A high-performance inspection system for tablets, capsules, and softgels achieves 100%, in-line inspection at full production speeds using spatial colour analysis) technology.

Symetix, the Pharmaceutical Business Unit of Key Technology, introduces Vantyx, a high-performance inspection system for tablets, capsules, and softgels. Vantyx achieves 100 percent, in-line inspection at full production speeds using Key's patented SCA (Spatial Color Analysis) technology, which provides the industry's highest color and spatial resolution. With unmatched precision, Vantyx verifies product color, count, shape, position, and presence of print and removes foreigners, color errors, shape defects, and missing doses to assure every dose conforms to product requirements.

Vantyx enables pharmaceutical manufacturers to achieve the highest level of diligence while maximizing throughput.

Vantyx is FDA 21 CFR part 11 compliant, designed to meet GAMP 4 requirements, and benefits from Key Technology's 10-year history of supplying FDA-validated inspection solutions to the pharmaceutical industry and 50-year history of supplying innovative technology to the food industry.

Symetix offers complete engineering services and validation packages.

The compact and flexible Vantyx inspection system can be embedded within other packaging machinery such as blisterpack thermoformers, flat bed printers, and slat fillers.

Symetix can also supply Vantyx as a stand-alone, bulk-to-bulk high volume inspection system.

The technology is capable of inspecting up to 10,000 individual tablets, capsules, or softgels per minute, or as many as 360 complete blisterpacks per minute.

Vantyx ensures accurate product identification and product integrity to maximise pharmaceutical manufacturers' diligence in assuring product quality while running at full production speeds.

Vantyx also serves to monitor upstream production processes, which allows manufacturers to address the FDA's Process Analytic Technology (PAT) guidelines for physical characteristics of the product.

Symetix can equip Vantyx with two to six high-resolution color cameras, depending on the needs of the application.

With up to six cameras, Vantyx can simultaneously inspect up to six different packages or six separate arrays of product.

Each camera uses a dedicated image processor for maximum speed and image resolution.

* About Symetix - Symetix, launched in September 2005, is the Pharmaceutical Business Unit of Key Technology, the leading manufacturer of best-in-class process automation systems with over 50 years of experience in the food, tobacco, and pharmaceutical industries.

Symetix offers worldwide sales representation and maintains demonstration and testing facilities at Key's headquarters and manufacturing divisions in Walla Walla, Washington, USA, and at Key Technology BV in Beusichem, the Netherlands.

Key's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market tier of The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM under the symbol: KTEC.