Conventional hot melt extrusion requires significant downstream processing such as size reduction after the formation of melt and is not amenable for applications involving low melting excipients such as lipids. Typical size reduction processes involve generation of plastic energy which needs to be dissipated efficiently for optimum milling to take place. STEERLife’s proprietary hot melt fragmentation technology provides uniform shear fields which enables size reduction of materials with lower melting point or glass transition to take place within the equipment itself, a process which we have termed as “fragmentation:. The technology results in much more uniform size and a narrower distribution in comparison with the Erdmenger geometry.
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