Ideal Cures Pvt. Ltd. opened its new research centre and application lab in Goregaon, Mumbai recently. This centre will be bringing out innovative products for pharmaceutical industry and provide application support. It will be headed by Dr Ashok Omray, a veteran in the pharma industry, assisted by a highly qualified team of scientists.
According to Suresh Pareek, managing director “The centre has been established to serve the industry by way of introducing new excipients and film coating systems as well as to provide technical support to the customers for application of film coating systems,neutral spheres, pharma acrylic polymers and taste masking solutions.”
Ideal Cures Pvt Ltd. is one of the leading excipient manufacturer and technical service providers. Besides the application labs. at Vasai and Pachkulla, Ideal Cures also has fully functional application lab in Milan, Italy. Since Indian organizations dealing with pharmaceuticals, foods and dyes industry are undergoing globalization, they require a quick and easy access to support for world class products, feels Ideal Cures management.
The research centre and application lab in Mumbai is spread over 15,000 sq. feet of area, and is, equipped with the lab scale and scale-up facilities (machines, equipment and analytical instruments) to provide support for developing complete range of oral solid dosage forms. This includes tablets (all types), hard gelatin capsules, pellets, spheres, pharma acrylic polymers and modified release solid oral dosage forms.
Says Dr Omray “The centre is also geared to provide the formulation development and stability study facilities for pharmaceutical companies, who either do not have the complete R & D set up or for bigger companies who want to move the projects on fast pace.”
The novel set of equipment include spray dryer, Wurster coating – Pam Glatt 1.1 GPGC (bottom and top spray for powders, pellets and tablets), auto coaters for film coating with conventional and perforated pans from 200 g to 15 kg capacity, USP Type III dissolution rate test apparatus (in addition to regular ones), walk in chambers for stability studies with climatic conditions meeting the global regulatory requirements etc.
The centre has a team of highly qualified and experienced scientists, who are available to plan and execute the projects. Ideal Cures Pvt Ltd. field force and technical support team is available at the facility and customers’ manufacturing or research facilities for technical support, problem solving, demonstrations, providing support for upgrading the facilities and discussions to get input for future development and improvement.
Besides, company’s own projects in the field of film coating are ongoing. The company’s endeavour is to bring out innovative, economic, eco-friendly and cost cum productivity effective film coating solutions. The company has made great strides in the field of other ready to use excipients for pharmaceutical industry which include – acrylic polymers (for film coating and taste masking) neutral spheres for drug loading and extended cooling compounds.