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Excipients for Drug Formulation

Softgel Shells — Design your release profile

Comprehensive portfolio of easy to process solutions for enteric and sustained release and moisture protection

The modification of the release profile of a soft gel capsule remains a challenging formulation task. BASF offers with its coating polymers various functional options such as enteric release or moisture protection. The BASF team knows best how to use our high quality coating polymers to enable you to formulate a soft gel capsule with exactly the desired release profile.

Benefits

  • Deep understanding of our polymers in coating application of softgels
  • Comprehensive portfolio of easy to proces coating solutions for enteric and sustained release and moisture protection
  • Customized solutions for the effective coatings of softgels to provide enteric sustained release and moisture protection
  • Technical and application service to develop coating formulation and process for successful commercialization

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Discover our functional products for softgel shell formulation

Kollicoat® IR

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.

Kollicoat® Protect

Effective and reliable moisture protection for your active ingredients

Kollicoat® Smartseal 30 D

Breaking new ground in taste masking and moisture protection

Kollicoat® SR 30 D

Precise, pH-independent sustained release for multiple applications

Kollisolv® MCT 70

Medium chain triglyceride compatible with fat-soluble vitamins, actives and essential oils

Kollisolv® PEG 300

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

Kollisolv® PEG 400

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

Kolliwax® HCO

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.

Kolliwax® SA Fine

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

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.

Related Functionalities

Lubrication

With it's Kollisolv® product range BASF offers high quality lubricants to smoothen softgel production.

Polymers for the shell

Easy to process coating solutions for enteric and sustained release and moisture protection

Related Solution Platforms

Instant & Modified Release Platform

BASFs rich portfolio of instant and modified release solutions offers an unprecedented range of functionality.

Softgels Platform

Functional solutions for all soft gel parts – fill, shell and coating.