Capsule manufacturing for brands selling in North America
Two-piece hard-shell capsules produced through our network of GMP-certified partner facilities in the United States and Canada. One team runs your formula, your regulatory filing, your labels, and your production run.
We review your product or formula for feasibility free of charge, adjust it where it needs adjusting, then quote.
- catalog formula to shelf
- 6 to 10 wk
- capsule formulas in stock
- 360+
- on-time delivery
- 95%+
- production and stock
- US + CA
Capsules at a glance
- Minimum order
- 2,000 units
- Shell options
- Gelatin or vegetarian HPMC
- Sizes
- 00 through 4
- Finishing
- Custom shell colours, printing, clear shells
- Packaging
- Bottles, blisters, pouches
- Typical timeline
- 6 to 10 weeks* from catalogue formula; custom adds development time
*Typical timeline. Depending on which facility in our network runs your product, lead times range from 4 to 12 weeks.
Why brands run capsules with us
The fastest format to get right
Encapsulation is a mature, well-understood process and most facilities in our network hold open capacity for it. That makes capsules the lowest-risk way to launch a new SKU or move an existing one to a new manufacturer. There is no tooling to commission and no flavour system to develop, so the timeline is driven by your formula and your regulatory path rather than by the production method.
One relationship for both countries
We run capsule production in the United States and Canada and place each project with the facility that fits the formula, the certifications, and the volume. If you are selling into both markets, we can produce a single bilingual SKU rather than maintaining two separate runs. You deal with one project lead either way.
Volume pricing without the volume commitment
Because we route the combined capsule volume of every client through the same partner network, your run is priced against that aggregate rather than against your own order size. That is how a 2,000-unit first run gets pricing and production priority a single brand could not negotiate on its own, and why the same SKU can scale past 100,000 units without changing partners or re-qualifying the formula.
Testing you can hand to a retailer
Every batch ships with a Certificate of Analysis from an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory covering identity, potency, heavy metals, and microbial contamination. Nothing leaves the floor without a passing COA, which is what Amazon, retail buyers, and practitioner channels will ask for before they take a listing.
What we can produce
- Gelatin and vegetarian (HPMC) shells
- Sizes 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4
- Custom shell colours and two-tone combinations
- Logo or product name printed directly on the capsule
- Clear shells for fill-visible positioning
- Vitamins, minerals, and mineral chelates
- Standardised herbal and botanical extracts
- Probiotic blends with guaranteed CFU at expiry
- Enteric and delayed-release options
- Blended multi-active stacks
One partner for both markets
Selling capsules in Canada requires a Natural Product Number from Health Canada, and we prepare and file the application as part of the project. Selling in the United States requires production at an FDA-registered facility with a compliant Supplement Facts panel and structure/function claims that stay inside the rules; our US partner is FDA registered and our regulatory team reviews the label before it goes to print. When you are launching in both countries we run the two streams in parallel and design one bilingual label so a single SKU clears both borders.
Capsules manufacturing questions
2,000 units. That is a floor rather than a target. Most established brands run 10,000 to 100,000 per SKU, but it means you can validate a new product without committing to an oversized first run. The same formula scales past 100,000 units inside our network without re-qualification.
Vegetarian HPMC shells open up vegan, halal, and kosher positioning and are the default for plant-based brands, at a modest cost premium. Gelatin is cheaper, has a slightly better moisture barrier for hygroscopic ingredients, and remains the norm in mainstream retail. We will tell you which one suits your formula and your channel on the assessment call.
It depends on fill weight and ingredient density, not on dose alone. A size 0 typically holds 400 to 500 mg of a standard powder blend and a size 00 holds 700 to 800 mg. If your formula will not fit a capsule a consumer is willing to swallow, we will say so early and suggest either a two-capsule serving or a powder format instead.
Yes, and it is one of the most common projects we run. Send your current specification, formula, and label. We confirm what transfers directly, flag anything a new facility has to re-document, and quote the switch. In most cases your customers notice nothing except that the product keeps arriving on schedule.
Yes. Our private-label catalogue holds more than 360 capsule formulas that are already manufactured, tested, and selling, across vitamins, botanicals, probiotics, sports nutrition, and specialty categories. Starting from one of those skips the R&D phase entirely. Clients get catalogue access during onboarding.
Any custom formulation we develop for you is 100% your intellectual property, documented and non-negotiable in our contracts. We do not license, resell, or reuse it. Catalogue formulas work differently. Those stay in our catalogue, which is what makes them fast and inexpensive to launch.
Get a capsule production assessment
Tell us about the product, the market, and the volumes. We come back within 24 hours with a recommended facility, a realistic timeline, and what the regulatory path looks like.
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