Complete solutions for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical coatings
From masking unpleasant tastes and odors to protecting drugs, supplements and over-the-counter solutions from environmental stresses, film coating offers a world of benefits for patients and manufacturers.
All-round better drug delivery
Film coating offers so much more than taste-masking. For patients and consumers, properly coated tablets means a more attractive appearance, simpler drug identification, enhanced flavor and odor and easier swallowing. The result? Better medication adherence, better healthcare outcomes and a better quality of life.
In the laboratory too, coatings help limit cross-contamination, improve tablet quality, stability and packaging efficiency, safeguard against damage from light, water or gases, and make sure brands stand out in a crowded marketplace.
Our coating solutions
The longest standing coating method, hard coating is traditionally used to mask unpleasant tastes and odors, as well as protect active ingredients against light damage.
Our SweetPearl® maltitol powder represents the gold standard for sugar-free hard coating solutions with a wide range of outstanding formulation features, including faster coating time, effective sugar replacement, an attractive taste profile and a low-calorie, diabetic-safe positioning.
LYCOAT®: Quality film coatings
Film coatings are thin polymer-based layers applied to the surface of tablets, or on materials dispensed within capsules. Our modified pea starch film forming polymer LYCOAT® is a best-in-class solution for aqueous film coatings, specifically designed for immediate release medications.
Offering clean and rapid solubilization in water for faster coating suspension preparation, LYCOAT® allows manfactureres to cut coating time, delivering high quality drugs with no logo bridging and a neutral taste.
ReadiLYCOAT®: Ready-to-use coating system
A homogeneous blend of LYCOAT® RS, plasticizer, pigments and other additives developed for the coating of solid dosage forms, ReadiLYCOAT® MS is ideal for protecting moisture sensitive formulations.
Brands can choose between a clear or white coating system, for the perfect finish in any application. D CLEAR grades are blends of pregelatinized hydroxypropyl pea starch, sorbitol and stearic acid. D WHITE products are blends of pregelatinized hydroxypropyl pea starch, sorbitol, stearic acid and titanium dioxide.
Discover more about our excipients and active ingredients
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Get to know our dream team for superior tablet coating: a natural inert polymer and ready-to-use coating system for fast aqueous film coating.
Discover our solutions
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Direct compression
Tablet formulation made simple. Discover our solutions for direct compression without compromise.
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Disintegrants and Superdisintegrants
Explore our wide range of disintegration excipients, designed to aid the release of active ingredients in tablets or capsules.
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Fillers, Diluents and Binders
Discover our range of fillers, diluents and binders specially formulated to support your solid dosage forms.
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Solubility and stability improvement
Unlock a whole new level of quality with our range of solubilization and stability enhancers, ideal for virtually any dosage form, from solid tablets to liquid suspensions.
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Taste-masking
Get to know KLEPTOSE®, our leading range of taste-masking agents, strategically adapted to address any process or formulation constraint.
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Liquid solutions
From syrups and solutions to ampoules and dispersions: Discover our extensive range of plant-based excipients for liquid dosage forms.
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