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Dott Bonapace suppository machines have been in use worldwide for many years, in laboratories and factories of all sizes. Some of the original machines are still in operation in surprising large multinational plants.
Two different sizes of the latest machines are available, the larger producing up to 6,000 suppositories per hour while the other unit is the smallest automatic system available with an output of 3,000 suppositories per hour.
Both machines used pre-formed shell fed from reels. This gives great flexibility as it allows a wide range of sizes and shapes to be produced with a filling range from 0 to 3.5ml in 0.1 increments for the heated, molten product kept at a constant temperature and mixed in the jacketed hopper. Once filled, the shells are rewound into reels which can be placed in an optional cooling unit. Alternatively the product can be left to set in ambient conditions.
The reels are then fed into the separate sealing machine which closes the shells and trims the top edge of the pack before cutting a pre-set but adjustable number of suppositories into a strip. An embossing unit can also be fitted to code the pack during this sealing and cutting process.
These units can be supplied as separate bench top machines or integrated to form a compact production station for suppositories.
A wide range of pre-formed suppository shells of differing shapes and sizes, with or without printing, can also be supplied along with the suppository mass excipient Subanal.