BASF opens new applications laboratory in Mumbai

Germany's BASF has opened an applications laboratory for pharmaceutical excipients and active ingredients in Mumbai, India. The new facility is provided with state-of-the-art equipment allowing all the production processes that are relevant for solid dosage forms - such as granulation, tabletting and coating - to be carried out. In addition, the laboratory has a wide range of measuring equipment, which can be used to analyze fundamental parameters within the processes. Finished tablets can also be tested for friability, dissolution, disintegration or color deviations. The firm says customers will be allowed to work on site to acquire relevant application knowledge and take trial products back to their companies.