Immediate Release Film Coating Systems for Tablets
Colorcon, the innovator and industry standard for one step, fully formulated film coating systems, offers a range of color-matched, custom pigmented or non-pigmented film coatings for immediate release solid dose applications. Our complete film coating systems produce elegant coatings on even the most challenging tablet cores and can be used in both aqueous and organic coating procedures.
An extensive selection of polymer blend formulations provide:
- Stable colors with batch-to-batch consistency
- Reduced coating process time
- Barriers for moisture sensitive, acid-labile, or bitter tasting actives
- Superior adhesion on difficult to coat cores
- Less stressful processing for heat sensitive, friable or high drug content ingredients
- Improved drug stability
- Sharper logo definition, even at higher weight gains
- Better gloss and smoothness compared to conventional film coatings
Aqueous film coating is the quickest and least expensive method to enhance your tablet appearance and, unlike other methods, will not affect dissolution or disintegration profiles. Our custom formulated, dry-blend systems contain polymers, plasticizers and pigments combined in easy-to-use dry powders which are rehydrated quickly and simply with water.
Colorcon also offers customized color selection and color matching of our immediate release tablet film coating products. The ingredients used are selected to meet the regulatory requirements of your application and target market.
Browse our product listings to learn more:
Opadry is Colorcon’s original, customized, one-step film coating system which combines polymer, plasticizer and pigment, as required, in a dry concentrate.…
Offering short process times and a superior film finish, the Opadry II product range consists of fully formulated dry blend systems for the aqueous film coating…
Process Adaptability for the Perfect Finish Opadry QX, quick and fleXible film coating, is setting new productivity, efficiency and appearance standards for…
Opadry® SGR is a high gloss, aqueous sugar film coating system that connects the art of conventional sugar coating with the science and automation of film…
Opadry amb II, high performance moisture barrier film coating, is the first fully formulated PVA-based immediate release system without polyethylene glycol…
Opadry fx is an aqueous film coating system designed to impart a pearlescent and lustrous finish which will help to create a unique appearance on a solid dosage…
Opadry® EZ, easy swallow film coating system dramatically improves tablet mobility, reducing the probability of sticking in the throat or esophagus. When…
Opalux is an opaque, aqueous, color dispersion in a concentrate of sucrose syrup. Formulated with lake and oxide pigments Opalux will produce an elegant…
To address recent concerns regarding the use of titanium dioxide (TiO2), Colorcon confirms that a range of alternative formulations using non-synthetic…
