Specialty excipients, made and stood behind
by ADCHEM
Built on ADCHEM's regional supply chain, pharmacopoeial documentation, and direct-to-customer technical support — the ADCHEM Brands portfolio gives manufacturers a price-competitive alternative to global brand-name excipients, backed by the same quality standard.
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Carbomers · Cross-Linked Polyacrylic Acid Polymers
CarboPrime
Cross-Linked Polyacrylic Acid Polymers for Versatile Formulation Systems
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Cellulose excipients · Solid dosage
ADCELL
High-performance Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) grades crafted to elevate your pharmaceutical and food formulations.
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Crospovidone
ADPOV
Premium Crospovidone XL /XL-10, a superior super disintegrant designed to enhance the performance of oral solid dosage forms, particularly for challenging applications
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Modified starches · SSG
ADSTAR
High-quality Sodium Starch Glycolate (SSG), a super disintegrant designed to enhance the disintegration of OSD's.
Own portfolio. Same standard.Regional supply.
Beyond representing world-class principals like Shin-Etsu, Vanderbilt, and Mibelle, ADCHEM has built its own portfolio of private-label specialty excipients and ingredient lines. These products give customers pricing flexibility, supply-chain continuity, and a way to source both branded principals and ADCHEM-owned alternatives through a single partner.
The ADCHEM Brands portfolio is not a cost compromise. Every grade is developed to compendial monograph specifications — USP/NF, Ph.Eur., BP — with the full documentation pack that regulated manufacturers require. The difference is margin efficiency and supply chain resilience, not quality.
"ADCHEM Brands gives our customers an alternative to the global excipient brands — with the same regulatory documentation, the same technical support, and in-region stock that doesn't depend on a single principal's shipping schedule."
Pharmacopoeial-grade quality
Compendial monographs (USP/NF, Ph.Eur., BP, JP, IP) supported across the relevant grades. Every batch tested to specification before release.
Complete documentation pack
COA, MSDS, regulatory dossier, country-of-origin declaration, and halal certification — supplied with every order as standard, automatically via COSMO.
Regional stock — three hubs
ADCHEM Brands inventory warehoused across the regional footprint — Dubai, Bergamo, and Lahore — for fast last-mile delivery to customer manufacturing plants.
Direct technical support
ADCHEM formulation specialists available for on-site or remote troubleshooting on every grade — grade selection, compatibility, stability screening, substitution guidance.
Pricing flexibility
ADCHEM Brands grades are positioned as cost-competitive alternatives to global brand names — enabling high-volume generic and OTC manufacturers to optimise COGS without compromising on specification.
Supply chain resilience
Own-brand stock positions reduce single-supplier dependency. For customers exposed to principal supply disruptions, ADCHEM Brands grades provide a qualified backup with identical documentation.
Four brand families.
One supply partner.
Each brand family targets a defined functional excipient category — with its own grade ladder, compendial monographs, and applications. One conversation, one order, one documentation pack.
CarboPrime by ADCHEM
High-Performance Carbomer Range
A range of acrylic polymeric thickeners delivering efficient viscosity, clarity, and stability across diverse formulations.
Cross-linked polyacrylic acid polymers used as rheology modifiers, suspending agents, and stabilisers in topical pharmaceutical preparations, gels, creams, suspensions, and personal-care formulations. Equivalent functional performance to the leading global carbomer brands, at regionally competitive pricing.
Available grades
CarboPrime 10
CarboPrime 20
CarboPrime 21
CarboPrime 940
CarboPrime 980
CarboPrime HV
Applications
• Pharmaceutical & Topical
• Personal Care
• Gels & Creams
• Lotions & Serums
• Emulsions & Suspensions
Key Benefits
• High Thickening Efficiency
• Excellent Clarity
• Stability
• Broad pH Compatibility
• Easy Processing
ADCELL by ADCHEM
Cellulose excipients · Solid oral dosage
Functional cellulose-based excipients for compressibility, disintegration, and modified release.
ADCHEM proudly introduces ADCELL® 101 Premium and ADCELL® 102 Premium, high-performance Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) grades crafted to elevate your pharmaceutical and food formulations. At ADCHEM, we’re more than just a distributor; our unique vertical integration ensures full control from manufacturing to end logistics. This guarantees exceptional quality and efficiency, making ADCELL® the superior choice for your formulation needs.
Available grades
ADCELL® 101 Premium
ADCELL® 102 Premium
ADCELL® 112 Premium
ADCELL® 302 Premium
Applications
• Superior Binding & Tablet Strength – Delivers strong, robust tablets with excellent compaction
and rapid dissolution.
• Optimized Flowability – Supports smooth processing, uniform die filling, and consistent tablet
weight, with ADCELL 302 & 102 offering enhanced flow.
• API Protection – Lower compression force helps protect pressure-sensitive APIs during
tableting.
• Low Moisture & Stability – ADCELL® 112 offers <%1.2 residual moisture, supporting
moisture-sensitive formulations and extended stability.
• High Purity & Consistency – Chemically inert, highly compatible, and reliable for consistent
batch-to-batch performance.
ADPOV by ADCHEM
Povidone · PVP · Co-polymer derivatives
Polyvinylpyrrolidone grades for binding, solubility enhancement, and film coating.
ADPOV® is ADCHEM's premium Crospovidone, a superior super disintegrant designed to enhance the performance of oral solid dosage forms, particularly for challenging applications. Crospovidone, a synthetic, insoluble, but highly swellable crosslinked homopolymer of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone, provides rapid disintegration, dissolution, and improved bioavailability of tablets and capsules.
Available Grades
ADPOV XL- Crospovidone XL
ADPOV XL-10 - Crospovidone XL-10
Applications
• Peroxide-sensitive APIs: Perfect for formulations containing peroxide-sensitive active
pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
• Nitrosamine-sensitive APIs: Suitable for APIs sensitive to nitrosamine formation.
• Orally Disintegrating Tablets (ODT): Essential for ODT formulations, enabling rapid
disintegration and enhanced mouthfeel.
• Poorly Soluble APIs: Helps dissolve poorly soluble drugs quickly, improving
bioavailability.
• Poorly Compressible APIs: Ideal for formulations requiring high compressibility and
stability, even with difficult-to-compress APIs.
ADSTAR by ADCHEM
Modified starches · SSG · Pregelatinised starch
Pre-treated and modified starch excipients for disintegration, filling, and granulation.
ADSTAR® is ADCHEM's high-quality Sodium Starch Glycolate (SSG), a super disintegrant specifically designed to enhance the performance of oral solid dosage formulations. It ensures rapid disintegration of tablets and capsules, improving drug release and bioavailability.
Available Grades
ADSTAR® A - Sodium Starch Glycolate Type A
ADSTAR SSG - coming
Applications
• Tablets: Enhances disintegration in immediate-release, orally disintegrating,
and chewable tablets.
• Capsules: Improves capsule content disintegration for faster drug availability.
• Granules and Pellets: Ensures efficient disintegration in multiparticulate
formulations.
The backbone of topical pharmaceutical and personal-care gel systems.
CarboPrime 40 is ADCHEM's general-purpose carbomer grade — a cross-linked polyacrylic acid polymer that thickens, suspends, and stabilises across a wide range of topical formulations. At low concentrations (0.5–2.0%), it creates the transparent, high-viscosity, shear-thinning gel structure that both pharmaceutical formulators and personal-care technologists reach for first.
Pharmaceutical gels
Emulsion stabiliser
Hand sanitisers
Suspending agent
Personal care
PVP grades for binding, solubility, and film - the formulator's workhorses.
ADPOV K-30 is the industry-standard K-value povidone for tablet wet granulation and dry binding. Its exceptional film-forming and solubilising properties make it the binding excipient of choice across immediate-release solid oral dosage forms — and the primary polymer in amorphous solid dispersion systems for poorly soluble active ingredients.
Wet granulation binder
Dry binder
Solid dispersion
Film coating
Topical formulations
Pharmacopoeial compliance across all four brand families.
The ADCHEM Brands quality programme is built on the same standards applied to the principals we represent. Every grade is tested to compendial specification before release — and every shipment goes with the full documentation pack that regulated manufacturers require.
USP / NF
United States Pharmacopeia
USP/NF compendial grades across applicable CarboPrime, ADCELL, ADPOV, and ADSTAR product lines.
Ph.Eur.
European
Pharmacopoeia
Ph.Eur. compendial compliance for European and GCC market regulatory submissions.
GMP
Good Manufacturing
Practice
All ADCHEM Brands grades manufactured under GMP-compliant conditions. Batch records available.
Halal
Halal
Certified
Halal certification available for applicable grades — supporting MENA and South Asia market requirements.
AVAILABLE DOCUMENTATION
- EXCiPACT Certification (supplier holds EXCiPACT certification)
- Certificate of Analysis (COA)
- Genotoxic Impurities Statement
- GMO Declaration (confirming Non-GMO status)
- NDMA-Free Statement
- Residual Solvents Statement
- Elemental Impurities Statement
- TSE/BSE Statement
- Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
- GMP Compliance Statement