Product Profile of Methacrylic Acid based Coating Copolymer
Methacrylic Acid based Coating Copolymer is an anionic copolymer based on methacrylic acid and methyl methacrylate. The Coating Copolymer of model Titancoat - L 100 is insoluble in acids and pure water. Titan Pharma [India] Pvt Ltd. manufactures Methacrylic Acid based Coating Copolymer. Titan Pharma [India] Pvt Ltd offers a wide range of Pharmaceutical Raw materials, Drug Intermediates and Finished Formulations like pellets, compression granules, premixes and feed supplements. The Methacrylic Acid based Coating Copolymer becomes soluble in a neutral to weakly alkaline milieu by forming salts with alkalis, thus affording enteric film coatings which are soluble in intestinal juice.
Key Features of Methacrylic Acid based Coating Copolymer
- Colourless and transparent
- Made some what less brittle by the plasticizer contained therein.
- Insoluble in water, in buffer solutions below pH 5.0 and also in natural and artificial gastric juices.
- Soluble in the region of the digestive tract where the juices are neutral to weakly alkaline and in buffer solutions above pH 6.0.
- For resistance to gastric juice
- For resistance to gastric juice with delayed drug release in the intestines
- For isolation of incompatible ingredients
- To improve the keeping properties protection against moisture, light and air-coatings stable under tropical conditions
- To insulate hygroscopic cores
- To isolate porous cores
- For the production of film coatings for lozenges and troches
