Roquette dives further into nutra-pharma niche
“To achieve such support requires a variety of the latest and most efficient lab equipment, some of which is rather rare, like the ‘Stylcam’ compression simulator,” saidPhilippe Lefevre from Roquette’s Application Development Centre for Food, Nutrition and Health.
“This kind of equipment covers the majority of solid forms and the different progressive galenic steps: Mixing, dry and wet granulation, compression and coating.”
Roquette said manufacturers could use laboratory, pilot, pre-production and production machinery.
Lefevre added: “All this enables us to acquire the necessary data and to treat them in real time, thereby deepening understanding of the formulation’s behaviour. While the customer can participate in the tests, the products require expert handling, both to ensure our expertise is put to good use and for reasons of safety, insurance and materials handling.”
