Polymer technology improves ready-to-use coatings

Coating group Colorcon has confirmed that it will ramp up production of fully formulated ready-to-use pharmaceutical coatings. In order to grow the portfolio, it plans to use BASF’s immediate release coating polymer, known as Kollicoat IR. 

“With this new ready-to-use coating option formulators can benefit from both the coating performance of Kollicoat IR and Colorcon’s worldwide unique, customised services”, said Daniele Piergentili, Vice President Global Marketing Pharma Ingredients at BASF.

“Kollicoat IR provides Colorcon with the capability to further expand our film coating portfolio, bringing more choice to our customers while providing customised solutions. We are pleased to cooperate with BASF to bring Kollicoat IR to a wider market, combining BASF’s polymer expertise with Colorcon’s knowledge of formulated film coating systems and our global reach,” said Cornelis van den Muyzenberg, VP of Sales and Business Development at Colorcon.

Kollicoat IR is an ethylene glycol and vinyl alcohol graft copolymer which can be processed at low temperatures on products with a high solids content.