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Gelatin and collagen solutions for hard capsules

Making hard capsules with gelatins. Filling hard capsules with collagen peptides.
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Making hard capsules with gelatin

Diverse challenges in the capsule industry have allowed new shell ingredients to break into the market. However, in the face of increasing demand for natural products, rising costs and the high importance of operational effectiveness, sophisticated fill formulations and stringent regulatory pressures, gelatin still offers a future-proof solution to meet these capsule challenges.

 

Rousselot pharmaceutical gelatin ensures a high-quality, reliable selection for this purpose. Designed to meet the requirements of the latest high-speed machinery, they are natural and high-performance solutions for hard capsules of any size or shape, enabling to encapsulate powders, liquids, and complex solid forms like capsule-in-capsule and pellet capsules, overcoming manufacturing challenges effectively.

Benefits

Why gelatin?

A clean label ingredient

  • Gelatin is an upcycled excipient and a natural protein

 

Optimal technical performance

  • Optimal dissolution rate
  • Mechanical resistance
  • Low brittleness
  • Limited oxygen permeability

 

Optimal API performance

  • Perfect protection of API against oxygen and light
  • Fully compatible with human tissues
  • Optimal API release

 

High operational effectiveness

  • Machinability
  • Reduced weight variations
  • Cost efficiency

 

Safe choice

  • Rousselot gelatins are fully compliant with the highest international standards
  • More than 100 analyses throughout Rousselot’s production process to ensure quality
More about our gelatin products

Filling hard capsules with collagen

Collagen peptides can easily be encapsulated into hard capsules, ensuring a dust-free profile and excellent flowability and compression. Colartix in particular, which with a daily dosage of only 1g is well suited to this type of dosage form.
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Peptan
Health benefits backed by science
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Peptinex & ProTake
For collagen/protein enriched formulation
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Colartix
All-in-one hydrolyzed cartilage matrix for joint care

Key facts

~30%

A popular choice

In 2023, hard capsules represented 30.7% of the global supplement launches

~9%

A robust upcoming growth

The global empty capsules market is anticipated to grow at over 9.3% from 2023 to 2028

~25%

Your supplier of choice

25% of capsules worldwide are sourced with Rousselot gelatin

Source: Innova Database

Source: Empty capsules market by Type - Markets and Markets-Global forecast to 2028

Source: Rousselot

Additional information

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What are gelatin capsules? And what are the alternatives?
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Choosing the right shell excipient to meet future capsule challenges.
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The importance of gelatin in pharmaceutical and medical applications.
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What is gelatin? Everything you need to know.