Excipients and specialty chemistry for every dosage form.
Founded on a single proposition
Excipients, APIs and specialty chemicals for tablet, capsule, semi-solid, liquid and modified-release dosage forms. ADCHEM represents global pharmacopoeia-grade principals — Shin-Etsu cellulose ethers, Vanderbilt smectite clays, and a curated portfolio of binders, disintegrants, coatings and functional excipients — supported by regulatory documentation and consistent supply across compendial monographs.
GMP
Certified supply
EP
USP · BP grades
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Markets served
Compendial chemistry, consistently supplied.
ADCHEM's pharmaceutical segment serves generic manufacturers, contract development and manufacturing organisations, and branded pharmaceutical companies across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia and Europe. Our principals are selected for pharmacopoeial compliance, documentation depth, and supply reliability — not catalogue breadth.
Every product in the pharma portfolio is supported by a full regulatory documentation package — CoA, DMF, CEP, MSDS, halal certification and country-of-origin — supplied automatically with every order through COSMO, our proprietary platform.
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Pharmacopoeial-grade portfolio
All excipients sourced to EP, USP, BP and JP compendial standards where applicable. Pharmacopoeial dossiers supplied with every order — not on request, automatically via COSMO.
EP · USP · BP · JP grades
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EXCiPACT and GMP-certified supply chain
ADCHEM holds EXCiPACT certification for pharmaceutical excipient distribution — verifying GMP and GDP compliance across our storage, handling and documentation processes. Our warehouses operate to temperature-controlled, GDP-compliant conditions.
EXCiPACT · GMP · GDP certified
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Regulatory affairs support across 10 markets
Local regulatory teams in Dubai, Cairo, Istanbul, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad support customers with dossier compilation, import registration and pharmacopoeial monograph navigation — across FDA, EMA, and national authority requirements.
10 markets · In-country regulatory teams
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Consistent supply backed by strategic stocking
Consignment inventory in Jebel Ali Free Zone (Dubai) ensures in-region availability for Gulf and MENA customers. Bergamo holds European principal stock for EU and Türkiye lanes. Lahore warehouses serve Pakistan's domestic pharmaceutical manufacturing base.
Dubai · Bergamo · Lahore stock positions
Six functional categories. One supply partner.
Every category below is supported by at least one dedicated principal relationship — with full documentation, in-region stock, and a commercial team trained on the chemistry before they sell it.
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Cellulose Derivatives & Binders
Hypromellose (HPMC), hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC), and microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) for film coating, modified release, tablet binding and controlled disintegration. Shin-Etsu's METOLOSE and PHARMACOAT grades are the benchmark in this category.
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Smectite Clays & Minerals
Pharmaceutical-grade talc, hectorite, and smectite clays from Vanderbilt Minerals — used as glidants, lubricants, and suspension stabilisers in solid dosage forms, topical preparations, and liquid suspensions.
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Disintegrants & Superdisintegrants
Sodium starch glycolate, croscarmellose sodium, and crospovidone for fast-disintegrating tablets, orally disintegrating tablets (ODTs), and immediate-release capsules requiring rapid dissolution profiles.
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Film-Coating & Modified-Release Polymers
Enteric and sustained-release polymer systems — hypromellose phthalate, cellulose acetate phthalate, Eudragit analogues — for gastro-resistant, extended-release, and site-specific delivery formulations.
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Topical & Semi-Solid Excipients
Carbomers and polyacrylic polymers (ADCHEM's CarboPrime range), silicones, emollients, and rheology modifiers for creams, ointments, gels, transdermal patches and topical drug products requiring compendial-grade materials.
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Liquid & Parenteral-Adjacent Excipients
Solubilisers, suspending agents, preservatives and tonicity agents for oral liquids, nasal sprays and ophthalmic formulations. Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) grades from our ADPOV line for solubilisation and complexation applications.
The principals behind
the portfolio.
ADCHEM represents principals selected for chemistry credentials, pharmacopoeial compliance, and documentation depth. Every relationship is long-term — the commercial team knows the grades before they present them to a customer.
Shin-Etsu Chemical
Japan · Est. 1926
The world’s leading manufacturer of hypromellose (HPMC) and hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) for pharmaceutical applications. Shin-Etsu’s METOLOSE and PHARMACOAT grades are benchmarked against every major pharmacopoeia and represent the gold standard in cellulose ether performance. ADCHEM distributes across MENA, South Asia and European corridors.
Vanderbilt Minerals
USA · Est. 1916
Vanderbilt’s pharmaceutical-grade talc (VANATURAL) and hectorite clays are processed specifically for GMP-compliant production. VANATURAL talc is the industry reference for compendial-grade mineral excipients — widely used as a glidant and lubricant in solid dosage forms and as a suspending agent in topical preparations.
Technical conversations that lead with grades, not price.
ADCHEM's pharmaceutical commercial team is briefed on excipient chemistry before they are briefed on pricing. Conversations about HPMC viscosity grades, carbomer neutralisation chemistry, or hectorite thixotropy happen at the application level — with the right grade selected first, and the supply chain managed second.
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Grade selection and specification
Viscosity-grade selection for HPMC film coats and controlled-release matrices. Particle size optimisation for talc and MCC in direct compression. Polymer selection for aqueous and organic coating systems.
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Regulatory documentation packages
Full DMF support, CEP facilitation, CoA review, pharmacopoeial monograph cross-referencing. Halal certification for excipients destined for MENA markets. REACH compliance documentation for European supply chains.
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Formulation guidance and substitution
Where a customer's established formulation calls for a grade ADCHEM doesn't carry, our technical team evaluates functional equivalents from our portfolio and documents the equivalence case for the customer's regulatory file.
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Stability and compatibility screening
Sample quantities for ICH stability studies, compatibility screening, and in-process testing. Technical data sheets, formulation guides and application notes from all pharma principals — supplied with every sample, not on request.
In-region stock.
On-time supply.
ADCHEM's pharmaceutical supply chain is designed around the production schedules of manufacturers in the markets we serve — not around the convenience of a centralised hub. Stock positions in Dubai, Bergamo and Lahore mean that a production requirement in Cairo, Istanbul or Karachi is already in-region before the order is placed.
GDP-compliant storage, all warehouses
Temperature monitoring, batch traceability, and full GDP audit trail. Cold chain available for temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical materials.
Real-time order visibility via COSMO
Every order tracked from principal warehouse to consignee gate. Regulatory documents auto-attached at despatch — not as a separate follow-up.
Consignment stocking by agreement
For high-volume pharma customers with predictable demand, ADCHEM holds consignment inventory in-region. Buffer stock eliminates single-voyage dependency.
Repackaging to line specification
Manufacturer pack sizes repackaged to production-line quantities at GMP-compliant conditions. New CoA and documentation issued for every repacked unit.
ADCHEM pharma offices
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Dubai
ADCHEM International FZCO Jebel Ali Free Zone
All pharma grades
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Bergamo
ADCHEM Europe SRL European principal stock
Shin-Etsu · Vanderbilt
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Lahore
ADCHEM Pakistan DHA Phase 8C
Solid dosage · Topicals
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Cairo
ADCHEM Egypt 6th of October City
Pharma · Nutra
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Istanbul
ADCHEM İlaç Kimyasalları
Pharma · Nutra
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Jeddah
ADCHEM · Jamjoom Centre
Gulf markets
COSMO Platform
Every pharma order tracked in real time.
COSMO, ADCHEM’s proprietary platform, connects all 10 offices and carries every order from inquiry to invoice. Regulatory documents — CoA, DMF, halal cert, country-of-origin — attached automatically. Customer data never leaves ADCHEM infrastructure.
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