Instant & Modified Release

BASF offers the most comprehensive range of binders for any formulator challenge – from formulating highly sensitive drugs to establishing efficient continuous processing.

BASF offers disintegrants across a broad range of particle sizes, making any type of desired formulation possible.

In formulation processes film formers provide a range of functionalities via a coating layer. BASF offers a full range of highly efficient film formers for all dosage forms.

BASF offers a comprehensive range of lubricants, particularly for sensitive active ingredients.

BASF offer specific highly functional matrix formers as well as a selection of ready-to-use tablet and ODT bases that include filler and all other necessary components.

BASF offers moisture protective coatings that active ingredients remain unaffected from environmental moisture across its lifetime.

BASF offers a comprehensive selection of pharma plasticizers with trusted functional performance.

BASF offers a whole range of pore formers that can be used to tune sustained drug release in almost endless ways.

Whether you are looking for taste masking in a solid or a liquid dosage form, BASF has a whole range of solutions at hand.

As instant release film former, Kollicoat^® IR combines exceptional coating quality with simple, robust processing. As wet binder, it combines powerful binding with no peroxides at all. And all those characteristics also make it a great pore former for sustained release formulations.

A complete match – just better. Kollicoat^® MAE 100-55 combines two things hard to bring together – it can directly exchange the comparable pH 5.5 enteric release coating polymer in your commercial formulations, and still bring signifi cant handling improvement to your operators because it does not dust at all.

Enteric coating with release above pH 5.5, coming as partially pre-neutralized powder saving you the neutralization step.

Enteric coating with release above pH 5.5, coming as a 30 % solids content dispersion.

Effective and reliable moisture protection for your active ingredients

Breaking new ground in taste masking and moisture protection

Precise, pH-independent sustained release for multiple applications

Low-molecular grade Kollidon^®, intended for use as solubilizing agent, dispersant and crystallization inhibitor particularly for injectables. In addition applicable as pore former in solid dosage forms and viscosity enhancer in parenterals.

Low-molecular grade Kollidon^®, intended for use as solubilizing agent, dispersant and crystallization inhibitor, particularly for injectables. In addition applicable as pore former in solid dosage forms and viscosity enhancer in parenterals.

Our medium-molecular povidone is used in endless ways in pharmaceutical formulations - as binder, pore former, stabilizer, thickener, as solubilizing agent, crystallization inhibitor and many more. And with our trusted quality, it will always serve exactly what you intended it for.

Our medium-molecular povidone is used in endless ways in pharmaceutical formulations - as binder, pore former, stabilizer, thickener, as solubilizing agent, crystallization inhibitor and many more. And with our trusted quality, it will always serve exactly what you intended it for.

Our original, Kollidon^® 30 in a low peroxide version - protecting your oxygen-sensitive active ingredient longer.

A highly effective binder, for use as a stabilizer in oral and topical suspensions, as a thickener, and as a hydrophilizing agent or pore-forming agent in medical plastics.

The Kollidon^® CL family is the industry’s widest portfolio of super-disintegrants and dissolution enhancers. These highly functional cross-linked PVP polymers ensure that active ingredients are released from any solid dosage form at exceptionally high speed. In addition, they improve bioavailability of certain poorly soluble APIs.

Due to the balance of strong disintegration and optimal surface homogeneity our crosspovidone Kollidon^® CL-F is your first choice tablet disintegrant. The super-disintegrant is specifically suitable for use in small tablets to fasten disintegration and dissolution. Kollidon^® CL-F can also be used in wet granulation processes, when large amount of granulation liquids are needed.

Kollidon^® CL-M is used as a stabilizer for oral and topical suspensions and to improve the drug release characteristics of tablets, capsules or granules. Our disintegrant with micronized particles, delivers a slight disintegration functionality when used as binder. The crosspovidone is also used as pore former in some formulations.

The finest grade of water-insoluble crospovidone disintegrant available in the market for small and orally disintegrating tablets. It provides smooth tablet surface and cream-like mouth feel. Kollidon^® CL-SF strongly improves tablet hardness and has a strong ability to absorb water.

Direct Compression Sustained Release

Kollidon^® VA64 is used in granulation and as a dry binder in tablets, capsules and granules, as a film-forming agent in tablet coatings and subcoatings, and as a film-forming agent in topical sprays. Soluble copovidone widely used for instant release formulation and is suitable in hot-melt extrusion processes.

Highly effective soluble copovidone for dry binding due to a finer particle size and specifically designed for roller compaction and dry binding in Direct Compression formulations.

Flexible excipient to overcome a wide range of pharmaceutical challenges that provide formulators with increased efficiency and added functionality.

A water-soluble excipient supporting a variety of instant and modified release applications.

A polymeric multi-talent suitable for a large variety of applications, i.e. as thickening agent and gel former and as a co-emulsifier and viscosity enhancer in creams and liquid emulsions.

Kolliphor^® P 407 mico offers effective solubilization and perfect content uniformity in blends used in melt-granulation, hot-melt extrusion or for making tablets.

Non-ionic oil-in-water solubilizer and emulsifying agent

a widely used ionic solubilizer & and high HLB anionic emulsifier that is suitable for application in liquid dispersions, solutions, emulsions and micro emulsions to formulate tablets, foams and semi-solids such as creams, lotions and gels

A widely used ionic solubilizer and high HLB anionic emulsifier that is suitable for application in liquid dispersions, solutions, emulsions and micro-emulsions to formulate tablets, foams and semi-solids such as creams, lotions and gels.

A hydrophilic plasticizer used in both, aqueous and solvent-based polymeric coating of capsules, tablets and granules. Also used as a solubilizer and solvent as well as a humectant.

The only monographed poloxamer that is liquid at room temperature – making it ideal for liquid dosage forms. It is used for liquid-filled softgel capsules as a dispersion medium for APIs, or as plasticizer for tablet formulations.

Excellent solvents for a large number of substances that do not readily dissolve in water

Excellent solvents for a large number of substances that do not readily dissolve in water

A high molecular polyethylene glycol (macrogol) mainly used as solvent for oral, topical and parenteral preparations.

Manufactured under cGMP, Kollisolv® PG (1,2-propyleneglycol) can used across a wide range of applications, i.e. as plasticizer, solvent or co-solvent, stabilizer, or as carrier for emulsifiers.

Kolliwax® HCO is hydrogenated castor powder for pharmaceutical application used as consistency factor in topical formulations, as lipohphillic lubricant in tablets and capsules and as plasticizer in solid dispersions using spray drying, melt granulation or hot melt extrusion processes. Kolliwax® HCO is particularily suitable for formulation of sensitive APIs.

As lipophilic lubricant Kolliwax^® SA is the first choice for sensitive acidic APIs. It is commonly also used as viscosity regulator for oil-in-water emulsions and as a pH independent sustained release agent. Kolliwax^® SA acts as a plasticizer with included consistency factor in solid dispersions. It hardens suppository formulations and adjust their melting points.

As lipophilic lubricant Kolliwax^® SA Fine is the first choice for sensitive acidic APIs. It is used as lubricant and matrix former. It hardens suppository formulations and adjust their melting points.

Kolliwax^® S Fine can be used for various oral solid as well as semi-solid dosage forms: It can be used as a lubricant in oral dosage forms, matrix forming agent in sustained-release dosage forms, emulsifying and solubilizing agent in topical formulations and hardening agent in glycerin suppositories. Kolliwax^® S Fine is particularly suitable for sensitive APIs.

Ludiflash^® is an all-in-one solution: filler, binder, and disintegrant that provides tablets with exceptional hardness and low friabilit, while giving your ODT an outstandingly creamy mouthfeel. It lowers storage and analytical costs and accelerates product development and process validation. Tableting is possible with any conventional equipment and any preferred packaging type. Ludiflash^® enhances the cohesion with API‘s and is compatible with many typical ingredients in standard formulations.

Ludipress^® – a granulate that means quicker, easier, and more cost-effective tableting. With Ludipress^®, you save precious time on developing, analyzing and blending. You simply add your active ingredient, a lubricant, and compress your tablets. It is that easy.

A ready-to-use direct compression solution for lozenges, chewables and effervescent tablet.

With its excellent capability to form solid solutions, Soluplus^® is suitable for innovative processing technologies, such as hot melt extrusion. Soluplus^® was awarded with the CPhI Silver Innovation Award in 2010.

Orally disintegrating tablets (ODT), are an innovative solid oral dosage form that is becoming more and more important in the pharmaceutical market, both for prescription and over-the-counter medications. In contrast to classical tablets, ODTs are specifically designed to disintegrate directly in the patient's mouth.