ISP Pharmaceuticals announced the launch of a new website – www.isppharmaceuticals.com - designed to help the pharmaceutical industry formulate and produce the next generation of oral solids, liquids, parenterals and ophthalmic dosage forms. The new site focuses on ISP excipient technology, featuring in-depth information on binders, disintegrants, coatings and drug solubilizers. In addition to product information, the site includes a “Tech Library” that formulators can use to retrieve technical brochures, presentations and published articles that document the performance of this broad range of technologies.

According to Ann Druffner, Sr. Marketing Manager, N.A. Pharmaceuticals, ISP launched the new site in support of pharmaceutical scientists who want immediate access to technical work and product information that can help them move faster on projects. “In the pharmaceutical laboratory environment, scientists need answers quickly,” she said. ”Our new website provides pharmaceutical scientists with immediate access to the resources, technical information and technical solutions required for the highest probability of formulation success the first time,” she added.

Ask the Expert
Given the variety of excipients and coatings technologies available to the pharmaceuticals industry today, it can be a challenge for pharmaceutical scientists to choose products that work best in a specific formulation. The ‘Ask the Expert’ page at isppharmaceuticals.com makes it easy for the scientists in the lab to find answers to their excipient and formulation questions, such as excipient selection and use levels, and other more complicated formulation-dependent recommendations. ISP scientists such as Dr. Tim Bee, Dr. Stuart Porter and Wayne Camarco can answer questions based on over 50 years of combined experience with polymer science, coating formulations and applications, granulation and tableting. ISP Pharmaceuticals has over 40 scientists dedicated to the pharmaceutical business working in nine technical centers around the world to provide technical support.

ISP Pharmaceutical Product LinesIncluded in the all-new website is product information for commercially-available excipients, coatings and drug solubilizer technologies that ISP sells to the pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries. Pharmaceutical scientists can find very detailed information that describes, for example, how products like Polyplasdone® crospovidones enhance the rate and extent of dissolution of poorly soluble drugs and is a highly effective disintegrant for direct-compression orally disintegrating tablet applications. Within the coatings products section, ISP outlines in detail the science of its Advantia® Coatings Systems, using the results of statistical design of experiments (D.o.E.) to create specific coating formulations for a specific tablet core. The website also includes significant details about Plasdone® povidones, which function as highly efficient wet granulation binders. For more information about the products, services and science behind ISP Pharmaceuticals product offerings, or to order product samples, visit isppharmaceuticals.com.