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Lonza to Showcase Ingredients and Capsule Innovations at Expo West
The latest developments include new innovation services, pullulan capsules, food-colored capsules, and more.
By: Mike Montemarano
Photo: natara | Adobe Stock
Booth 3827
At Natural Products Expo West, Lonza Capsules and Health Ingredients will be showcasing ingredients and advances in delivery systems and capsule technologies, along with a new concept-to-market services platform that helps brands to create new dietary supplements.
Lonza will highlight UC-II undenatured type II collagen for joint health support for both people and pets. Unlike other collagen forms on the market, UC-II retains its shape due to its patented processing method, enabling efficacy at doses as low as 40 mg per day.
Lonza’s new innovation services enable brands to explore a range of dosage form solutions, address formulation challenges like ingredient interactions and optimal delivery, and ensure the right balance of combinations and formats. Lonza can also advise on optimal polymer functionality, sealing technology, and release systems to create effective and appealing products.
The company will also showcase its vegan Capsugel Plantcaps pullulan capsules. The vegan and plant-based dosage form can tap into this consumer preference, and is ideal ofr oxygen-sensitive ingredients like plant-based omega-3 oils. Capsugel Vcaps Plus HPMC vegan capsules, meanwhile, are suitable for moisture-sensitive ingredients like choline and L-carnitine.
Lonza’s Capsugel Vcaps Plus HPMC food-colored capsules offer coloring options for brands, using naturally-extracted, food-derived colorants that don’t require the use of organic solvents, artificial colorants, or chemical processing. These vegan supplements can stand out visually, offering consumer appeal.
