Specialty Excipients

Colorcon offers an enhanced portfolio of polymers for controlled release drug delivery systems along with application expertise to meet customers’ formulation needs and help speed their products to market.

To maintain potency, stability, and shelf life, pharmaceuticals and healthcare products often require highly protective and active packaging. Colorcon now provides critical industries with high-quality, controlled atmosphere packaging, so they can protect their products from moisture and oxygen.

Digital self-serve platform to boost R&D productivity through interactive formulation development.

Colorcon offers a wide range of film coating products, all of which can be formulated specifically for your application and regulatory requirements. Whether the desired function for your tablet or multiparticulate dosage is immediate release, enteric release and/or sustained release, we have the film coati...

Ready-formulated systems approach simplifies osmotic pump tablet development and manufacturing.
Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA, 16 April 2024, Colorcon, a world leader in the development and supply of film coating systems, specialty excipients, and functional packaging for the healthcare industries, launches Corelease OPL™ Controlled Release Osmotic Push Layer for osmotic pump tablets. This launch marks another innovative step in the company's commitment to advancing controlled release technologies for the pharmaceutical industry. 

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Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA, 23 January 2024. 

Colorcon, a world leader in the development and supply of film coating systems, specialty excipients, and functional packaging for the healthcare industries, announces the launch of a new Opadry® titanium dioxide (TiO2)-free film coating system for pharmaceutical tablets.

Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA, 5 th December 2023, Colorcon, a world leader in the development and supply of film coating systems, specialty excipients, and functional packaging for the healthcare industries, has consolidated its range of controlled release products under the new Corelease™ Controlled Release Formulated Systems brand. This launch marks a significant milestone in the company's commitment to advancing controlled-release technologies for the pharmaceutical industry. 

Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA, 2nd March 2023, Colorcon, Inc., a global leader in pharmaceutical film coatings and specialty excipients, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of Airnov Healthcare Packaging, Inc. from Arsenal Capital Partners. 

Atomwise technology removes the barriers of physical screening that have limited the success of traditional methods for small molecule drug discovery.

Customers in the region will have the opportunity to conduct laboratory-scale compression and coating trials, using automated coating equipment.

Acryl-EZE formulations provide significant time savings and targeted drug delivery.

The additional capacity will provide customers with shorter lead times and reduced transportation costs.