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Pharmaceutical ingredients

Whatever your formulation challenge, Eastman can help you find the right solution.

Reliable and effective products

Eastman offers a variety of ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry with a strong focus on excipients that result in reliable, consistent and effective products.

This includes biodegradable excipients derived from biobased resources such as cellulose or sucrose. Our products are made in highly controlled and reproducible processes with dedicated equipment, resulting in minimal batch-to-batch variations. This means your formulations will perform and behave the same over time.

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Decades of knowledge

Eastman is a trusted supplier with global production and sampling capabilities, cGMP-certified certified facilities and an unwavering commitment to safety, quality and compliance. Our scientists bring decades of technical and regulatory knowledge, and our novel ingredients enable the development of formulations that help the pharmaceutical industry adapt to evolving market trends and customer needs.

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Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs)

Our reliable APIs, including hydroquinone and glacial acetic acid, have a long-standing history in the pharmaceutical industry. They can help you achieve desired therapeutic effects and meet regulatory requirements.

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Solvents

Looking for technical expertise to guide your solvent selection for pharmaceutical manufacturing?

Our industry expertise can help you achieve successful and safe formulations that enable an efficient, viable manufacturing process. With a multiregional footprint and a reliable distributor supply, Eastman has a global reach to offer a variety of solvents, including ethyl acetate and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.

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Excipients

Our ingredients include Eastman BioSustane™ SAIB NF pharmaceutical excipient. With decades of experience in specialty excipients and in-house formulation capabilities, Eastman helps you develop new and better therapies.

We also offer cellulose acetate phthalate, cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate and excipients for osmotic pump coating, taste masking, sustained-release coatings and enteric coatings.