BASF presents extensive portfolio of pharmaceutical ingredients and services at AAPS

FLORHAM PARK, NJ, October 4, 2012 – BASF will feature its broad range of pharmaceutical ingredients at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting, Oct. 14 to 18 at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Visitors to BASF booth 2015 will be able to learn about solutions delivered through six needs-based market platforms. Different solutions will be presented each day – the entire booth will change on a daily basis.

Monday, Oct. 15

Coatings platform - BASF’s Kollicoat^® portfolio offers a comprehensive range of coating polymers for instant release, protective/taste masking, and colored coatings for sustained and enteric coatings.

Orally disintegrating tablets (ODT) platform - BASF’s innovative excipients make it easier to take medication and increase compliance among at-risk groups because they disintegrate quickly and mask taste. The portfolio includes:

·         Kollicoat^® Smartseal 30 D, BASF’s latest innovation, which features outstanding taste-masking and ensures quick release of active ingredients in the stomach.

·         Ludiflash^®, a co-processed excipient formulation designed to achieve quick disintegration with outstanding, creamy mouth feel.

·         Kollidon^® CL-F and Kollidon CL-SF, which deliver necessary disintegration speed and provide excellent mouth feel.

Tuesday, Oct. 16

Solubilization platform - With an extensive product portfolio including Kollidon^® VA 64, Soluplus^®, Kolliphor^® solubilizers and Kollisolv^® co-solvents, BASF offers a versatile toolbox to address solubilization challenges for poorly water soluble and poorly bioavailable actives. This includes excipients that are specifically designed for preparing solid solutions and solid dispersions via hot melt extrusion and spray drying technologies, as well as lipid based solubilizers.

Soft gel platform - BASF solutions for soft gel applications include:

·         Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) such as Tretinoin, Isotretinoin, Ibuprofen, and highly concentrated Omega-3 fatty acids.

·         Excipients including Kollidon^® 12 and 17 PF crystal modifiers/inhibitors , Kollicoat^® enteric and moisture barrier coatings , Kolliphor^® liquid fill and solubilizers  and Kollisolv^® solvents and lubricants, such as high purity polyethylene glycols (PEGs) and high purity glycerol.

Wednesday, Oct. 17

Taste masking platform - Taste masking agents and stabilizers provide superior protection for tablets, pellet and particle formulations. Kollicoat^® Smartseal 30 D is the first water-based dispersion for taste masking and moisture barrier applications. It was developed to simplify and accelerate aqueous film coating operations, and opens new doors for formulating tablet, pellet, and particle coatings.

Kollicoat Smartseal 30 D is highly impermeable to water vapor, helping preserve the potency of sensitive active ingredients. The polymer is stable in saliva and specifically soluble in gastric juice. This ensures effective protection from unpleasant taste in the patient’s mouth and rapid release and onset of active ingredient action in the stomach.

Taste masking approaches for liquid formulations include Kolliphor^® P 188, Poloxamer 188, Kolliphor RH40 and Kollidon^® CL. BASF excipients provide solutions for taste masking bitter drug actives in solid oral and liquid dosage formulations. Target applications are in pediatric, geriatric and veterinary medicines.

Dermatology platform - BASF’s growing portfolio of dermatology and veterinary applications include sensory, mildness and APIs for acne treatment. BASF offers Kollicream^® emollients , Kolliwax^® consistency factors , Kollisolv^® solvents, and Kolliphor^® emulsifiers and solubilizers .

AAPS is an industry event that draws more than 10,000 attendees from the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on research and development.

About Nutrition & Health

BASF’s Nutrition & Health division develops, produces and markets a comprehensive range of products and services for the human and animal nutrition, pharmaceutical as well as flavor and fragrance industries. The division addresses customer needs and enhances consumers’ well-being and quality of life. Nutrition & Health provides the pharmaceutical industry with active ingredients such as caffeine and ibuprofen, as well as excipients and customized synthesis services. The division produces aroma ingredients such as citral and geraniol for the flavor and fragrance industry. Important human nutrition products are vitamins and carotenoids, plant sterols, emulsifiers and omega-3 fatty acids. Its feed additives such as vitamins, carotenoids and enzymes make Nutrition & Health a worldwide leader for the animal nutrition market.

About BASF

BASF Corporation, headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 16,000 employees in North America, and had sales of $20 billion in 2011. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.us.

BASF is the world’s leading chemical company: The Chemical Company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products and crop protection products to oil and gas. We combine economic success, social responsibility and environmental protection. Through science and innovation we enable our customers in almost all industries to meet the current and future needs of society. Our products and system solutions contribute to conserving resources, ensuring healthy food and nutrition and helping to improve the quality of life. We have summed up this contribution in our corporate purpose: We create chemistry for a sustainable future. BASF posted sales of about €73.5 billion in 2011 and had more than 111,000 employees as of the end of the year. Further information on BASF is available on the Internet at www.basf.com.

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