The Pharma Polymers Technical Service Center, which has been operating for over 50 years, moved into new laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art pharmaceutical equipment and analytical facilities in 2001. These include a GMP facility for the production of clinical samples. The German head office, which has been positioned as a capable partner to the pharmaceutical industry for decades, can now offer an expanded range of services to customers worldwide.

Our lab is equipped to the latest standards in pharmaceutical technology for film coating, granulation, pelletization, tableting and melt extrusion. Our staff provides analytical testing and can assist customers in feasibility testing, development, and scale-up operations of various solid dosage forms under GMP and non-GMP conditions. Our goal is offering a developmental partnership from the first feasibility tests to the production of clinical trial samples. The advantage for our partner is faster product development and therefore reduced development costs.

Equipment:

• Fluid-bed system: for granulation, pelletizationand particle coating, capacity 0.5-7 kg, top, bottom and tangential spray, Wurster HScapacity 1-1.5 kg, top spray, bottom spray (Wurster regional supplier)
• Coating pans: for film coatings on tablets, hard and soft capsules, capacity 1-45 kg, conventional and perforated pan coaters
• Tablet presses: for single and multi-unit dosage forms, single punch press
• Extruder: melt extrusion, capcacity 0.3-5 kg/h
• Analytical instruments: tester for dissolution, disintegration, tablet hardness and friability, bulk and tapped density, sieve analysis, laser diffraction, SEM, HPLC and HPLC-MS, thermal analysis, MS, IR