Formulation and Technology Centers: Your Partners for Excellence in Formulation Development
Navigating the complexities of formulation development can be challenging, with many obstacles – such as API stability, release kinetics, bioavailability limitations and poor API solubility – on your path to market.
Our SAFC® Formulation and Technology Centers provide tailored solutions and customized development services for your formulations.
With our advanced technologies, innovative excipients and extensive expertise, we're here to support your projects at every stage of the product life cycle.
Formulation Excellence. Tailored for You.
We are your trusted partner to tackle any formulation challenge. Our R&D experts specialize in generic product development and troubleshooting to enhance solubility, improve content uniformity, overcome stability challenges, and improve the dissolution profile of your formulation. We will help you select the ideal excipients for your drug development and support you with proof of concept, application studies as well as tailored process optimization to facilitate scale-up.
Let’s collaborate to solve your toughest formulation challenges and advance innovation.
Formulation Support Committed to Deliver Successful Results
We offer tailored formulation support and consultation through R&D teams with extensive knowledge in formulation development. Our aim is to be your trusted partner and clear up any obstacles that block your path to market success. Our Promise to you: We only charge you if we deliver successful results.
Find more information on our service process in our brochure “Your Partner in Formulation Excellence”.
Close Collaboration with Our R&D Sites
We understand that the key to success is close collaboration. By joining hands and combining our expertise with your know-how, we can offer cutting edge formulation development solutions to help you bring medicines to patients faster and in a more effective way.
That’s why we offer formulation development services in three major locations close to you: Our Formulation and Technology Development Center in Darmstadt, as well as our Formulation and Technology Centers in Shanghai and Mumbai – making collaboration and communication easy.
Discover the Comprehensive Capabilities of Our Formulation and Technology Centers
Our Formulation and Technology Centers provide tailor-made solutions for your formulation development and consultation to advance your solid dose formulations.
Key technologies:
- Direct compression
- Wet granulation
- Inorganic drug carrier loading
- Hot melt extrusion
- Spray drying
Dosage forms:
- Tablets (ODT, SR, IR, coated and dispersible)
- Minitablets
- Orodispersible films (ODFs)
- Powders for reconstitution
- Capsules
Analytics:
- All standard galenic characterizations
- Basic and advanced solid dispersion tests
- Disintegration, dissolution, solubility testing
- Real-time and accelerated stability studies
Facility:
- Small molecule, with restrictions for hormones, oncological and highly potent drugs (EHS evaluation)
- Non-GMP
Functional Excipients Available at Your Fingertips
Our services are backed up by our comprehensive excipient portfolio, designed to solve challenges in formulation development. We offer high-quality excipients, including high-performing fillers and binders, vegetable-origin lubricants, high-intensity sweeteners and other essential ingredients.
Whenever you need exceptional performance in solid formulations, you can rely on our Parteck® excipient portfolio. These excipients feature unique particle properties that simplify formulation design and address common formulation challenges such as processability, solubility enhancement and controlled release
Experience the difference with our Parteck® portfolio, where intelligent formulation becomes an easy task.
Comprehensive Information to Accelerate your Risk Assessment with the Emprove® Program
At the heart of what we do lies our commitment to quality and expertise. We are aware that ensuring the compliance of your final drug product requires the compilation of a vast amount of data, which can be time- and resource-intensive. To support you in your risk assessment efforts and regulatory filing, our high-quality excipient portfolio is complemented with reliable technical, regulatory, and supply information: Elemental Impurities Information, Material Qualification Dossier, Quality Management Dossier, and Operational Excellence Dossier as part of our Emprove® Program – accessible 24/7 through our Emprove® Suite.
Explore Our Comprehensive Work Packages for Solid Formulation Development
Our formulation support offers various service packages that you can choose from depending on your individual needs:
- The Basic package supports you with pre-formulation studies, formulation prototypes, method development and process optimization.
- The Advanced package includes comprehensive Design of Experiments (DOE), dissolution, and stability testing in addition to all deliverables from the BASIC package.
- The Solubility package aims to enhance your API’s solubility including comprehensive formulation development and testing services using various solubility enhancement approaches.
Detailed overview of all service packages and deliverables:
Whenever you need formulation support or expert advice, please reach out to us. The R&D scientists in our three Formulation and Technology Centers are ready to support you with tailored formulation development, troubleshooting services and consultation. We are looking forward to advancing your formulations together!
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Related Resources
- Brochure: Formulation and Technology Centers–Your partner in formulation excellence
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