In 1998, Pharma Polymers established branches in Asia. The current hub of the company’s activities in this region is the laboratory in Shanghai, dedicated in 2004 under the auspices of the new Degussa Technical Center Shanghai. Our service involves working in direct proximity to customers, as do our other Asian labs in Tokyo, Japan, and Mumbai, India.

At the China lab, we offer our customers in Asia/ Pacific a complete technical service package. We provide a

tailormade solution for all application tasks involving EUDRAGIT^®. This includes:

• initial trials at the lab together with customers and support for subsequent trials at customers’ labs
• first scale-up and technical assistance during first production batch
• continuous support after production launch

It is part of our business philosophy to assist our customers in troubleshooting, analytical testing and follow-up service. In China, at the leading lab in the Asian region,we offer both application service and support for larger customer projects. We provide this service to our customers in S.E.Asia, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.

Equipment:

• Fluid-bed system: capacity 1-1.5 kg, top spray, bottom spray (Wurster regional supplier)
• Coating pan: Walter coating equipment, capacity 10 kg; coating pan, capacity 1-2 kg (regional suppliers)
• Granulators: rapid granule mixer (regional supplier)
• Tablet presses: (8 stations, regional supplier)
• Mini fluid-bed system: capacity 50-100 g regional supplier)
• Fully perforated pan coater: capacity 3-10 kg O’Hara)
• Analytical instruments: tester for dissolution, disintegration, friability, hardness, photometer, optical microscopy and HPLC