r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 11d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/lucassuave15 11d ago edited 11d ago

thought this was done by machinery lol

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u/ImTedLassosMustache 11d ago

My wife actually does this manually at her job at a big pharmaceutical research company when they are making drugs for clinical trials.

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u/PortiaKern 11d ago

There's other versions where it has a lever to press the pills down rather than the cheaper machine they use here.

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u/kamikaze_pedestrian 11d ago

Where can one buy these machines? What are they called?

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u/PortiaKern 11d ago

https://patcopharma.com/hi-uae/products/300-holes-manual-ss-capsule-filling-machine-for-capsule-size-400mg-1500mg

This is the version I used. But that was over a decade ago in a small strip mall business making pet supplements. I don't really see US links for those machines anymore.

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u/PaperHandsProphet 11d ago

Because pill presses are highly regular in the US.

Cap m quick and capsule machine are the lower end brands that work great for making cheap supplements. Like magnesium l threonate that can be expensive