(BASF) -- Soluplus, the polymeric solubilizer from BASF, presented for the first time in 2009 as an innovative excipient, has now won the Silver Innovation Award at CPhI worldwide, the Convention on Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Intermediates. As a matrix polymer, the Solid Solution forms solid solutions with poorly soluble active ingredients and enhances their bioavailability.
BASF's Soluplus helps customers in the pharmaceutical industry develop and produce innovative drug products containing active ingredients that could not have been formulated with conventional excipients. Soluplus is especially designed for pharmaceuticals produced by hot melt extrusion. The technology is becoming increasingly important because it is suitable for formulating novel drug substances, which are in many cases barely soluble and poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract.