On the golden passage of the Silk Road, the pharmaceutical capital Dingxi once again drew global attention with its millennium‑old heritage as a land of medicinal herbs. On August 23, the 6th China (Gansu) Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry Expo grandly opened in Longxi County, Dingxi City. With the theme "Inheritance, Innovation, Openness, and Sharing to Promote High‑Quality Development of TCM", the expo brought together domestic and international TCM enterprises and professional visitors to discuss the future of industrial modernization and internationalization.

As a pioneer in the HPMC capsule field, Unicornshell made a brilliant appearance with its core products and innovative achievements, fully demonstrating its latest progress in promoting TCM modernization and green pharmaceutical industry upgrading.

HPMC Capsules: A Safe and Green New Choice

Upholding its mission of "promoting medication safety and protecting human health", Unicornshell focuses on the R&D of HPMC pharmaceutical excipients. The company uses non‑animal sourced raw materials such as plant cellulose and potato starch, combined with proprietary patented processes, to develop a series of products including HPMC capsules. These products offer high safety, good biocompatibility, and excellent stability, and can be widely used in pharmaceuticals, health products, and food — serving as an ideal alternative to gelatin capsules.

Unicornshell's strategic focus is a "two‑pronged approach": on one hand, leveraging Gansu's high‑quality authentic medicinal herbs to develop innovative TCM orally dissolving films, expanding new application scenarios for traditional TCM formulations; on the other hand, making continuous breakthroughs in the HPMC capsule field to provide green, safe, and internationally compliant excipient solutions. This dual‑engine drive jointly supports the modernization of TCM.

Supporting TCM Modernization and Expanding International Markets

At the expo, Unicornshell's featured HPMC empty capsules and a series of innovative formulations attracted high attention from domestic and overseas merchants. New products such as ganoderma spore powder capsules, HPMC soft capsules, and TCM orally dissolving film tablets, thanks to their green environmental protection and excellent performance, won favor from many visitors, and several preliminary cooperation intentions were reached, fully demonstrating the competitiveness of Chinese HPMC capsules in the international market. Unicornshell is steadily advancing its layout of six regional industrial clusters, among which the HPMC capsule production base in Shandan, Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is currently under construction.

TCM is a treasure of Chinese civilization, and modernization and internationalization are the only paths for its development. Unicornshell's continuous innovation in the field of HPMC excipients provides safer, internationally compliant solutions for TCM formulations, accelerating the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. Currently, the company's products not only meet domestic demand for gelatin replacement, but are also actively expanding into international markets, being exported to Europe, America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, further consolidating the foundation for international cooperation along the Belt and Road and injecting new momentum into the "going global" of the TCM industry.

Future Outlook · Empowering the Internationalization of TCM

This appearance at the 6th TCM Industry Expo marks an important milestone for Unicornshell to showcase its brand strength and technological advantages. In the future, the company will adhere to the development strategy of "green, safe, and intelligent", deepen industry‑university‑research collaboration, strengthen independent R&D, accelerate the application of HPMC capsules in TCM and innovative drugs, and build an internationally leading HPMC excipient industry system.

Unicornshell will be driven by innovation and bridged by cooperation, helping TCM regain vitality, promoting the upgrading of the green pharmaceutical industry, and contributing greater value to global health.