AEROSIL® fumed silica for pharmaceuticals

Cost-effective and reliable manufacturing methods are an absolute must for today's pharmaceutical industry. This is just one reason fumed silica has become one of the most important and frequently used pharmaceutical excipients. Improving flow properties of starting materials required for modern tablet and capsule manufacture is just one example of the advantages gained by use of AEROSIL^® fumed silica. It can also considerably improve the manufacturing as well as properties of many other drug forms.

For most pharmaceutical applications a specific surface area of 200 m²/g is sufficient. The product AEROSIL^® 200 Pharma is intended specifically for the pharmaceutical industry, having been tested in accordance with the European, American and Japanese pharmacopoeias (Ph. Eur. and USP/NF) and being supplied with an appropriate certificate of analysis. For especially cohesive and poorly-flowing powders, we recommend the newest addition to our product line—hydrophobic AEROSIL^® R 972  Pharma—a hydrophobic grade that complies to the Ph. Eur. and USP/NF monographs for "Hydrophobic Colloidal Silica".