Spectraease™

Spectraease™ solutions provide customers in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries with a customized color inclusion for excipients and coating systems that resolve cleaning, mottling, static, processing and inventory management challenges.

Sensient’s team of scientists develops a custom single Spectraease™ formulation benefiting:

• Raw material management
• Production efficiency
• Blending and end-product quality

Sensient’s Spectraease™ solutions allow you to do more with less:

• Fewer ingredients
• Reduce turnover time
• Equipment cleaning – alleviates laborious cleaning from scratches in equipment
• More accurate measurements
• Minimize waste
• Increase productivity
• Coat challenging cores
• Create difficult-to-attain effects

The Spectraease™ EN powdered two-box system is a novel, simple approach to targeted drug release for the pharmaceutical industry. Box 1 is comprised of surfactants, plasticizers, detackifiers and optional colors to include: clear, white, red, blue or yellow. Box 2 in the system includes the following two product variations:

SpectraEase EN-K – Pre-neutralized
To be used in conjunction with Kollicoat MAE 100P

SpectraEase EN-E – Without Neutralizer
To be used in conjunction with Eudragit L100-55

DIFFERENTIATING FEATURES

• Pre-formulated color system without polymer
• Simplifies operations
• Decreases error in weighing multiple components
• Decreases raw material inventory of multiple components
• Provides customers with Standard Colors for quick ease-of-use
• Customizable color
• Provides customers with their preferred choice of enteric Methacrylic acid polymer
• Easy-to-use 2-Box system (1:1)
• Use can be modified by the customer to achieve a desired controlled release
• Easy application and cleanup
• No bearding, sticking
• Smooth surface
• Excellent logo definition
• Provides effective stable enteric functionalities with fast dissolution in the upper bowel, based upon solubility above a pH of 5.5
• Conforms to both USP and EP guidelines for disintegration