What Will Firmapress Do For You?

Save You Money - Since 2009 we have encountered a range of expensive problems in tabletting, and we’ve worked out how to resolve them. We created Firmapress so that you don’t have to. Firmapress works with 99% of active ingredients, and comes at a fraction of the cost of developing your own formula. This removes the risk of different excipients not working with your active ingredient, potentially saving you thousands.

Convenience - Firmapress is a one-stop product, meaning that instead of dealing with 5 or more suppliers, you can simply order this one excipient on our website or request an invoice in seconds. Firmapress is in stock at all times in our UK, US and Taiwan offices and can be dispatched on the same or next working day so that you can keep production going.

Save Time - When it comes to developing products, resources are often limited, and ultimately it’s how well they are utilized that largely determines the success of the product or business. We’ve seen too many promising businesses stopped in their tracks because they spent too much time and money struggling to get their formulas perfect. Firmapress allows you to avoid the risk of this happening to your business and helps you start producing and potentially generate revenue from day one.

Stand Out From Competition - Standing out in any market can be hard. Along with our unique tooling range, we offer Firmapress in 10 vibrant colours to help you stand out from the competition and build a brand your customers will recognize. Firmapress is coloured with a food grade colouring, making it fully safe for human or animal consumption.

Why Do You Need Firmapress For Your Pill Mix?

When LFA was founded 10 years ago, customers were encountering tablettling problems that killed a lot of really promising businesses and products before they even got to market.

These were:

Binding Issues - Pills coming out soft and crumbly;

Flowing Issues - The tabletting mix gets stuck in parts of the machine;

Capping - The upper or lower part of the tablet separates horizontally.

These problems can all be traced back to the user's pill mix. It can take a huge amount of time and money to research and experiment in order to achieve a tabletting powder that works, which is why we saw some of our early customers go out of business before they even made a sale. They just couldn't get the formula right, or by the time they did, they had run out of money.

We started developing a solution to help our customers solve these problems in 2010. After a decade of continuous improvement, we settled on the Firmapress formula available to you today. It works with 99% of all active ingredients, and saves you spending long months and a small fortune researching and experimenting with every excipient before you find the one that best suits your ingredient.

With Firmapress, you simply add your raw ingredients, mix, and you have a food grade tablet from day one. For a new or established business, this removes the pressure of getting the pill mix right whilst the bills pile up, and you can start making sales from the outset.

What Are The Ingredients And What Do They Do?

Microcrystalline Cellulose: Microcrystalline cellulose is an easy flowing powder that adds bulk and weight to your pill mix. It offers strong bonding qualities while retaining high flowability, which ensures it is spread evenly throughout your mixture. As an inert substance, it won’t react with other ingredients. It is an all-round, beneficial ingredient that makes every part of the creation process easier.

Magnesium Stearate: Magnesium is the prime lubricant of the formula. It reduces friction at the point of contact between a tablet surface and the die wall during production, reducing damage to your freshly made tablet. It will prevent your formula from sticking to the machine and it is unaffected by process variables (for example, flow, temperature, pressure and level) which occur spontaneously. Magnesium stearate ensures that these surprises don’t affect the pill process. Just like microcrystalline cellulose, it has a high flow rate and is inert.

Silicon Dioxide: Silicon dioxide absorbs liquid with ease, turning liquid ingredients into a free-flowing powder that can be implemented into your formula. It acts as a glidant, which will improve flow qualities whilst still promoting quick tabletting. This ingredient will also reduce trace quantities of moisture which can damage your machines over time.

Dicalcium Phosphate: A commonly used filler, this ingredient ensures that your tablets will have uniform content, and increases compressibility capabilities. In other words, your tablets can be shaped and solidified with ease.

Each of these excipients provides unique benefits to your tabletting mix and ensures that binding and flowing issues are problems of the past. Let us take care of the technicalities, allowing you to focus on refining the rest of your formula and growing your business.