Flourishing demand for Animal Free Soft Gelatin Capsules Industry

A capsule is an oral dosage form for medicine in the form of a special capsule. They consist of a gelatin-based bowl that surrounds a liquid filling. Capsules are a combination of gelatin, water, an opacifying agent and a plasticizer such as glycerine or sorbitol.

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Some of the key players of Animal Free Soft Gelatin Capsules Industry:

Sirio Pharma, Captek, ProCaPs, Catalent, Capsugel, EuroCaps, Aenova, Amway, Patheon

Capsules are made in a process known as encapsulation using the Rotary Die Encapsulation process invented by Robert Pauli Scherer. The encapsulation process has been described as a form / fill / seal process. Two flat belts of shell material are made on the machine and brought together on a double set of rotating dies. The matrices contain cutouts of the desired size and shape that cut the tapes into a two-dimensional shape and form a seal on the outside.

At the same time, a pump delivers a precise dose of filler material through a nozzle that is built into a filler wedge, the tip of which sits at the cut-out point between the two bands between two die pockets. The wedge is heated to facilitate the sealing process. As a result of the wedge injection, the two flat bands expand into the die pockets, creating the three-dimensional end product. After encapsulation, the capsules are dried for two days to two weeks, depending on the product.