Gelatin and collagen solutions for hard capsules
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.
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
Filling hard capsules with collagen
Key facts
~30%
A popular choice
~9%
A robust upcoming growth
~25%
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Source: Innova Database
Source: Empty capsules market by Type - Markets and Markets-Global forecast to 2028
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