15. March 2016

Daicel FineChem Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has launched DiSPERZiSTA: State of the Art orally dispersible excipient system for food supplement tablets. DiSPERZiSTA is a co-processed excipient designed to achieve compatibility with both high tablet hardness and rapid disintegration by the direct compression method of tablet production. With this excipient, simply by adding the functional ingredients, sweeteners, flavorings and lubricants, tablets can be produced by direct compression.Due...

04. March 2016

Developing orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs) is a worldwide trend, but it’s particularly popular in Japan, where formulators at innovator companies, generic drug companies, and contract manufacturers compete to develop new ODTs. In fact, Japan accounts for the largest share of ODTs in the world [1]. Traditionally, manufacturing ODTs was a wet process that required special manufacturing equipment. Lyophilization is one example. In recent years, however, new excipients and excipient blends...