Specialty excipients

Enhance formulations with specialty excipients

Choosing the right excipient can be the difference between success and failure of a new drug. Our specialty ingredients and excipients offering helps enhance the performance of your formulation by improving stability, solubility, bioavailability, and taste - especially for orally disintegrating tablets, films, and liquids. Our high-quality portfolio includes cGMP-compliant vitamins, derivatives, flavors, and taste modulators to address the most complex challenges. We work closely with our customers to develop safe, effective formulations, supporting both small and large molecules with quality, regulatory, and technical expertise. From improving functionality to optimizing taste profiles for better patient compliance, we help our customers formulate with success.

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Making medicines taste better

Taste plays a key role in patient compliance. To improve acceptance and meet the rising demand for patient-friendly dosage forms, we co-create formulations that consider the patient experience from the beginning of the drug development journey. Our pharma-specific portfolio of taste solutions has been carefully curated for pharmaceutical formulations, and is supported by technical, quality, and regulatory expert services.

Are nitrosamines a concern in your drug products?

Navigating nitrosamine risk mitigation is an unprecedented challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. We are here to provide high quality antioxidants and unmatched technical expertise to help you succeed in addressing nitrosamines in your drug products.

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