Gelatin and collagen solutions for hard capsules

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

High quality

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.