O'Hara Technologies Inc.

The Labcoat™ product line consists of multi-pan laboratory coating systems with interchangeable pans. Our fully-perforated drums with 51% open-area provide maximum air flow and high efficiency heat transfer, resulting in less utility consumption. Anti-bearding spray guns significantly decrease clogging, allowing for little or no operator intervention during the coating process, decreasing downtime. The removable air plenums are designed to direct the airflow through the tablet bed with virtually no overspray.


The complete range of Labcoat™ systems are equipped with automated controls. A colour touchscreen human machine interface (HMI) is provided for reliable operation. User-friendly controls require minimum operator training. Process recipes can be stored by the system; all process parameters can be recorded and printed. Multi-level security is provided for supervisors, maintenance personnel and operators. Comprehensive sensing and alarm systems protect process quality and provide real time data.

With the Fastcoat™ production series product line, O’Hara Technologies brings to the marketplace high performance, fixed and interchangeable pan tablet coating systems. For over 40 years, O’Hara has been the global market leader specializing in pharmaceutical tablet coating. The Fastcoat™ tablet coater line encompasses years of industry experience, bringing state of the art, user friendly process systems to your facility.

Mounted on our Professional Coating Arm (PCA) with built in solution lines, our anti-bearding spray guns significantly decrease clogging, allowing for little or no operator intervention during the coating process, decreasing downtime. The removable air plenums are designed to direct the airflow through the tablet bed with virtually no overspray. Our fully-perforated drums with 51% open-area provide maximum air flow and high efficiency heat transfer, resulting in less utility consumption. Reverse unloading baffles in all our production tablet coaters allow for effortless discharge at the touch of a button.

A colour touchscreen human machine interface (HMI) is provided for reliable operation. User-friendly controls require minimum operator training. All process parameters can entered into a recipe, recorded and stored, compliant with 21 CFR Part 11. Multi-level security is provided for supervisors, maintenance personnel and operators. Comprehensive sensing and alarm systems protect process quality and provide real time data.

For over fifteen years, O’Hara Technologies has been perfecting our Fastcoat™ Continous tablet coating technology, to the point where we are the global leader in pharmaceutical continuous tablet coating. Our continuous coaters significantly shorten production cycle times and improve productivity, while using less GMP floor space and utilities than traditional batch coaters. The nature of continuous coating requires a shallower tablet bed, which leads to less product damage, and allows tablets to pass under the anti-bearding spray nozzles at a higher frequency. As a result, our customers see markedly improved coating uniformity, often at significantly lower weight gains than traditional batch coating. Our patented technology allows for a wide range of production capacities; we offer equipment designed for 75, 500 and 1200 kilograms per hour nominal throughput rates. O’Hara’s Zero Waste recipe control system allows for every tablet to be coated to your specification, from the first to the last. The coater can also be used as a fully automated batch coater, complete with automatically loading, coating and unloading tablets, giving you the ultimate versatility. At last, your pilot, scale-up and production processes can finally be done in one machine, now that your batch size is now determined by time instead of the physical size of the coating pan. Welcome to the future of coating.