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Vibratory size grader adds efficiencies for Jamieson Laboratories

Automates removal of broken tablets and fragments upstream of packaging for Canadian maker of vitamins, minerals, and supplements.

Jamieson Symetix
Jamieson Symetix

Windsor, Ontario, Canada-based Jamieson Laboratories refers to itself as Canada’s oldest and largest manufacturer and distributor of natural vitamins, minerals, concentrated food supplements, herbs.
To help the company provide the highest level of quality, purity, and safety, Jamieson recently installed an Impulse®/P high-capacity vibratory size grader from Symetix®. The Impulse/P automates the removal of broken tablets and fragments just before packaging to improve product quality while reducing labor costs.

“Prior to Impulse/P, we were manually sorting tablets for breakage. We searched for an automated solution that would improve product quality and alleviate unnecessary labor at the same time,” says Andy Holwell, Jamieson’s director of operations. “What used to take a week to manually sort on an inspection belt can now be accomplished in an eight-hour shift, including clean up.”

Designed for solid-dose pharmaceutical and nutraceutical manufacturers and contract packers, the Impulse/P vibratory size grader includes a sanitary stainless-steel bed and removable decks with holes that are perfectly sized for each product. Gentle electromagnetic power is combined with a high-throughput design to mechanically sort softgels and tablets.

Jamieson selected Symetix’s Impulse/P for tablets, a 48-in. (122-cm) wide system that size grades up to 1,000,000 tablets/hr, while their subsidiary, International Nutrient Technologies, installed the 18-in. (46-cm) wide Impulse/P for softgels, which size grades up to 500,000 softgels/hr.

Jamieson’s two-deck tablet system removes broken tablets and fragments, and the three-deck softgel system at International Nutrient Technologies removes twins, clusters, slugs, under-diameter capsules, and over-diameter softgels.

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