Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Punch Sticking

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Punch Sticking

In the first blog of this series, Continuous Manufacturing: A Pharmaceutical Application for DEM, we looked at how direct compression is one of the most effective methods to maximize the efficiency of manufacturing pharmaceutical tablets. This is because it is the...
All Matter is Particulate Matter

All Matter is Particulate Matter

The first advocates for an atomic theory were Leucippus and Democritus, Greek philosophers, in the fifth century B.C. They suggested that matter is made of particles that are too small to be seen. Democritus proposed that if you kept cutting a substance in half into...