Industrial tablet coating solution
Achieve precise film and sugar coatings on a versatile range of tablet and pellet forms, enhancing your production efficiency with optimized mixing, drying, and cleaning processes while maintaining high product integrity and reduced operator exposure.

Ensures Uniform Coating on Tablets and Pellets
The PERFIMA from IMA Group is a perforated coating pan designed to meet the rigorous demands of pharmaceutical coating processes. Its unique design facilitates efficient mixing and uniform coating for a wide range of tablet forms, including film-coated ibuprofen and sugar-coated aspirin. With a capacity range adaptable to batch sizes from 25% to 100% of the pan volume, PERFIMA accommodates varied production needs. It features automatic loading and discharging systems, minimizing handling time and labor. Energy efficiency is bolstered by an air recirculation system that reduces consumption. The equipment is equipped with an Automatic Clean-In-Place system, ensuring compliance with GMP standards while simplifying maintenance. The system’s modular components, including interchangeable drums and mixing baffles, offer enhanced flexibility, making it suitable for pharmaceutical, biotech, and personal care manufacturing.
Benefits
- Enhances product consistency with uniform coating across diverse batch sizes.
- Reduces energy consumption by optimizing air recirculation and drying processes.
- Minimizes manual intervention with automated loading, discharging, and cleaning systems.
- Complies with GMP standards, ensuring safe and regulatory-compliant production.
- Offers flexible production capabilities with customizable drum configurations.
- Applications
- Pellets,Minitablets,Coating materials,Pharmaceutical tablets
- End products
- Probiotic film-coated tablets,Film-coated ibuprofen tablets,Sugar-coated aspirin tablets,Extended-release paracetamol pellets,Enteric-coated minitablets,Anti-inflammatory drug pellets,Vitamin d minitablets
- Steps before
- Mixing,Tablet Core Production
- Steps after
- Drying,Packing,Inspection,Quality Control
- Input ingredients
- tablet film,sugar,pellet,minitablet,tablet
- Output ingredients
- coated tablets,coated pellets,coated minitablets
- Market info
- IMA is known for its expertise in manufacturing automated packaging machines and solutions, particularly for the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, food, tea, and coffee industries, offering innovative, high-quality equipment and comprehensive customer service.
- Pan Capacity
- 25% to 100%
- Minimum/Maximum Capacity (litres)
- 6 (1.5 – 6),10 (3-10),30 (8-30),70 (18-70),30-120 (12-120),60-250 (25-250),90-360 (30-360),140-550 (55-550),240-950 (95-950)
- Pan Diameter (mm)
- 715,765,865,985,1,200,1,360,1,516,1,716,1,985
- Pan Motor Power (kW)
- 1.5,4,5.5,7.5
- Process Air Delivery (m³/h)
- 1,100,2,500,4,000,5,000,6,000,8,000
- Automation
- Automatic product loading and discharging systems
- Clean-In-Place System
- Automatic
- Batch Size
- From 25% to 100% of pan capacity
- Automation level
- PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- CIP/SIP
- Automatic Clean-In-Place system
- Energy efficiency
- Optimized through AHU
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Containment capability
- Operator exposure reduction
- Batch range compatibility
- 25% to 100% of pan capacity
- Clean-In-Place Validation
- University of Parma
- Pan diameter
- 715 mm (for 6 L drum),765 mm (for 10 L drum),865 mm (for 30 L drum),985 mm (for 70 L drum),1,200 mm,1,360 mm,1,516 mm,1,716 mm,1,985 mm
- Pan mouth diameter
- 474 mm,540 mm,580 mm,732 mm
- Pan shape
- Perforated coating pan
- Discharge method
- Automatic product discharging systems
- Drum size
- 6-950 liters depending on model
- Control panel type
- MAX new corporate HMI
- Discharge method
- Automatic product loading and discharging systems
- Mixing baffles
- Welded / Removable
- Installation
- Through-the-wall machine installation possible