Capsugel Announce Expanding Technology Platforms in Europe

05 Oct 2016 --- Capsugel, a global leader in delivering high-quality, innovative dosage forms and solutions, have announced that it is expanding the technology platforms and capabilities at its product development and manufacturing sites in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Ploërmel and Strasbourg, France.

Amit Patel, Sr. Vice President and President, Dosage Forms, Capsugel, said, “We have taken several of Capsugel’s proprietary technology platforms that have demonstrated advantages with customer product development programs and begun implementing them across multiple sites in our global network.”

“This expansion and standardization of our offerings throughout our network allows us to better serve a wider range of customers in more locations, which can help them accelerate speed to market, minimize costs and experience enhanced service levels.”

As part of the expansions, Capsugel is installing a proprietary spray-drying unit at its Ploërmel facility later this year to complement the industry-leading technology, expertise and formulation capabilities pioneered at its Bend, Ore. facility in the U.S.

The company also has bolstered the Ploërmel facility’s micro-dosing service offering for early-phase feasibility work with the addition of the latest generation of its proprietary Xcelodose 600S Precision Micro-Dosing System. The system provides expanded capacity and industry-leading powder-in-capsule expertise leveraging the best practices established at Capsugel’s operations in Tampa, Fla., in the U.S.

There are also plans to bring both its micro-dosing and spray-drying technologies to its Edinburgh location in 2017.

Additionally, to meet the increasing number of customers that require live biotherapeutics, including microbiomes, the company’s Strasbourg R&D facility, with specialized capabilities for the formulation of microbiome products, will open a new containment lab in the fourth quarter.

The move will also see the company expand commercial manufacturing capacity for lipid-based formulations (LBF) using liquid fill hard capsules (LFHC), softgels or lipid multi-particulates is now online at Capsugel’s Edinburgh and Ploërmel sites. Both facilities have expertise in manufacturing LBFs containing high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredients. LBF technologies are a key component in the company’s bioavailability enhancement offering.