OREANDA-NEWS. BASF representatives will be participating at CPhI Worldwide, the world's largest pharmaceutical trade fair scheduled to take place in Frankfurt, Germany (hall 3.1, booth 31E19) from October 22 to 24, 2013. Under the umbrella of the corporate strategy "We create chemistry for a sustainable future", BASF will reach out to customers and partners to discuss its intelligent end-to-end solutions and high-quality products such as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), excipients, catalysts, reagents and inorganic specialties.

By acquiring Pronova BioPharma, BASF has achieved a leading position in the global market for omega-3 fatty acids. This transaction complements the acquisition of Equateq, now BASF Pharma (Callanish), in May 2012 and expands BASF's omega-3 portfolio. BASF's offering now covers the full range of medium- to highly concentrated omega-3 fatty acids for use in nutrition, dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals.

BASF's highly concentrated and extremely pure omega-3 fatty acids are used as APIs to treat cardiovascular diseases such as post-myocardial infarction and hyperlipidemia/ hypertriglyceridemia; they are also used in nutritional applications, including dietary supplements.

Omega-3 fatty acids are a recent major enhancement to BASF's diverse API portfolio that has gained the trust of the pharmaceutical industry over many decades. BASF is a worldwide leading supplier of ibuprofen, caffeine, pseudoephedrine, theophylline and phenylephrine among many other generic active pharmaceutical ingredients.

The challenge for pharmaceutical companies to enhance the solubility of active ingredients can only be tackled with the right solubilizers and process technologies. BASF is devoted to providing solutions for such solubilization challenges to support customers' success, as proven for instance by the high-throughput screening robot Solu-HTS that speeds up the selection of the best solubilizer or combination for poorly soluble APIs.

BASF's portfolio includes exceptional solubilizing agents such as the award-winning Soluplus(r) and the Kolliphor(r) and Kollidon(r) ranges. These products can be used in standard production processes as well as with innovative process technologies such as hot-melt extrusion (HME) for optimal results.