Gattefossé provides innovative excipients and drug delivery solutions to health and beauty industries worldwide. With a service and distribution network that spans more than 60 countries, we ensure responsiveness to the pharmaceutical industry’s needs from both regional and global perspectives. We aim to simplify formulation decisions that minimize attrition rates and shorten the drug development path.
Company Background
The conviction that achieving an innovative edge bene ts all is rooted in the history of the Gattefossé enterprise since 1880. This vision is supported by our direct involvement in R&D and learning initiatives that foster knowledge sharing. Organizing the “Journées Galéniques de Saint-Rémy de Provence” scientific symposium since 1966, and sponsoring PharmSci 360 awards (AAPS) since the 1990’s are examples of such initiatives.
Products and Applications
Gattefossé excipients are globally established for safety and pharmaceutical qualifications. Their applications in drug development include lubricants for tablets; sustained/controlled release matrix formers; solubility and bioavailability enhancers; protective coatings or taste masking agents for actives; enhancers for skin penetration and permeation; emulsi ers for creams, lotions, and ointments; and carriers for suppository and vaginal pessaries.
Among our best known products are Compritol®, Labra l®, Gelucire®, Labrasol®, Capryol®, LauroglycolTM, and Suppocire® series.
Each excipient is designed to meet a unique set of formulation and functionality objectives while conforming to the highest safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
Services & Capabilities
We develop and share formulation technologies that are designed to transform lipid excipients into viable drug delivery systems. For existing drugs that could bene t from improved dosing, better patient compliance, or extension of product life cycle, we emphasize innovative formulation technologies. For new drug entities that suffer from solubility and bioavailability issues, we focus on guidance for pre-formulation decisions that may be combined with innovative drug delivery approaches.
Our Technical Centers of Excellence work closely with drug developers in the region, providing hands-on assistance to advance drug pipelines, speed up drug delivery projects, and essentially shorten drug development time. Free of charge services include solubility and compatibility screening, formulation characterization and ultimately development of prototype formulations for oral, topical, transdermal, and other routes of administration.
Markets Served
We serve customers worldwide with our Technical Centers of Excellence located in Europe, China, India and the USA.