An Overview

Manufacturing Plant

Nutrition Care Pharmaceuticals has vast experience manufacturing capsule, tablet and powdered natural pharmaceutical products. This includes vitamins, minerals, herbal supplements, amino acids and complex nutritional/therapeutic products. Many of our products use the very latest in material technology such as products containing micro encapsulated ingredients, vegetable based and enteric-coated products.

Tablet products are offered in a broad range of sizes, shapes, colours. Powdered material can also be offered with varying particle size and flow rate. Nutrition Care uses the latest technology in environmental controls and we are licensed to manufacture foods, Listed and Registered TGA products. Nutrition Care’s customer base for these products spans clients in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia and China.

Dispensary

The Nutrition Care Dispensary is where the manufacturing process begins for all products. Ingredients are weighed out for production as specified in the master formula documentation. This documentation is used to record the raw materials, batch number, and quantity dispensed during this phase and remains the primary quality assurance document for the product throughout the manufacturing process.

Granulation

Wet granulation is a blending process, which uses liquid solutions to bridge and bind the particles of the dispensed mix into a compressible aggregate. By incorporating liquids this process also facilitates an even dispersion of active ingredient and weight throughout the mix. Suitable for certain products only this process ensures homogeneity & bioavailability within mixes not suited to "dry" blending operations.

Compression

Compression is the process whereby material is processed into tablets. NCP has an extensive inventory of compression machines and tablet tooling for manufacturing a wide range of shapes & sizes. High speed, high technology pharmaceutical tablet presses support customers with large batch run requirements producing in excess of 100,000 tablets per hour these presses are state-of-the-art technology.

For smaller batch customers, slower less automated presses are offered to ensure the manufacturing solution remains cost effective. All tablets produced are checked for their physical and chemical properties via our stringent Quality Control program.

Film Coating

NCP operates high volume, automated pharmaceutical coating equipment with both aqueous and enteric film coating capabilities. NCP has extensive experience in the use of colouring agents with a large range of colours available.