Exhibitors at ResearchPharm® 2026
Agilent
Agilent is a leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, delivering innovative technology solutions that provide trusted answers to researchers’ most challenging scientific questions. The company generated revenue of $5.34 billion in fiscal year 2020 and employs 16,400 people worldwide. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com. To receive the latest Agilent news, please subscribe to the Agilent Newsroom. Follow Agilent on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
ARMOR PHARMA
Armor Pharma is part of the Savencia Group, a world-leading specialty cheese company. Armor Pharma was set-up in 2014 after completion of a purpose built manufacturing site for pharma-grade lactose. The pharma-lactose plant is based on more than 40 years of manufacturing experience serving the infant formula market with high quality lactose. Thanks to exceptional product quality and client service Armor Pharma is becoming an important actor in the business of pharmaceutical excipients. The manufacturing facility is EXCIPACT (GMP), ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 certified. Armor Pharma portfolio includes lactose monohydrate, lactose for direct compression and lactose for DPI.
Asahi Kasei Corporation
Asahi Kasei offers Ceolus™, a microcrystalline cellulose for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical applications, which is highly regarded for its high quality and performance derived from innovative particle morphology. Ceolus™ guarantees nitrite levels of 0.1 ppm or less in our current primary grades, with test results included in every Certificate of Analysis. The new manufactuing site has been operated since 2023 and we contribute to our clients' business by providing a stable supply of products.
BASF
BASF Pharma Solutions produces innovative excipients and active ingredients of outstanding quality and performance. With a global team of experienced industry specialists and digital solutions, such as the Virtual Pharma Assistants, BASF supports its customers in developing efficient, cost-effective and reliable formulations. Equipped with an in-depth understanding of multiple technologies and applications, BASF has the skills and resources to make drug manufacturing and drug delivery safer and more sustainable.
https://pharma.basf.com/
BENEO
BENEO is part of the Südzucker Group and a member of the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC). BENEO produces galenIQ™ (Isomalt Ph. Eur., USP-NF, JP), which is a water-soluble filler and binder. Derived from beet sugar, galenIQ™ has a sweetness and taste profile very similar to sucrose. Therefore, galenIQ™ is frequently used to improve the palatability of medicine.
galenIQ™ is available in different particle sizes and solubilities, which makes it the optimal choice for the formulation of oral solid dosage forms, such as chewable tablets, compressed lozenges, effervescents and oro-dispersible powders.
For more information, please visit www.galenIQ.com.
BIOGRUND GmbH
BIOGRUND specializes in solid oral dosage forms. We develop and produce excellent excipient premixes for film coating, tableting, capsule filling, sugar-coating and coloring. Customized and ready-to-use.
With our own production and sales locations in Germany, Switzerland, USA and Russia, we support our customers worldwide. Our customer-oriented approach offers support from development to production of solid oral dosage forms. Our products make an important contribution to improving oral dosage forms and making them safer and easier to take.
Bioneer A/S
Bioneer is a Danish specialty CRO with 40 years of experience in advancing pharma and biotech pipelines. We are pioneers in predictive in vitro models, including the Dynamic Gastriointestinal Model (DGM) – a validated simulator of the GI tract of human and animals used to assess drug release, dissolution, bioequivalence, and food effects. In parallel, our peptide and protein formulation services optimize solubility, stability, and delivery, from liquid to lyophilized formats. With state-of-the-art facilities and deep scientific expertise, Bioneer provides tailored solutions that accelerate development of oral and subcutaneous drug products.
ERWEKA GmbH
ERWEKA is a leading international manufacturer of testing equipment for the pharmaceutical industry. We supply equipment for tablet development and quality control testing to major pharmaceutical and life science companies, development and contract laboratories, and universities around the world. We offer the full range of solid dosage form testing equipment. Our customers have been relying on us for over 70 years and we are the manufacturer with the most comprehensive automation offering for performing the most common testing procedures according to the harmonized pharmacopoeias. ERWEKA customers around the world benefit from decades of experience and the technologies we have developed.
FREUND
Since 1964, The FREUND group has been a global leader of processing solutions for powders, particles, beads, pellets, tablets, and other solid materials for industries including pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, food, industrial, energy, and many more.
Applications include wet and dry granulation,drying, agglomerating, coatings, layering, instantizing, and densification.
A customized product lineup includes coating pan systems, fluid bed systems for granulation and drying, high shear granulators, roll compactors, spray dryers and powder handling equipment. We also offer automated process control systems to support these technologies.
Gattefossé
Since 1880, Gattefossé has developed and manufactured high-quality lipid excipients for human and animal health. Our oral excipients offer solubility/bioavailability enhancement, sustained release, lubrication, and taste-masking. We also provide solubilizers, penetration enhancers, emulsifiers, and viscosity enhancers for improved topical formulations, as well as suppository and pessary bases. All Gattefossé products are backed by comprehensive safety, quality, and regulatory documentation to support your formulation and manufacturing needs. To accelerate development, our team of highly trained experts offers hands-on support through four Technical Centers of Excellence located in France, China, India, and the United States.
Gerteis Maschinen + Processengineering AG
Gerteis, a Swiss manufacturer of advanced high-quality roller compactors, sets the standard in dry granulation in the pharamaceutical industry. The company's deep understanding of roller compaction, its precision in controlling process parameters and their superior mechanical designs supports pharmaceutical scientists for more than three decades.
Glatt
Glatt Pharmaceutical Services supports pharmaceutical and biotech companies through every stage of drug product development, from initial formulation design to large-scale commercial manufacturing. With expertise spanning early-stage development, including preclinical and clinical supply production, Glatt ensures seamless scalability while maintaining stringent quality standards. Leveraging advanced technologies like fluidized bed systems, spray granulation, and Wurster coating, Glatt specializes in creating tailored solutions for solubility enhancement, modified release, and other complex drug delivery challenges. Partnering with Glatt means access to end-to-end solutions designed to streamline the path from innovation to market.
GRACE GmbH
Through Grace’s unmatched innovation and collaboration, we provide pharmaceutical companies with expertise and specialty products. Built upon a 100-year history of exceeding customer expectations at every phase of the drug development process, Grace offers unmatched quality and reproducibility of our fine chemicals, chromatography resins, formulation excipients, and active ingredient delivery technologies.
GRANUTOOLS
Combining decades of experience in scientific instrumentation with fundamental research on powder characterization, Granutools instruments and services are here to help you with all processes and developments involving powders.
Granutools instruments are designed for accuracy, repeatability, and operator independence with strict initialization protocols and high levels of automation. Our equipment line has five instruments to address specifically your challenges: GranuFlow for vertical flow rates; GranuHeap for angle of repose and static cohesion; GranuDrum for cohesive index and dynamic properties; GranuPack for tapped density and packing dynamics; and the GranuCharge for electrostatic charges measurement.
IMCD Czech Republic s.r.o.
IMCD is a leading global distribution partner and formulator of speciality chemicals an ingredients.
imcd Pharmaceuticals has a network of eight dedicated Technical Centres and more than 350 sales and marketing ecperts around the globe. We supoort our custormers and partners at every stage of their product development cycle, from synthesis and extraction of active ingredients, right through to the final product. We serve as an end-to-end partner in the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, bioopharma, synthesis, and agrochemical sectors, to advancde ideas for a healthy future.
www.imcdgroup.com
IOI Oleo GmbH
IOI Oleo GmbH, a leading manufacturer of vegetable-based oleochemicals, produces lipid-based excipients and APIs for the pharmaceutical market. Manufactured in our EU cGMP-certified and U.S. FDA-approved facility, our sustainable raw materials deliver proven quality and unique performance. Our well-known brands include the MIGLYOL®, WITEPSOL®, SOFTISAN®, IMWITOR® and DYNASAN® product families.
Furthermore, IOI is offering lipid-based tailormade and innovative solutions for pharmaceutical functional excipients, APIs and DDS. The latest outcome of our R&D work are PG-esters as a new group of multi-functional excipients.
JRS Pharma GmbH & Co KG
JRS Pharma is a leading manufacturer of excipients, offering a complete portfolio of solutions for the global pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. Our excipient portfolio includes: high functionality excipients, binders, disintegrants, lubricants, functional fillers, thickeners, stabilizers, gelling agents, carriers and coatings.
KORSCH-MEDELPHARM
KORSCH is a global leader in tableting technology, offering innovative, tailor-made solutions from early R&D to full-scale production, ensuring that each client’s unique needs are met with precision and expertise.
By leveraging our extensive experience in the tableting industry and our deep understanding of production processes, formulators’ needs and technology, MEDELPHARM keeps creating new generations of STYL’One Compaction Simulators to expand possibilities for scientists, offering them the solutions they need to speed up their tableting development. With extensive knowledge gathered by scientists from our INNOVATION CENTERs and Science Lab, we provide support from formulation development to process optimization for all applications.
Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients
Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients is a global leader in capsule design, manufacturing, and encapsulation technology, dedicated to creating tailored solutions that help you deliver groundbreaking health products to market. Our commitment to innovation empowers pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies with high-quality products tailored to meet evolving market demands. As the proud provider of Capsugel® capsules, we offer an extensive portfolio that includes a wide range of hard empty capsules—both gelatin and plant-based—designed to optimize bioavailability and enhance product performance. Our innovation hub, Innovaform™ Accelerator, further enhances our capabilities by providing tailored formulation and encapsulation strategies that support clients throughout the entire development lifecycle.
www.capsugel.com/pharmaceutical-solutions/innovaform-accelerator
Lubrizol offers an array of pharmaceutical excipients for oral, topical and injectable applications. We combine in-depth understanding of drug delivery systems with a portfolio of specialty materials to provide application-specific solutions to simplify your development process, for both prescription and over-the-counter drug products.
www.lubrizol.com/de-DE/industries/healthcare/pharmaceuticals
MEGGLE Excipients
MEGGLE Excipients is a global leader in manufacturing lactose for the pharmaceutical industry. We offer a broad product portfolio of lactose excipients, coprocessed technologies and excipient contract manufacturing.
MEGGLE is a pioneer in co-processing technologies and developed highly functional excipients possessing unique qualities for directly compressible immediate and sustained release pharmaceutical solid dosage forms.
Products:
- Lactose monohydrate
- Anhydrous Lactose
- Co-Processed Excipients
- Lactose for Inhalation
- Lactose for lyophilization and parentral applications
- Tailor-made lactose products
Services:
- Spray drying
- Co-Processing
- Agglomeration
- Product Customization
MeltPrep GmbH
MeltPrep specializes in laboratory equipment for rapid and lossless prototyping of new dosage forms. Our Vacuum Compression Molding (VCM) technology facilitates formulation screening with mg-to-gram-scale sample molding, ensuring homogeneity directly from powders and eliminating air inclusions.
Providing solutions for a wide range of applications, including Hot Melt Extrusion (HME), Amorphous Solid Dispersions (ASD), and implant formulation screening, the VCM Platform stands out as a versatile tool for pharmaceutical innovation. In addition to a variety of standard sample sizes, it enables the molding of single prototypes to screen dosage forms with complex geometries using Free-D Molding and facilitates the production of precise filaments for FDM 3D printing through the VCM Filament Molder.
Visit our booth to explore our newest innovation: the MeltPrep Slider - quick and easy thermal analysis in minutes.
NextPharma
NextPharma is a leading European pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO) with a current footprint spanning five sites in Germany, two in France, one in the UK, one in Finland and one in Norway, and with healthcare logistics services in the DACH region. NextPharma supplies products globally, with eight of its ten sites FDA-approved. With expertise in solids, semi solids and non-sterile and sterile liquids, the company provides services from pharmaceutical development, clinical supplies, scale-up and process validation through to commercial manufacturing for a large range of dosage forms including tablets, capsules, granules, powders, pellets, gels, creams, sprays and syrups and a wide range of packaging solutions including blow-fill-seal, blisters, bottles, sachets, stick packs and tubes.
With the acquisition of two former Lonza sites in 2021 (Ploërmel, France and Edinburgh, UK), we added to our services lipid-based formulations as soft gel and Liquid-filled hard-shell for pharmaceutical, high potent, hormonal, and nutritional products. The site in Asker (Norway) was acquired in 2023 from Takeda and specialises in chewable tablets.
NISSO CHEMICAL EUROPE
NISSO CHEMICAL EUROPE GmbH (NCE) was founded in 1989 as a subsidiary of Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan. Based in Düsseldorf, NCE is able to respond swiftly and effectively to customer needs both in Europe and Africa.
NISSO HPC (Hydroxypropyl Cellulose) is one of the key products for NISSO Group. NCE distributes NISSO HPC to European, and African market, offering a wide range of viscosities and particle size formats for direct compression, roller compaction, wet granulation, extrusion, drug solubility enhancement, orodispersible tablets, controlled release matrices, and film coating applications. NISSO HPC is additives free, EP, USP/NF, and JP compliant. Latest new products are high viscosity non-GMO grades of NISSO HPC.
Physiolution
Physiolution is an innovative company focused on investigations of the dissolution of solid oral dosage forms under bio-relevant test conditions.
The cutting-edge test methods utilized by Physiolution GmbH are based on long experience in the fields of gastro-intestinal tract physiology and biopharmaceutical evaluation. The bio-relevant test devices realistically simulate the mechanistic and physico-chemical conditions that act on dosage forms during their gastro-intestinal passage and enable the evaluation of their biopharmaceutical safety and reliability.
The analytical services of Physiolution GmbH include pharmacopoeial dissolution testing, development and validation of analytical methods and procedures, biochemical characterisation of biomolecules and formulation of peptide drugs.
POWTECH TECHNOPHARM
POWTECH TECHNOPHARM is the international exhibition for technologies for processing powders, solids and liquids in Europe. In addition to mechanical, thermal and analytical processes, this also includes those that are combined with liquid or pasty materials and bulk solids processed together. With the addition of the TECHNOPHARM exhibition component, POWTECH TECHNOPHARM is now also dedicated to the GxP-compliant production of liquid, semi-solid and solid pharmaceuticals, in which solid products play a major role.
Immerse yourself in the world of the POWTECH TECHNOPHARM
Retsch GmbH
Retsch laboratory mills, sieving and assisting devices form the basis for representative and reproducible analysis results worldwide - a decisive contribution to quality control, research and development activities. Our passion for technological excellence and close customer proximity continues to shape our actions today and secures our global market leadership. In close dialogue with our custsomers and partners, we develop machines and application solutions that enable them to make progress and meet the highest standards of precision, ease of use, and safety.
As part of the Verder group we are proud to set standards in the field of laboratory and analysis technology together with our sister companies.
Roquette
Roquette Pharma aims to create a better and healthier future for generations to come by partnering with customers to solve the toughest challenges in drug delivery. Our mission is to support the development of life-saving treatments worldwide by providing safe ingredients and raw materials for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. We are a reliable and trusted drug delivery partner that pushes product development boundaries and offers a diverse portfolio of reliable excipients, active ingredients and APIs, combined with rigorous regulatory standards.
Rottendorf Pharma GmbH
Rottendorf Pharma is one of the leading contract developers and manufacturers (CDMO) in the field of oral solid dosage forms and has been active in manufacturing and packaging as well as formulation and analytical process development for the international pharmaceutical industry for more than 95 years. The company produces a wide variety of original and generic drugs each year. Our workforce includes more than 1,400 experienced and skilled employees, including many formulation scientists and technicians. Customers choose Rottendorf Pharma for its broad-based expertise and technical knowledge, competence in international regulatory requirements, high-quality standards, state-of-the-art facilities, and exceptional customer service.
SEPPIC
SEPPIC Human Health Division designs and develops innovative pharmaceutical excipients adapted to oral, topical and parenteral routes of administration. An expert in surfactants, polymers and formulations, Seppic offers ingredients ranging from film-coating agents to powdered solubilizers for tablets, injectable solubilizers and also polymers for dermo-pharmaceuticals. Combining the strength and resources of a large group with the energy and responsiveness of a small company, SEPPIC is equally dedicated to both customer care and product quality.
Shin-Etsu
This year, Shin-Etsu celebrates 100 years of production of cellulose derivatives at our site in Japan. Since then, we have expanded our product portfolio to offer multiple solutions for pharmaceutical applications including:
- L-HPC, a dual-functionality excipient that works as binder and disintegran
- PHARMACOAT® and TYLOPUR® (HPMC) as binder for granulation and film coating polymer
- METOLOSE SR® and TYLOPUR® SR(HPMC), hydrophilic matrix agent for sustained release applications
- Shin-Etsu AQOAT® (HPMCAS) and HPMCP, polymers for enteric coating application and solid dispersion
Visit us at our booth to discuss technical applications of our products.
SOTAX
The SOTAX Group, founded in 1973 in Switzerland, is a fast-growing leader in providing high-quality dissolution testing systems, automated sample preparation workstations for composite assay and content uniformity testing, and physical tablet testing instruments for the pharmaceutical industry throughout the world. Part of the product and service portfolio are also SOTAX Pharma Services (CRO), which are set in a US FDA-inspected facility with a cGMP-compliant environment with strict quality management processes. SOTAX’ scientific expertise paired with state-of-the-art instrumentation ensures best-in-class services and ease of regulatory compliance for all customers.
For more information visit www.sotax.com!
Stable Micro Systems
Stable Micro Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of materials testing instrumentation for over 30 years, will be displaying its revolutionary Powder Flow Analyser and Texture Analyser for controlled release applications. The instrument will provide an accurate and reliable method of measuring the flow characteristics of dry and wet powders.
The TA.XTPlus Texture Analyser can also measure the hardness of granules tablets or micro spheres, tablet disintegration and swelling and will perform mucoadhesion tests. Visit our stand for a revealing demonstration of these two products and discuss your testing requirements with our product specialists.
Syntegon Technology GmbH
Syntegon is a strategic partner for pharmaceutical and food companies, with 6,900 employees delivering innovative, sustainable solutions. Our integrated lines ensure safe, high-quality production and packaging of medicines and food products. With over 160 years of experience, 47 global locations, and annual sales of 1.6 billion euros in 2024, we offer seamless processes and comprehensive services. Our 1,500 R&D employees drive leading technologies, evidenced by 2,000 patents. We support the switch to alternative packaging and resource-conserving production processes.