IBN Completes First Phase of Manufacturing Facility

MONTCLAIR, Calif.Ingredients By Nature (IBN) completed phase 1 of its manufacturing facility in Montclair, CA. The facility was designed with all aspects of quality, functionality and industry needs in mind. The IBN manufacturing facility possesses all new, state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment. The facility also includes an on-site, third-party, full-service laboratory.

IBN now provides toll work services for chilsonation (roller compaction), large-batch blending premixing (3000 kgs capacity with blending with liquid options), high-shear mixing (blending, dry blending with liquid, wet granulation), milling, fluid-bed granulation (top spray:  granulation, particle coating; bottom spray/Wurster:  pellets, granules, small tablets, enteric/time-release coating;  tangent:  coating, pelletizing, powder layering), and packaging. The production processes are equipped with rare earth magnets and metal detection.

The completion of our first phase of the facility is significant in that it allows us to provide expanded capabilities to better serve our industry clients," stated Rob Brewster, president of IBN. Our team worked very hard in all aspects to complete this facility on time, which is a rare feat."

Mel A. Earls, production manager of Ingredients By Nature, added, "In response to arising trends in consumer demands, my executive and manufacturing team invested fully in creating a heightened cGMP (current good manufacturing practice) facility with full capabilities of manufacturing quality products through new state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment, as well as rolling out quality standards with the intention of raising the bar in the ingredient manufacturing and dietary supplement manufacturing industries."

Phase 2 of the facility will include a new proprietary heat and steam sanitation process developed by IBN. Bo Zhu, executive vice president of IBN, said the company will also be adding a research and development lab to provide on-site resources to develop proprietary extracts. He added this lab will be accessible IBNs customers who would like to do on-site R&D for toll projects and formula creation.

Ingredients by Nature recently introduced CITRUSHIELD, a high oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) citrus flavonoid formula.