COLORCON

Film Coating Applications

Colorcon offers a wide range of film coating products, all of which can be formulated specifically for your application and regulatory requirements. Whether the desired function for your tablet or particulate is immediate release, enteric release and/or sustained release, we have the tablet film coating technology needed to enhance, protect, or meet the desired release profile.

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 – helping positively impact patient preference, differentiating your product's visual appearance, as well as improving the ability to swallow and masking objectionable tastes or odors. Colorcon film coatings impart mechanical integrity, color, gloss, pearlescence or moisture protection to create an immediate release tablet that is both effective and easily recognized by consumers.

Sustained 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.

Enteric Release

Colorcon’s enteric release products can help you deliver a final tablets, capsules or multiparticulates that save 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 enteric protection.

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 Colorcon’s film coating technology with world-class color customization support that can help to create a unique and elegant tablet image exactly to your specifications.