Colorcon - Starch 1500® Flexibility For Performance

Colorcon is a world leading provider of pharmaceutical technologies and a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for related industries. Starch 1500^® is a proven product that saves you time in the development process. Designed specifically for use in the formulation of solid dosage forms, this multifunctional excipient offers time-tested reliability. Unique synergy with many common ingredients promotes stability and formulation flexibility, helps increase speed to market and reduces costs. Manufactured exclusively for the global pharmaceutical market and backed by industry leading technical expertise, Starch 1500 can improve your formulation and lower your costs.

The exceptional functional properties of Starch 1500 can be utilized effectively in numerous processing methods, including direct compaction, wet granulation and capsule filling.

WET AND DRY BINDING CAPABILITY

Starch 1500 functions as both a wet and dry binder to allow process flexibility. In direct compression, it enhances the functionality of other excipients to produce tablets with excellent hardness and low friability. In wet granulation applications, eliminating the preparation of typical binder solutions can reduce the process cost.

DISINTEGRANT PROPERTIES

Starch 1500 provides effective disintegration and eliminates the need for costly super disintegrants, which can reduce film coating quality.

FLOW AID

Starch 1500 provides excellent flow properties, demanded by today's high-speed tableting equipment; ensuring that manufacturers can produce tablets with consistent uniform weight and drug content.

SELF LUBRICANT

The high inherent lubricity of Starch 1500 enables the formulator to lower the levels of traditional lubricants, which can cause dissolution and compaction problems as well as poor film coating quality.

CAPSULE PLUG FORMATION

Starch 1500 improves uniformity of capsule fill, facilitates plug formation and reduces powder fall out when the plug is transferred. The inherent lubricity leads to reduced wear on equipment.

NOVEL APPLICATIONS

Starch 1500 provides benefits to other novel applications such as supporting long-term stability of moisture sensitive actives and providing superior drug uniformity for low dose formulations. In addition, it can improve the flow properties of HPMC controlled release matrix formulations and improve coating performance and productivity of film coating operations.