Nb entrepreneurs offers sodium starch glycolate. The company is accredited to iso 9001:2000 certification and is into the production, marketing, distribution of excipients and fine chemicals for pharmaceutical and other industrial applications. The sodium starch glycolate is the sodium salt of a carboxymethyl ether of starch with typical molecular weight 500 000-11 000 000. The sodium starch glycolate is an odourless, fine, white, free flowing, and water-insoluble powder. This sodium starch glycolate is applicable in oral pharmaceuticals as a disintegrant in capsule and tablet formulation. The recommended concentration of sodium starch glycolate in a formulation is 2-8 percent, with the optimum concentration about 4 percent. Increasing the tablet compression pressure does not effect disintegration time of sodium starch glycolate.
