Coating

Coating

Coatings can be applied on tablets for several reasons: tastemasking,patient comfort, improving visual aspect, protection of active ingredients against moisture and temperature, delayed release of active ingredients, … The above effects can be obtained by film and enteric coating. Based upon customers’ requests, synthetic or natural coating ingredients can be used.

As Wolfs has a lab-scale coater, we are able to test and develop the most ideal coating suited for the product in a rapid and cost efficient manner, before applying the coating process on full production scale.

An enteric coating is a barrier applied on tablets to prevent its dissolution or disintegration in the gastric environment.This type of coating is hence also an effective method to obtain supplement targeting

Benefits

  • Enteric coating
  • Patient comfort
  • Taste masking
  • Delayed release

Non functional coatings

Non functional “standard” coatings improve:

  • the general product appearance
  • the ease to swallow for patient convenience
  • dustforming on the tablet when packed in canst
  • taste masking in case of certain active ingredients

Functional coatings

Functional coatings contribute to a specific product characteristic:

  • as a moisture barrier to improve the product shelflife
  • as an isolations of reactive ingredients (vitamins e.g.)
  • enteric coatings: prevents its dissolution or desintegration in the gastric environment