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Stop sticking, picking and capping — without over-lubricating.
Tablet compression fails in predictable ways: powder sticks to punches, tablets cap, weights drift. The fix is the right lubricant and glidant at the right level — engineered so you solve the defect without slowing disintegration.
Request Samples & CoAThe problem
What goes wrong, and why
On a running press, three forces work against you: adhesion (powder sticking to tooling), friction (die-wall drag that causes capping and lamination), and poor flow (uneven die-fill and weight variation). Lubricants and glidants counter all three — but add too much lubricant and you trade one problem for another: slower disintegration, softer tablets, poorer dissolution.
The Excipients that solve it
Match the grade to the problem
Magnesium Stearate
The primary lubricant and anti-adherent. Our high-surface-area grade (to 20 m²/g) delivers the lubricating film with less material in the blend. Named grade: WLSPL-MS TAB.
Calcium Stearate
Lubricant and anti-adherent that also reduces tooling wear; useful where a different flow/lubrication balance is needed.
Purified Talcum Powder
Glidant and anti-sticking agent for die-fill uniformity and reduced adhesion.
How to specify
What to put in your spec sheet
- Target the minimum effective lubricant level — a higher-surface-area Magnesium Stearate lets you go lower.
- Control blend time — over-mixing Magnesium Stearate over-lubricates; consistent PSD helps reproducibility.
- Use talc as a glidant where flow, not just lubrication, is the issue.
- Ask us for the surface area and PSD that match your press speed and formulation.
FAQs
Tablet Compression — common questions
What causes tablet sticking and how do I fix it?
How do I avoid over-lubrication?
Which grade for high-speed presses?
Proof before promises
Send us your tablet compression problem — we'll recommend a grade.
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