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SSB® 55 Pharma is the light-colored dewaxed Flake Shellac SSB® 55 Pharma FL is suitable for applications which require high purity raw materials. This special grade is manufactured from selected shellac raw materials (seed lac) by produced under the condition of the SSB® Flake Shellac refining process. This high quality product with excellent binding and film forming properties meets the requirements of international pharmacopeias (Ph.Eur. / USP ì JP – latest edition). SSB® 55 Pharma FL is physiologically harmless and biodegradable. It can be delivered as flakes, a fine powder and a ready to use solutions based on ethanol.

SSB® AQUAGOLD is an aqueous solution of an ammonium shellac salt without preservatives. Due to a special production process, a shelf life of 12 month can be guaranteed for SSB® AQUAGOLD in the original unopened packaging. SSB® 57 Pharma Flake Shellac, a high quality dewaxed orange shellac refined by the SSB Solvent Extraction Process, is the main ingredient. SSB® AQUAGOLD can be used as supplied or diluted with demineralised water. It can also be formulated with other polymers, additives or coloring agents. SSB® AQUAGOLD is suitable for coating applications (Pharma and Food) in perforated pans or fluid bed coaters or microencapsulation. Each batch is accompanied by a Certificate of Analysis (SSB), a Material Safety Data Sheet (SSB) and a Microbiological Examination of Non Sterile Products according to the current pharmacopeias (Ph.Eur. and USP).

SSB® DIVIDE CW FL is a light colored carnauba wax in flake form. It is a hard wax with a high melting point and a fine microcrystalline structure. It is compatible with nearly all natural and synthetic waxes and miscible in a molten state. It is used as a polishing agent for hard coated dragees, for tablets, sweets or dried fruits and vegetables as well as a separating agent for sweets and fine bakeries. It is further used for the consistency in chewing gums and as a fruit coating agent. As a pharmaceutical excipient it is used as a glazing agent especially for an easier swallowing of the tablets. For pharmaceutical dosage forms with a special release profile it is used as a hydrophobic binder, often in combination with other hydrophobic and hydrophilic binders. In ointments and lotions it is used to give the required consistency, in suppositories for hardness and to adjust the needed melting point.