Producer
JRS Pharma (J. Rettenmaier & Söhne)
Cellulose-based excipient maker; microcrystalline cellulose (Vivapur), disintegrants and binders for tablets.
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Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC)
Disintegrants & functional excipients
Binders, fillers & specialty
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Did you know2024
The microcrystalline cellulose that binds most of the world's pills comes from a company that is, at its core, a plant-fiber business. JRS Pharma is one division of J. Rettenmaier & Söhne (JRS), a German family group that has spent over a century turning wood and crop cellulose into engineered fibers — and the same fiber competency fans out across wildly different industries: MCC excipients in pharmaceuticals, fiber additives and anti-caking agents in food, reinforcing cellulose fibers added to road asphalt (to stop the bitumen draining out of the mix), animal bedding and feed fibers, and functional fibers in building materials and friction products. So the inactive ingredient holding your tablet together, the fiber stiffening the road outside, and a texturizer in processed food can all trace to one plant-fiber conglomerate most people have never heard of. [verify: JRS plant-fiber across pharma MCC/food/asphalt established fact]
J. Rettenmaier & Söhne GmbH + Co KG ↗Concentration2024
Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) is the single most ubiquitous excipient in solid-dose medicine — the filler and binder in an enormous share of all tablets and capsules — and global pharmaceutical-grade MCC supply is essentially a duopoly: JRS Pharma (VIVAPUR / EMCOCEL) and DuPont/IFF (Avicel). The active ingredient in a pill varies by drug; the stuff that gives the tablet its body and lets it be pressed and then disintegrate is, overwhelmingly, MCC from one of two suppliers. It is a quiet concentration: the world's pills are physically held together by the microcrystalline cellulose of a two-company market.
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