Lonza Capsugel

We provide high-quality Capsugel® capsules and innovative solutions for drug delivery and inhalation. Our expertise supports the optimization of formulations, offering tailored technologies and services to advance pharmaceutical and nutraceutical development worldwide. Our global network includes complete supply chain, regulatory, quality and application support to meet your needs with capsule manufacturing facilities in North America, Europe, India, China and Japan.

Product Overview

The Capsugel® capsule portfolio provides a wide variety of high-quality products and technologies to help you create a customized solution to bring new innovations to market.

Our broad capsule portfolio delivers highly functional and appealing products to extend your market reach. Whether it’s for a new product or extending the life of an existing one, our innovative Capsugel® capsules open the door to your next breakthrough health product.

Whether you need assistance in selecting the most suitable dosage forms for complex compounds or seek to distinguish your existing products, our team engages closely with you. We strive to identify the ideal dosage form that aligns seamlessly with your specific requirements, ensuring your products excel in both performance and market appeal.

Capsugel® DBcaps® Over-Encapsulation Capsule

DBcaps® Over-Encapsulation Capsules are developed with a tamper-evident and easy-to-swallow design to specifically address the clinical trial challenges without bias in double-blind tests.

Available as gelatin or HPMC capsules.

Capsugel® Zephyr® Inhalation Capsule

Capsugel® Zephyr® Inhalation Capsules offer consistent powder release, a customized approach to optimize performance of the end product. Expertly engineered to minimize powder retention, our capsules ensure the maximum amount of medication is delivered directly to the lungs.

We have compatibility studies available on a large selection of device principles and opening systems to provide optimal capsules.

Available in four polymer varieties including HPMC and gelatin-based capsules.

Capsugel® Coni-Snap® Sprinkle

To overcome challenges associated with pediatric and geriatric drug development, we offer Capsugel® Coni-Snap® Sprinkle, a patient-centric capsule specifically designed to meet the needs of those that have difficulty swallowing.

Complementary technologies and expertise have been involved to combine the benefits and flexibility of multi-particulate formulations, lipid-based technologies and capsule delivery.

Our Coni-Snap® Sprinkle capsules leverage these technologies to offer a convenient oral dosing option.

Capsugel® Press-Fit® and XPress-Fit® Gelcaps

A tablet core encased in two high-gloss gelatin shells.

Differentiate your innovation from the nutraceutical market with Capsugel® Press-Fit® and XPress-Fit® Gelcaps.

They offer a high-gloss gelatin cover for your health ingredients allowing a volume reduction from 26 to 40% compared to a regular Capsugel Coni Snap® Hard Empty Capsule, corresponding to an increased load for identical volume. Customize your brand and set them apart from the market.

Capsugel® Enprotect®

Capsugel® Enprotect® is a ready-to-use enteric capsule with acid resistance up to pH 6.0, eliminating the need for post-filling coating.

Building on the Capsugel® legacy of developing and launching new and innovative capsules, we have developed a first-of-its-kind manufacturing process.

The bi-layered capsule manufacturing technology allows target delivery of APIs to the distal small intestine without the need for post-filling coating excipients, which accelerates the drug manufacturing and development processes. They avoid exposure to heat and solvents to protect against degradation for some APIs. Now, a range of sizes and other tailored options can be developed to match your specific needs.

Capsugel® Plantcaps®

Plantcaps® capsules, a vegetarian capsule made from pullulan – naturally fermented from tapioca – for a more extensive and distinctive appeal to the booming and discerning healthy lifestyle market worldwide.

Plantcaps® capsules are the premium capsules designed for the needs of the growing and very discerning healthy lifestyle market.

Plantcaps® capsules provide the premier balance of performance and purity for healthy lifestyle consumers who are looking for naturally healthy attributes in the products they buy. Made from tapioca which is naturally fermented into pullulan, a starch-free vegetarian capsule, Plantcaps® capsules speak to the needs of the most discerning consumers.

Capsugel® PCcaps®

A simple way for pre-clinical oral administration of pharmaceutical actives and formulations to rodents.

PCcaps® Capsules facilitate the administration of early-phase formulations, whether powder or granules, paste, or non-aqueous liquids.

With PCcaps® Capsules, you can avoid the use of excipients that may be incompatible with actives or cause toxicity. PCcaps® Capsules prevent regurgitation and upper gastrointestinal tract irritation while providing the precise dose to rodents without using any excipients.

Capsugel® Colorista® | Color Capsules

Colorista® capsules are a single solution for pharmaceutical formulation development. They offer the ability to test for compatibility and stability before deciding on a color for commercial drug products. Colorista® capsules are the perfect tool for pharmaceutical customers who are looking for flexible and time-efficient development of new products or generics.

Capsugel® Colorista® technology can provide a shorter development time for your product while offering flexibility before the final commercial color and print decision is made. As part of our R&D offer, Colorista® offers 160 extractable colors in gelatin and 50 extractable colors in HPMC. It is a single solution for early-stage development support and compatibility testing before deciding on the final color for commercial drug products.

Capsugel® Vcaps® Plus Capsules

An immediate-release capsule with an excellent dissolution profile, low moisture content, great machineability and visual quality.

Capsugel® Vcaps® Plus Capsules are available in different designs, allowing solid as well as liquid formulations.

For solid fills, Coni-Snap® design, due to its unique locking closure, offers secure containment and reliable delivery.

For liquid fills, our Licaps® design allows traditional banding and cutting-edge sealing technologies, like LEMS® sealing technology, for leak-free containment while maintaining quality and reliability.

Choose from a wide array of color customization options to create a dosage form solution that meets your exact brand and product development needs.

Capsugel® DRcaps® HPMC Designed Release Capsules

Demonstrated to protect acid-sensitive ingredients from degradation in the stomach.

Capsugel® DRcaps® HPMC Designed Release Capsules can help protect dietary supplement ingredients from stomach acidity without the cost and complexity of adding acid-resistant properties during manufacturing.

DRcaps® capsules can also help mask taste and odor and reduce bad aftertaste without the addition of costly coatings.

Vcaps® Capsule

Vcaps® capsules are the first generation vegetarian capsules, meeting the needs of a wide variety of health-conscious consumers.

With both KO and OU Kosher and Halal certification, and certified by the Vegetarian and Vegan Action Society, they are an appealing way to address the preferences of an important growing group of supplement users who indicate that vegetarian source is important in their decision-making.

Capsugel® Vcaps® capsules are non-GMO Project verified, gluten-free and preservative-free—a clean-label product.

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Innovaform® Accelerator

Create customized, viable capsule-based delivery systems with the support of our Innovation and Formulation Center.

Your partner in oral and inhalation dosage formulation and delivery

Our bespoke service gives you full access to the formulation scientists and technology of Innovaform® Accelerator – our innovation hub for novel drug delivery systems. Through our expertise and technology platforms, we adapt formulation, capsules and encapsulation strategies to develop the delivery vehicle best suited to your API.

At the forefront of research into enteral drug delivery, our multidisciplinary team bring the latest scientific knowledge to your project. It’s how we help you to bring your innovative drug products to market faster and more efficiently, so they can start to make a positive impact in the world, sooner.

Solving the challenges of oral drug delivery

Accelerating innovation

Capsules can help increase patient compliance and enhance quality of life. However, for most new therapeutic modalities, solubility and absorption issues may lead to poor bioavailability. With Innovaform® Accelerator we offer the opportunity to collaborate to customize formulation, capsule properties and encapsulation process to bring a differentiated drug product to market.

Driven by our purpose to enable a healthier world, we welcome the opportunity to co-develop oral or inhalable dosage forms that enhance drug delivery, and can help make medicine more accessible to more people.

Capsule Innovation Academy

Join us for an onsite workshop to deepen your understanding of capsule technology and bioavailability enhancement with lipid-based formulations. In a nutshell: practical sessions in formulating and filling, network with scientists.

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Lonza Capsugel
Muenchensteinerstrasse 38
Basel, 4002
Switzerland