Colorcon® offers a wide range of film coating products, many of which can be formulated specifically for your application and regulatory requirements. Whether the desired function for your tablet or particulate is immediate release, delayed (enteric) release and/or extended (controlled) release, we have the tablet film coating technology needed to enhance, protect, and modify the functionality of your product.
Immediate Release – A distinctive product appearance offers many benefits to the producers and marketers of pharmaceutical tablets and nutritional supplements. Film coating is the most economical method of enhancing your product – improving visual appearance, as well as easing swallowability, and enhancing the taste and masking objectionable odors. Colorcon film coatings can impart mechanical integrity, color, gloss, pearlescence or moisture protection to create an immediate release tablet that is both memorable and effective.
Extended Release – Colorcon manufactures and represents extended release coating systems derived from one of the most popular and regulatory accepted polymers in the pharmaceutical industry, ethylcellulose. Application of an ethylcellulose film from aqueous dispersion or organic solution provides the formulator the means to control the release of drug from a tablet or multiparticulate via diffusion of the drug through the ethylcellulose film. Novel means of controlled release can also be achieved using a combination of Colorcon's modified release coating systems.
Delayed Release – Our enteric/delayed release products can help you deliver a final product that saves you development, scale-up and production time while assuring the integrity of the coating for the safety and efficacy of your finished dosage form. Various systems are available based on a variety of delayed release polymers for aqueous or organic processing to provide targeted release at various pH conditions.
For the solid dosage manufacturer, tablet film coating technology conveys many benefits including improved packaging efficiency, prevention of cross contamination and reduced tablet breakage and chipping. And with a large variety of pigmented and non-pigmented tablet film coating systems available, you can coat your products in a color of your choice with a cost-effective coating that can also provide protection from light, moisture and environmental gases. We back our film coating technology with world-class color customization support that can help to create a unique and elegant tablet image exactly to your specifications.
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