Capsules are one of the most popular and easy-to-take dosage forms in the world of nutraceuticals. Parkace has been a premium capsule manufacturer for over two decades, supplying businesses across the world with the kind of superior quality products they need to market to the growing market. We take control of the full capsule manufacturing process at our state-of-the-art factory in Lincolnshire, UK, which also houses our experienced team of supplement experts.
As capsule manufacturers, there are four ways which Parkacre can help you add some new capsules into your product mix. Our superb team can work with you to create a fully bespoke capsule product with a brand new formulation. Additionally, we offer private label capsules where we can add your brand identity to the finished products, or you can choose to adapt one of our standard products to make it unique to you and your audience. For the quickest route to market, you can add our ready-made branded ranges like Nature’s Care and Vangard Performance to your product range.
Choosing to partner with Parkacre for contract capsule manufacturing can bring a host of benefits to your business and your consumers. This simple dosage form is extremely popular due to how easy it is to take, with all capsule shells ideal for protecting sensitive ingredients and delayed release capsules often a popular choice. Here are some more reasons why you should join us:
We provide a fully integrated service for our clients, covering everything from formulation and capsule production to packaging and distribution, all under one roof in Lincolnshire. This streamlined supply chain drives efficiency, reduces lead times and ensures consistent quality for consumers.
With the capacity to produce billions of capsules annually in pharmaceutical-grade cleanrooms, Parkacre delivers scalable solutions for brands of all sizes. Consumers benefit from reliable products that meet high safety and quality standards, even when at huge scale.
Businesses can develop bespoke formulations, choose from different capsule types (e.g., vegetarian, delayed-release) and tailor packaging to suit market needs and their own branding. This gives consumers a wide choice of products aligned with dietary, ethical or health preferences, showing the potential size of the market available.
The beauty of capsules is that there is very little in the way of limits when it comes to the kind of nutraceuticals we can formulate in this dosage form. Whether your business is in health, wellbeing, sports or beauty, we have the technology to produce millions and millions of capsules that are tailored to your target end user.
Our private label capsules allow you to take high-quality capsules to market under your own branding, without the lengthy process of formulating a bespoke capsule for your company. Through our experience and expertise, we have produced a series of standard capsule products, which offer the kind of benefits consumers are looking for. Using our private label service means you can sell these capsules as your own, in your fully branded packaging, saving time and money. We have a wide array of private label capsules in many different areas, from sports and wellbeing to health and beauty, with finished capsules packaged in blister packs or bottles with a long shelf life.
Since 2004, Parkacre has been leading the way in capsule manufacturing. Our capsules are on the shelves of pharmacies and nutritional retail stores across the world, bringing benefits to both businesses and the consumers purchasing them. We pride ourselves on quality and innovation, with our stringent quality control measures and world-leading capsule filling machines at the heart of our manufacturing process. We keep up to date with any advancements in encapsulation technology, ensuring our development process is always accurate, consistent and at high speed.
It’s not just state-of-the-art machinery where we excel, we always employ the best product development and research personnel in the nutraceutical and pharmaceutical industry, who will be able to guide you through the entire process and recommend the best innovations for your new product. Whether you choose to work with us to design a completely new formula for your capsule product or you go down the route of adapting one of our standard products, you will have the full support of our team. Fully bespoke capsule manufacturing is the longest and most expensive option we offer, but it does give you freedom to produce a capsule supplement from our wide array of raw ingredients that is fully tailored to you and your ideal customer.
Be sure to explore our online ingredient database to get a sense of the kind of ingredients we can include in a custom capsule formulation and the kind of benefits those ingredients can offer to a consumer.
The manufacturing process for capsules always begins with sourcing and testing raw ingredients. Once agreed upon, the ingredients will be blended to an exact formulation, then precisely dosed and filled into empty capsule shells using automated filling equipment. The completed filled capsules then get checked for weight consistency and quality before packaging and delivery. At Parkacre, this entire process happens within our state-of-the-art UK facility, with quality control checks throughout.
The raw materials inside supplements depend entirely on the intended use of the capsule. For most supplements capsules, the active ingredients being encapsulated are things like vitamins, minerals or herbal extracts, while the capsule shell material itself is also worthy of note. Shells are commonly made from gelatin or, for vegetarian and vegan supplements, HPMC, a plant derived cellulose. Additional excipients like fillers or flow agents sometimes help ensure consistent, accurate filling during the production process.
What the best material is for capsules depends on your product’s intended audience and formulation requirements. Gelatin capsules are generally the most cost-effective and widely used choice, while HPMC capsules are the standard for vegetarian and vegan products, since they’re made from plant-derived cellulose rather than animal collagen. We work with both capsule materials and they both perform reliably across many different supplement products, so the decision usually comes down to your target market’s dietary preferences.
Technically, yes, using empty capsule shells and a manual filling device you could make supplement capsules yourself, but this isn’t suitable for a commercial product intended for sale. Commercial capsules need accurate dosing, quality testing and compliance with food safety and labelling regulations that home production can’t reliably deliver. An accredited manufacturer like Parkacre ensures consistent dosing and full regulatory compliance for anything actually going to market.
