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Specialized Capsule Applications
What are the key chemical characteristics of your compound? Is there a targeted release profile? Will the route of administration be oral, pulmonary or vaginal? Let Capsugel help you identify the ideal dosage form based on your specific needs, formulation considerations and timelines. We are committed to help you to get your product to market in the most timely and cost effective manner.
Capsugel’s specialized capsules:
- Improve product effectiveness in terms of bioavailability, targeted release, enhanced and optimized PK profile and other important functionality
- Provide customized critical capsule parameters such as weight, water content
- Appeal to patients and consumers while optimizing compliance and convenience through taste and odor masking
- Provide custom engineered release profiles for consistent pulmonary drug delivery
- Increase ease of opening through specialized sprinkle designs to meet requirements of specific patient groups such as pediatric or geriatric populations
- Deliver innovative drug delivery forms for product differentiation, line-extensions and branding
- Provide dosage form solutions for highly potent compounds
- Offer specifically designed capsules for pre-clinical trials
- Secure the integrity of the blind in over-encapsulation for double-blind clinical trials
Product Development that Works for You
Capsugel helps our customers succeed by meeting target product profiles and addressing commercial and manufacturability goals. With over 100 years of experience in capsule and encapsulation technologies, Capsugel works with you from early stage development through production to deliver the product that you need.
Beyond capsules, we especially concentrate on a full array of services that will enable to shorten your development timelines:
- Fast Track R&D offer, including full library of R&D samples and fast track delivery of customized capsules for R&D stability trials
- Color selection assistance and priority Color Match Service
- Clinical Materials Supply
- Documentation and QbD support
- Proprietary laboratory scale equipment for both powder and liquid formulation
- Co-located product development and manufacturing teams with a full range of testing and specialized processing equipment to further speed products to clinic & market
By involving Capsugel at the very earliest stages of development, we can better assist you in identifying a suitable dosage form that will not only address current needs but also future considerations that may be overlooked. Capsugel’s Dosage Form Solutions business utilizes an array of proprietary technologies and specialized manufacturing capabilities including bioavailability enhancement, modified release, abuse deterrence, biotherapeutic processing, and inhalation formulation designed to help you succeed.