The Titan AG-2 and AG-3: One, Two and Three Layer Industrial Rotary Tableting Presses

Linotech Titan two and three layer Layer Rotary Industrial Tableting Press
Features:
  • First manufactured in 1997 and now considered an industry standard
  • Presses one, two and three layer tablets up to 55 mm in diameter
  • Siemens PLC with Touch Screen HMI
  • Industrial PC with MES/MRP functions available as an option
  • Cored tablet-within-tablet option available
  • Custom solutions for difficult shapes and poorly flowing powders
  • Stainless steel product contact surfaces or customer specified coatings
  • Forged stainless steel turret with hard-chrome plated die table
  • Baked on Epoxy finish
  • Built to customer's specifications

The Titan Series Presses

 

General Description:

The Titan AG-2 rotary press is designed to press 1 layer tablets with 2 discharges, or 2 layer tablets with one discharge. The AG-3 can be configured as a single, double or triple layer tableting machine with one discharge.

Both presses are capable of pressing tablets up to 55 mm in diameter. Depending on tablet size, the AG-2 can press over 200,000 tablets/hour through both discharges, while the AG-3 can press over 100,000 tablets/hour through its single outlet

Detergent Tablets

Dishwasher Detergent
Tablets

Products pressed on the Titan presses include, but are not limited to, dishwashing detergent tablets, laundry detergent tablets, water softener tablets, Chlorine tablets for swimming pools, cosmetics and food products.

The Titan series was first developed in 1997 and is now an industry standard for tablet presses. This robust machine has an established reputation for reliability and economy, and has proven to be ideal for long production runs as well as for short production runs by contract manufacturers  

Recipe Screen

HMI Recipe Screen

The PLCs based press controls are customized to each customer’s requirements. Linotech Presses employ Siemens PLCs with 12 inch touch screen HMI with different access levels for operators and supervisors. 

Machine Settings Screen

HMI Machine
Settings Screen

Surfaces are made of stainless steel or coated with application-specific corrosion resistant coatings. The enclosures are safety interlocked with a smooth fit and finish for product containment. The compression chamber can be kept under negative air pressure to reduce operator exposure to dust.

 

 

The Turret

The turrets have hard chrome plating on the working surfaces. Punch holders ride in lubricated bushings. The turrets are driven by powerful AC motors coupled with frequency inverters. The turret drives have enough torque so that the presses can be restarted under full load without any problem. 

 

 

 

Removing Powder Feeder

Removing
Powder Feeder

The presses are designed to use as many readily available, off-the-shelf components as possible. Most of the major components in the compression zone can be removed without any tools for easy cleaning. The modular design makes it easy for technicians to remove major sub-assemblies without having to disassemble the entire press. A simple tool is supplied to facilitate de-tooling.  

 

 

 

 

Options:

  • Customized cam profile
  • Additional fill cams available in 5mm height increments
  • Upper punch penetration adjustment
  • Individual punch force control, monitoring and tracking system
  • Cooling/Freezing solutions
  • Dry air introduction
  • Magnesium Stearate injection to reduce sticking
  • Cored, or tablet-within-tablet
  • Unmanned operation with automatic tablet sampling system
  • Other features are available. Please discuss your intended application with us.

These options must be specified when submitting the URS for the project. Combined, AC Compacting and Linotech has over 100 years of tableting experience, and we can offer many solutions to your tableting requirements, some of which may not be given here.

 

 

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AC Compacting LLC
1577 Livingston Avenue, Post Office Box 7266
North Brunswick, NJ 08902-7266
Tel: 732-249-6900 / Tel: 800-524-0183 / Fax: 732-249-6909