Dear friends and readers, I am extremely grateful to you all for your love, support and guidance throughout all these years and making your instrumental contribution in the journey of your favourite magazine Microbioz India. With immense pleasure, here I release before you another special edition for the upcoming largest event ACHEMA going to be organized in Frankfurt, Germany.  

The special edition brings for you a cover story titled ‘Evaluating powder characterisation techniques for the optimisation of a dry granulation process’ authored by Tim Freeman, Managing Director, Freeman Technology and Hartmut Vom Bey, Vice President, Gerteis Maschinen + Process engineering AG. The article presents a collaborative study between Gerteis AG, a market leader in the design and supply of premium roller compaction equipment, and Freeman Technology, specialists in powder characterisation, to identify powder properties that characterise dry granulates to support the optimisation of roller compaction processes. For more information, please turn to the cover story.