Granulation Techniques

Granulation is one of the most important unit operation in the production of pharmaceutical oral dosage forms. Granulation is defined as the size enlargement process in which fine and smaller particle are aggregated to form strong and stable particles called granules. Granulation process improves flow compressibility and content uniformity of powders this technique helps to achieve improved yields with tablet defects, high productivity along with reduced down time the present review mainly focused on granulation techniques and the advantages and disadvantages of the process.