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Pharmaceutical Ingredients & Solutions
Trusted pharmaceutical expertise
Pharmaceutical innovations can change the world and with the right partner, you can bring them to market faster, safer, and with more confidence.
Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions is more than an ingredient supplier; we’re a strategic partner providing industry-leading quality, formulation expertise, and a secure, reliable supply chain to help you bring your next pharmaceutical product to market.
Where needs meet solutions
We know that developing innovative pharmaceutical solutions is a complex process. And we're here to simplify the equation. With our global pharmaceutical labs and industry-leading Solution Centers, we work alongside you - testing, refining, and optimising - until your product meets the highest standards of efficacy and compliance.
It’s about more than our supply of excipients, intermediates, APIs, and high-purity solvents, it’s about combining the best people, the best products, and the best solutions – for you.
The Univar Solutions Pharmaceutical Ingredients team is driven by a mission to deliver high-quality, specialised ingredients that support health, healing and essential medicines. Through our unparalleled global distribution network, strategically located worldwide facilities, and best in class bulk storage and fleet capabilities, we help ensure product availability and supply security, delivering solutions that enable you to innovate with confidence.
Experience all this plus our innovative and customized supply chain solutions designed to reduce risk, optimise efficiency, and simplify global market entry. You’ll see how we are dedicated to ensuring you have access to the highest quality speciality ingredients, backed by a team that understands your challenges and is committed to your success.
As your partner in pharmaceutical innovation, we offer unmatched access to our global network of pharmaceutical-compliant facilities, strategic alliances with leading customer brands, and team of industry experts for your pharmaceutical ingredient and formulation needs.
Pharmaceutical applications & ingredients
Applications
Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Pharmaceutical innovations
Powering Healthy Tomorrows: Formulations featuring APIs and Excipients
We are proud to introduce this Powering Healthy Tomorrows prototype kit featuring six starting formulations for oral solid dose, oral liquid dose, and topical applications
Explore: Hero ingredients
Making the Medical Grade+ Topical Treatment Innovations
Explore three topical formulations featuring excipients and ingredients to help make your next topical product more effective and appealing to physicians and consumers
Explore: Topical formulas
The Univar Solutions Pharmaceutical Ingredient team is proud to be your strategic partner through reliability, scale, and innovation. Our specialists understand the complexities of product development and formulation and can offer custom solutions to help deliver value and responsiveness across life science segments. We go beyond to advance the future of pharmaceutical distribution and support your customers’ journeys to health and wellness.
We partner with suppliers who uphold the highest quality standards. Our expansive product portfolio includes high-purity solvents, excipients, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and bioprocessing ingredients. We also offer additional raw material and specialty ingredient options to serve primary and secondary pharmaceutical markets. Univar Solutions can help provide the critical pharmaceutical ingredients needed for all drug delivery dosage forms, prescriptions, and over-the-counter medicines.
Are you seeking formulation expertise to help bring your product to market or reformulate based on new pharmaceutical market trends? Our Solution Centers around the world have dedicated technical ingredient specialists who can work as a collaborative extension of your team at any phase of the development or manufacturing process.
Our in-house pharmaceutical lab specialists provide producers with quality assurance and innovative ingredient solutions for every application and dosage form. If you are scaling up from clinical trials to mass commercialization, searching for in-depth market insights, or exploring dual-sourcing options, our pharmaceutical ingredient specialists can help you overcome even the most complex product development and formulation challenges.
Latest Pharmaceutical Market Insights
How to help prevent tablet punch sticking in pharmaceutical manufacturing
Solutions to help pharmaceutical manufacturers overcome challenges presented by punch sticking in the direct compression tablet manufacturing process.
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Pharmaceutical topicals - growth and advantages
Why do consumers and physicians prefer pharmaceutical topicals to apply medicine? Here are 4 reasons topicals win out over other dosage forms.
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3 trends driving the animal health industry
Demand for animal health treatments, including vaccines, antibiotics, antiparasitics, and many other veterinary drugs is rising. Learn what trends are driving this growth.
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Responding to changing demands of the pharmaceutical industry
James Peterson, VP of pharmaceutical ingredients for Univar Solutions, offers his perspective on how the landscape for what the market prioritizes when choosing an ingredient supplier has shifted due to the pandemic, supply disruptions, and emerging medicinal therapies.
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Specialty Lab Services
Our scientists, chemists, and formulation laboratories offer development solutions, regulatory assistance, and technical application testing. Whether it's comparative analysis or formulation troubleshooting, leverage our labs and experts for your innovation needs.
Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical industry
Sustainability is at the forefront of how we serve our customers and operate internally. We understand how eco-conscious pharmaceutical manufacturing solutions directly impact the health of our planet. From formulating in our labs with sustainable ingredient alternatives to responsible packaging and transferring across the world, we help our customers improve their sustainability footprint and meet updated regulatory requirements.
