resistance to chipping, high compressive strength, good through hardening properties, high hardness after high temperature tempering and good stability in hardening.
ADAMUS S.A. uses steel grades which fulfill those requirements and purchase them only from world leading steel producers.
Besides the standard steel grades used by all compression tooling suppliers, ADAMUS S.A. offers a series of different specialty steels which can solve the tableting problems with abrasive, sticky and corrosive products as well as products which requires the higher compression forces than recommended due to the tablet size and dimensions. Such steels with the combination of different coatings, the right surface finish and very narrow dimensional tolerances make the tooling supplied by ADAMUS S.A. one of the best in the world.