Category: Pharmaceutical Products

Omyanutra® 300 from Omya

Omyanutra® 300 is a range of highly compactable porous mineral excipients that have been specifically developed for nutraceuticals. Omya is a global leader in the production of industrial minerals, and these new generation excipients help to overcome and facilitate the various challenges that formulators face when developing nutraceutical tablets. This unique range has a mechanical binding and higher mechanical stability and gives formulators the ability to form hard tablets at a low compression force.

OMYA

Making Pharmaceuticals UK 2023

In April, Chemlink Specialties joined Harke Pharma at Making Pharmaceuticals UK 2023, the leading UK pharmaceutical exhibition & conference. This year the event was held in Coventry and provided an excellent platform to bring together a wide range of exhibitors and delegates from across the pharmaceutical industry to discuss, showcase and learn about all things pharma.

Introducing Our New Pharma Principal: Omya

We’re pleased to welcome Omya to HARKE GROUP’s Life Sciences Division as one of our exciting new principals. Chemlink Specialities will offer the range of natural and functionalized Calcium Carbonates in the UK and Ireland. In this blog post, we’ll introduce you to the company and its current pharmaceutical and nutraceutical range and explain how you can request samples!

OMYA

SmartEx® Plus: a New Co-Processed Excipient for Oral Disintegration Tablets

SmartEx® Plus is an exciting new co-processed excipient that has been developed by Japanese chemical company Shin-Etsu to meet the increased demand for oral disintegration tablets (ODTs), with the added advantage that it offers excellent stability without compromising on disintegration time. Continue reading

Shin Etsu

Reducing nitrosamines in pharmaceutical formulations

There is growing concern over nitrosamines’ existence in pharmaceutical formulations. In this blog we explain the current issues with nitrosamines in pharmaceutical formulations, provide two possible solutions, and we also have a webinar on the topic coming up which you can request an invite for.

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Chemfield Shin Etsu

Plastic Packaging Tax

A £200 per tonne plastic tax will come into effect from the 1st April 2022 in the UK, what does it mean for our industry and how can we minimise the impact of this tax?Continue reading

Motusflex®: A New Carbomer Alternative from Clariant

Carbomers impart a silky feel to topical pharmaceutical formulations, but they do require neutralisation to do so. Chemlink are pleased to introduce a high-efficacy alternative to carbomers which require no neutrilisation, simply add to water!Continue reading

Alternatives To Titanium Dioxide

Last month the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) announced that titanium dioxide is no longer considered ‘safe’ for use as a food additive.

Beneo Nippon Talc

Oral-Dispersible-Tablet Formulation Challenges

On Weds 27^th May, Shilpa Mistry, our head of Pharma for UK and Ireland, delivered a webinar for Making Pharma on the challenges of formulating oral-dispersible-tablets (ODTs). In this blog we provide an overview of her presentation and the featured products for anyone who missed out on the webinar or who is looking for further details.

Beneo Daicel Shin Etsu

Register To Attend Shilpa Mistry’s ODT Formulation Webinar Now

On the 27th May our Head Of Pharma UK and Ireland, Shilpa Mistry, will be presenting a webinar in the latest series published by the team at Making Pharma.