Dosators and tamping pin machines

Over its 50-year experience, MG2 has developed specific solutions for each critical issue related to nutraceuticals.

Nutraceutical substances (such as probiotics, vegetal products, sport supplements, mineral salts, fish oil derivatives...) can have positive effects on health, both preventive and therapeutic.
Nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals are so closely connected that pharmacies are the preferential distribution channel, selling approximately 90% of these kinds of products. Affinities are not limited to this: as for composition and characteristics, nutraceuticals often need to be handled like veritable drugs, although their packaging requirements may have different difficulties.

For a perfect dosing. MG2’s capsule fillers are well introduced in the main small, medium and big Companies working in the field of nutraceuticals, as they can satisfy the most diversified productive requirements. In most cases, the ideal solution for nutraceuticals is based on a volumetric dosator which, combined to the continuous motion, allows the optimal dosage of most powders and granular products.

In MG2’s machines, thanks to the continuous rotary motion, the dosator penetrates the powder layer angularly instead of vertically, at a lower speed compared to intermittent motion machines with tamping pin system. This dosing principle is particularly effective to allow dosing accuracy and constancy, as well as  smooth product handling, keeping its features unchanged.

These peculiarities are further enhanced by the possibility of MG2’s dosing units to adjust several parameters independently (such as the volume of dosing chamber, the height of powder layer and the compression applied during slug picking), to optimize each time their ideal combination according to the product to be dosed. Over the last few years, MG2 has also developed a range of intermittent motion machines based on tamping pin dosage, which performs several repeated filling phases, where the product slug is formed by compression. This solution is preferred to a dosator system, in case of ingredients which do not compact easily and therefore require strong compression.