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 · Polyacrylic polymers
CarboPrime
Cross-linked polyacrylic acid for topical gels, suspensions & personal care
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Cellulose excipients · Solid dosage
ADCELL
Cellulose-based excipients for compressibility, disintegration, modified release
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Povidone · PVP · Co-polymers
ADPOV
Polyvinylpyrrolidone for tablet binding, solubility enhancement & film coating
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Modified starches · SSG
ADSTAR
Pre-treated and modified starches — disintegrants, fillers, and granulation aids
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
Carbomers · Cross-linked polyacrylic acid polymers
Rheology modifiers for topical pharmaceutical and personal-care 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 40
K grade - coming
K grade - coming
K grade - coming
K grade - coming
Available grades
- Topical pharmaceutical gels and creams
- Hand sanitisers and antiseptic gels
- Hair styling gels and personal-care emulsions
- Suspending agent for oral and topical suspensions
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ADCELL by ADCHEM
Cellulose excipients · Solid oral dosage
Functional cellulose-based excipients for compressibility, disintegration, and modified release.
ADCELL grades are cost-engineered cellulose excipients for solid oral dosage forms — supporting compressibility, disintegration, and modified-release performance. They complement the Shin-Etsu cellulose ether portfolio with price-competitive options for high-volume generic and OTC manufacturers across ADCHEM's regions.
Grade ladder
ADCELL 101
ADCELL 102 - coming
ADCELL SR - coming
ADCELL PH - coming
Applications
- Tablet binder and direct-compression excipient
- Disintegrant systems for immediate-release tablets
- Functional filler in solid oral dosage forms
- Matrix former for modified-release tablets
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ADPOV by ADCHEM
Povidone · PVP · Co-polymer derivatives
Polyvinylpyrrolidone grades for binding, solubility enhancement, and film coating.
Polyvinylpyrrolidone (povidone) and its co-polymer derivatives — workhorse excipients for tablet binding, granulation, film-coating, and solubility enhancement. ADPOV gives customers a price-competitive povidone option backed by full pharmacopoeial documentation and regional stock across Dubai, Bergamo, and Lahore.
Grade ladder (K-values and co-polymers)
ADPOV K-30
ADPOV K-90 - coming
ADPOV CL - coming
ADPOV VA64 - coming
Applications
- Tablet binder — wet and dry granulation
- Solubility enhancer for poorly soluble active ingredients
- Film former in tablet coatings and topical sprays
- Crospovidone variants as tablet super-disintegrant
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ADSTAR by ADCHEM
Modified starches · SSG · Pregelatinised starch
Pre-treated and modified starch excipients for disintegration, filling, and granulation.
Pre-treated and modified starch excipients — pregelatinised starch, sodium starch glycolate, and related functional starches. ADSTAR rounds out the ADCHEM Brands portfolio with the most economical disintegrant and filler-binder chemistry in the modern formulator's toolkit, supported by full compendial documentation.
Grade ladder
ADSTAR PGS
ADSTAR SSG - coming
ADSTAR XL - coming
ADSTAR CS - coming
Applications
- Tablet disintegrant — immediate and modified release
- Filler-binder for direct compression solid dosage forms
- Granulation aid in wet-granulated solid dosage
- Diluent in capsule-fill formulations
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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.
Document
Available for
Certificate of Analysis (CoA)
- All brands · All grades
Safety Data Sheet (SDS/MSDS)
- All brands · All grades
Technical Data Sheet (TDS)
- All brands · All grades
Pharmacopoeial dossier (USP/NF, Ph.Eur.)
- Compendial grades
Country-of-origin declaration
- All brands · All grades
Halal certification
- MENA / South Asia markets
GMP manufacturing declaration
- All brands · All grades
Regulatory support letter
- On request · All markets