Pharmaceutical industry

CaCO3

Scoralite® is used for the manufacture of tablets made with vitamin D3 for the treatment of osteoporosis.

Calcium carbonate Scoralite ® is an excipient or a calcium source. It features in many medicines and particularly in antibiotics.Used as inert filler in medicines, it enables certain constituent to be mixed, which on their own are hygroscopic (aspirin, hexamin, glucuronic acid, vitamin C, vitamin B1).

A second process, leads to the production of a pure grade of precipitated calcium carbonate: Scoralite®,available in various specialties of low levels of Lead, Iron, Aluminium, Cadmium.

Scoralite® is also available in micronized form, and in direct compression form, with starch, maltodextrin, acacia gum, and polyols (sorbitol..), tailor made formulations on request.