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Signet, the leading distributor of pharmaceutical excipients in India along with its principal partners IFF and Meggle, a global leader in cellulose-based products and lactose respectively, organized technical seminars to highlight the importance of high quality manufacturing.
The seminar between November 22-24, 2022 in Hyderabad served to be an interactive platform for technical discussion between 10 eminent speakers and over 200 attendees across the pharmaceutical industry.
Speakers from IFF included Dr. Rina Chokshi, global commercial marketing director who explained how operational excellence at IFF has helped in manufacturing of superior quality Avicel and Ac-Di-Sol grades with utmost consistency.
Paula Garcia Todd, Global Applications, Development and Innovation Leader, IFF and Vinay Muley, R&D leader, Pharma Solutions, IFF India, apprised on current updates on nitrosamines.
Dr. Tejas Gunjikar, South Asia, Pharma Application & Innovation Leader, IFF India and Dr. Sangamesh Torne, Application Development and Innovation Manager, IFF India shared their insight on use of alginates as a release modifier for sustained release application.
Dr. Heeshma Shah, director – Technical Services, Signet Excipients spoke on efficacy of Avicel SMCC in resolving critical formulation concerns like tablet compressibility, content uniformity and improvement of hardness.
Signet is associated with 22 leading excipient manufacturers from the USA, Europe & Japan offering a one-stop-shop solution with over 450 products in its portfolio.
Speakers from Meggle included Dr. Sonja Bauhuber, Application Manager who elaborated on concept on continuous manufacturing and its benefit. She also briefed on deformation behaviour of various excipients that largely impact tablet characteristics.
Pawan Zade, regional manager – South Asia and Prasad Gunjal, Technical Application Manager explained advantages of lactose as an excipient in wet granulation and direct compression process and highlighted on selection of right grade of lactose based on formulation process.
With a positive feedback received from participants, the sessions proved to be a successful medium for knowledge exchange, said the company.
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