Process for producing medicine dosage units in solid form, of the type in which an active medicinal ingredient, composed of one or more active medicinal substances, is mixed with a carrier substance that is solid at room temperature but liquid at elevated temperature, and dose units are prepared starting from the mixture thus obtained, characterized in that said mixture, while being at a temperature at which the vehicle substance forms a melt containing the active medicinal ingredient dispersed and/or dissolved therein, is fed in the passage between a pair of rotating rollers disposed side by side, side by side, and provided on their peripheral surfaces with cavities that are dimensioned to correspond to the desired dimensions of the dose units, the melt flowing into the cavities so that it fills them, because the surfaces of the rollers are cooled to a temperature low enough to rovocar that the vehicle substance is solidified within the cavities, and because the dose units thus obtained are discharged or removed from the cavities and if desired are subjected to a finishing treatment such as a finishing coating. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
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