life sciences

from pediatrics to geriatrics, responsibly solving for a healthier world

life sciences

Working collaboratively with our customers, Ashland’s pharmaceutical scientists are the solvers helping to answer some of the most complex and important medical challenges of our time. We are the ‘expert’s expert,’ the trusted advisors helping pharmaceutical companies develop safe, high-quality, effective ingredients for formulating and manufacturing medicine. Our conscious-to-cutting-edge innovations and unparalleled portfolio of products help save lives, make and keep patients well, and reduce the effects of chronic disease.

Ashland is the leader in products and technologies for tablets, which are the most affordable drug delivery systems available. This affordability helps improve the health of people in all corners of the world. We enable tablets to be made faster, stronger, and lighter, thus lowering the cost to pharmaceutical manufacturers. Our innovative tablet coatings can mask taste and make medicine easier to swallow. Ashland’s expertise in controlled release functionality and long-acting injectables means patients can take less medicine, fewer times, with less cost, in more comfortable and tolerable ways. Beyond pharmaceutical ingredients for diagnostic films, our medical products can help improve patient outcomes when they have special treatment needs. Ashland’s nutrition and nutraceutical offerings support people in their quest for healthier life choices. And the focus of our agricultural segment is to grow more food on less land by increasing the efficacy and lowering usage rate of crop protection products. Building on a strong reputation of trust, reliability, and high-quality in this regulated space, Ashland is responsibly solving for a healthier world.

new product innovation highlights

vialose™ trehalose

dihydrate is a functional ingredient used to protect and stabilize proteins for biologic medicines and the newest addition to Ashland’s portfolio of injectable formulations benecel™ xrf hpmc is a fine particle size grade designed for optimal performance in large scale, high-speed tableting

klucel™ xtend hpc oral

matrix former is expected to become the new gold standard for extendedrelease tablets, because it presents an option for easier tablet swallowability or a reduction in the number of tablets required for frequent medication, helping improve patient compliance with drug regimens especially for those with chronic disease or other serious illness nutrapress™ chw organic chewable base is a complete system containing an organic binder, sweetener, flow aid, and lubricant, made with a patent-pending technology