Pharmaceutical Excipients and Capsules
Complete support for pharmaceutical dosage forms: Discover our range of quality excipients and capsules designed to tackle the toughest challenges in drug delivery.
Pharmaceutical Excipients and Capsules for Oral Dosage Forms
Unlike traditional approaches, where excipient choice may limit formulation performance, Roquette’s solutions are designed to address multiple formulation challenges in a cost-efficient, reliable, and patient-centric way. Our excipients and capsules help overcome barriers such as solubility, stability, and patient compliance, while simplifying manufacturing processes and ensuring global regulatory acceptance.
By leveraging decades of experience and a broad portfolio tailored for both solid oral dosage forms and liquid oral dosage forms, Roquette empowers pharmaceutical and biotech companies to accelerate innovation while delivering patient-friendly, high-quality
Ingredients and Expertise
Roquette provides excipients and capsules that directly address key formulation challenges across solid and liquid oral dosage forms. By combining plant-based innovation with decades of expertise, these solutions offer measurable advantages in speed, stability, and patient acceptability compared with conventional approaches.
Solubility and Stability Enhancers
Poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are among the most pressing formulation challenges. Roquette’s solubility and stability enhancers improve bioavailability and ensure consistent therapeutic performance, reducing the need for complex processing steps.
Taste Masking Agents
With our KLEPTOSE® beta-cyclodextrin range, Roquette enables effective taste masking to enhance patient compliance — especially critical for pediatric and geriatric populations. This approach improves overall treatment adherence while preserving drug performance.
Direct Compression Solutions
Direct compression excipients such as PEARLITOL® mannitol and LYCATAB® partially pregelatinized starch provide a faster, more cost-efficient alternative to wet granulation. They simplify formulation, shorten processing times, and deliver robust performance across tablet formats.
Binders and Fillers
PEARLITOL® mannitol and LYCATAB® PGS pregelatinized maize starch serve as multifunctional binders and fillers, enabling reliable tablet formation and compatibility with a wide range of APIs. Their functionality reduces formulation variability and improves manufacturing reproducibility.
Disintegrants
The LYCATAB® partially pregelatinized starch range and GLYCOLYS® sodium starch glycolate support rapid, reliable disintegration, ensuring timely release of actives in the patient’s system. This functionality helps manufacturers develop dosage forms that meet therapeutic requirements without compromising patient convenience.
Coatings
Our ReadiLYCOAT® hydroxypropyl pea starch-based film coating system offers ready-to-use coatings that improve swallowability, enhance product stability, and increase patient appeal. These coatings reduce complexity while ensuring reproducibility in large-scale production.
Liquid Solutions
For oral liquids, LYCASIN® maltitol and GLUCIDEX® maltodextrin provide versatile solutions for syrups, suspensions, and other liquid dosage forms. Their stability and patient acceptability support formulation of effective, consumer-friendly products.
Hard Capsules
Designed to meet the diverse needs of modern APIs, our broad range of capsule formats enables greater flexibility in formulation and performance. Their versatility helps unlock reliable, efficient, and innovative oral delivery options.
A Comprehensive Portfolio of Excipients and Capsules for Solid Oral Drug Delivery
Roquette’s portfolio includes high-performance excipients and hard capsule solutions tailored to prescription oral dosage forms. Each product is supported by global regulatory acceptance and quality systems to ensure reliability and consistency.
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Our Solutions
Innovation Powered by Collaboration
Roquette supports customers not only through excipient supply, but also through comprehensive services and continuous innovation. Customer Technical Services (CTS) teams provide hands-on formulation support, troubleshooting, and prototype development, enabling faster scale-up and smoother product launches. Our regulatory experts ensure global compliance, helping companies navigate complex pharmaceutical requirements with confidence.
Sustainability remains a key priority. By focusing on plant-based excipients and reducing the carbon footprint of our operations, Roquette provides solutions aligned with the environmental goals of pharmaceutical companies.
An innovation pipeline, including work on 3D printing technologies and advanced coating systems, further demonstrates Roquette’s long-term commitment to advancing patient-centric dosage forms.
For hard capsules, Roquette’s technical developers (TDs) and technical service engineers (TSEs) play a critical role in supporting customers, offering formulation expertise, technical guidance, and troubleshooting tailored to capsule-based drug delivery systems.
Discover More About the Markets We Serve
Biologics
Functional excipients supporting protein stabilization, viscosity reduction, and bioprocessing efficiency in biologic drug development.
Consumer Healthcare
Plant-based ingredients and excipients, as well as capsules, for nutraceuticals, over-the- counter (OTC) products, and functional supplements that combine efficacy with consumer appeal.