About two-thirds of all medications are dispensed as oral solid dosage forms (OSDFs), and half of these OSDFs are tablets. DuPont pioneered several excipients used in the formulation of tablets, and today 1 of every 3 tablets produced contain our ingredients.

While they look simple and elegant, tablets are complex API pharma formulations that need excipients to serve various functionalities:

• Binders/Compression aid
• Disintegrants/Superdisintegrants
• Rate modifying polymers
• Lubricants
• Anti-adherents/Glidants
• Wetting/Surface active agents
• Colors/Pigments
• Flavors/Sweeteners
• Taste-Masking agents

Our broad and unique portfolio provides all those attributes. As the first supplier to ever develop leading tablet excipients, we’ve honed a deep experience over decades to ensure your tablet formulations in the OSD process are successful. The choice of excipients depends on the API, the tablet type, the desired release profile, and the manufacturing process.

• In immediate release, the drug needs to dissolve in a very short time; specific functional tablets could include chewable, orally disintegrated, sublingual or buccal tablets.
• Modified release takes place over a longer period to reduce drug side effects and improve patient compliance. This includes matrix tablets, osmotic pump tablets, and tablets coated with rate modifying film forming polymers.
   

Benefits of Tablets:

• Tablet dosage forms provide accurate, stable dosing with precision and low dose to dose variability.
• Provide improved API stability with respect to physical, chemical and microbiological attributes.
• Comparatively low manufacturing cost and can easily manufacture at large scale and production rate  
• Tablet size and shape can be easily modified to enhance patient identification and compliance
• Offer variety of added functionality such as chewable tablets, taste masking, and modified release

Here’s how we can deliver the functionality and variety you need for formulation of tablets:

Conventional Tablet Formulation 

Types of Tablets Based on Drug Release

Application Areas

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