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Optimizing Your Solid Dose Drug Delivery

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Whether it is sustained release or oral disintegration, oral solid dose or dry inhaled powders. Our particle-optimized excipients have been specifically developed to provide an excellent performance in solid drug delivery, targeting multiple administration routes and different release kinetics, and include:

  • Options for modifying release kinetics, such as orally disintegrating tablets and sustained-release solid oral formulations
  • Specialized excipients for different routes of administration, including dry powder inhalation

All supported by the Emprove® Program with comprehensive documentation to speed up your way to the market. Whenever applicable, our products are compliant with the major pharmacopeias.

Explore how you can improve productivity and performance.



EXPLORE HOW YOU CAN IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE

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Sustained-Release Solid Dose Formulations

Reliable sustained drug delivery over long release periods with our functional, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based excipient to increase efficacy and bioavailability while reducing side effects and the risk of dose dumping.

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A High-Performance Synthetic Carrier

Our versatile carrier option for your dry powder inhalation (DPI) formulation. Engineered from mannitol and designed to improve the flow and release characteristics of APIs in drugs delivered via dry, inhaled powders.

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Directly Compressible Excipient for ODTs

Produce top quality, rapid acting tablets more cost effectively than ever. Robust tablets, rapid disintegration, excellent mouthfeel combined with superior performance in direct compression and continuous manufacturing.

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Mask Bitter Aftertaste for a Sweeter Pill to Swallow

Pleasant taste can make a difference in patient compliance and, as a result, in therapeutic benefit. Our high intensity sweeteners Neotame, Sucralose micronized and Sucralose granular mask bitter aftertaste and medical off-notes with ease.


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PVA for Sustained Release: Theory and Practice

This webinar presents PVA, a fully synthetic polymer, for optimized sustained release matrix formulations.

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API Stability in Solid Dose Formulation "The Myth of Inert Excipients"

This webinar explores how the choice of excipients can improve API stability in a solid dosage drug formulation.

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The High Intensity Sweeteners Neotame and Sucralose: Two Ways to Ace the Patient's Taste Test

We present our new toolbox of two high performance sweeteners and focus on aspects of stability, safety, the application in various dosage forms, and market perception.

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