Nutragel - Softgel Contract Development, Manufacturing and Packaging

Pharmagel has been the world’s leading company in softgel technology since 1960. Nutragel, a new division, was born to satisfy the strong market demand for a complete softgel contract manufacturing service, able to provide qualified studies and new product development (R&D), pilot batch preparation, industrialisation processes up to final packaging, and presentation, all according to customer requirements.

Formulation and trial service for soft gelatine capsules

Nutragel can meet customer requirements with managed development programmes for a wide range of products, from conventional to unique, with value-added softgel technology. The main steps of the Nutragel formulation and trial process are:

• Feasibility study and development
• Pre-formulation
• Encapsulation trial
• Pilot scale-up batch

Nutragel’s aim is to continuously develop new softgel product concepts and technological solutions to grant its customers a top position in the worldwide nutritional market.

Softgels for improved absorption and bioavailability

Compared with many other dosage forms, softgels offer better protection of active ingredients. Thanks to rapid action due to short disintegration time, the softgel delivery system also enhances bioavailability. In this way it’s possible to reduce the dose that needs to be administrated to achieve therapeutic effectiveness - often saving cost and reducing side effects.

Accurate sealing of liquids, semi-liquids, solutions, suspensions and gels

Softgels are made by an efficient, continuous process in which they are filled and sealed simultaneously rather than having to be filled as a separate operation in a batch process. It is possible to seal liquids, semi-liquids, solutions, suspensions and gels with overall accuracy of 0.5%-2% inside the capsule shell.

Softgel oral dose form

Softgels are the most sophisticated oral dose form on the market (available in chewable application too), but they can be also excellently employed in cosmetics or as suppositories and vaginal pessaries.

Since a wide variety of sizes and shapes is available, unit dosages can also be readily designed for animal health care.

Size, shape and colour can be customised to satisfy the customer’s technical need or marketing strategy: in this field, the customer will find in Nutragel the ideal partner and advisor to identify the best solution to all possible issues.

Softgel encapsulation lines

Thanks to Pharmagel technology provision, Nutragel can rely on the latest high-productivity encapsulation lines, with top-level cGMP and production processes comparable to the most highly qualified pharmaceutical examples worldwide.

Current Nutragel capacity is about one billion capsules per year, and can be increased in a modular way according to market requests.

About Nutragel

Nutragel is a young company built on the strong experience of Pharmagel, which offers the best possible synergy between generational continuity and technological innovation, throughout the worldwide nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industry.

Thanks to Nutragel knowledge and to the unsurpassed advantages of softgel technology, customers can benefit from:

• Competent support for innovative product development
• Complete lines of nutritional supplements, herbal and VMS products
• Compilation of the documentation required by entities and territory government
• Supply chain management (process control, planning, purchasing and distribution)
• Packaging studies and tests regarding conformity with current legislation
• Highly qualified technical customer service (for products, raw materials and processes)