Robin Engineering partners with India's Chamunda

Robin Engineering, a UK-based materials handling and processing systems specialist company, will act as the marketing representative for Chamunda as it breaks into the UK and Irish market place.

Chamunda already sells its products in Far Eastern markets and in the USA, Germany and Scandinavia, where the products have already been well-received.

This is the first partnership deal for Robin Engineering that focuses soley on manufacturing equipment for the pharma industry.

Previous company dealings have focused on specialist conveying and processing equipment for primarily the food, as well as the pharma industry.

The new partnership will offer "European-standard quality at a better price,"​ Brian Milnes, Co-Director of Robin Engineering, told In-PharmaTechnologist.com​.

"By having the products manufactured in India, we can offer our customers up to 40 per cent off the price of buying similar machinery from a European manufacturer.​

"These products are manufactured according to cGMP standards and are as good as any comparable product on the market today."​

Chamunda's range of pharmaceutical machinery includes the Alpha single rotary tablet press for high-speed tableting operations, capable of outputs up to 250,000 tablets per hour, with a maximum diameter of 16mm.

For operations producing small batches, a single rotary press is available for up to 55,000 tablets per hour, for tablets from 16mm to 25mm, and a 12-station model can also be applied to produce tablets up to 40mm in diameter at a maximum rate of 15,000 pieces/hour.

The Chamunda range also includes a series of fluidised bed driers and processors with chamber volumes of up to 475 litres, permitting the processing of batches up to 200kg per cycle.

The products are available now, although the official launch will be at the Achema exhibition in Frankfurt in May, and the company expects to sell at least 6 of Chamunda's machines in the next 12 months.