A Unique, Value-Added, Specialty Ingredient Marketer

Particle Dynamics International, LLC (PDI) develops and globally markets specialty ingredient product lines for the pharmaceutical, nutritional, food, and personal-care industries. Its products include value-added pharmaceutical, vitamin, mineral, herbal, and specialty products that provide benefits such as improved taste, enhanced product stability, or more efficient manufacturing.

	Particle Dynamics International, LLC currently offers three technologically distinguished lines of specialty ingredient families:
	Destab™ Destab™ is a direct-compression technology that enables pharmaceutical and nutritional supplement companies to produce tablets and caplets more efficiently and with a potential cost savings. Destab™ technology may eliminate the need for the expensive and time-consuming granulation step necessary for making most tablets and caplets. Antacids, calcium supplements, vitamins, and standardized herbal extracts are just some of the products that have benefited by the use of Destab™ technology.
	Descote® Descote® is a family of microencapsulated tastemasked vitamins, minerals, and standardized herbal extracts for use in chewable tablets, foods, and nutritional supplements, such as bars and drinks. The Descote® technology also has been shown to improve the stability of ingredients and reduce reactivity with other ingredients.
	MicroMask™ Micromask™ is a family of technologies designed to increase patient compliance by masking the taste and odor of objectionable medicines. MicroMask™ technology has been used successfully in the development of over-the-counter drugs for children and adults in a chewable tablet format. MicroMask™ also has been utilized in the new quick-dissolving tablet dosage form.