New high-tech nutraceutical facility

Sirio Phar­ma Co. Ltd – the glob­al nutraceu­ti­cal con­tract devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing orga­ni­za­tion (CDMO) – announced the open­ing of a gum­my pro­duc­tion plant at its new devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty in Ma’anshan (300km West of Shang­hai, Chi­na). This announce­ment comes 11 years after Sirio opened its first gum­my facil­i­ty. The new site will be built in sev­er­al phas­es and form a ‘Cen­tre of Excel­lence’ cov­er­ing an enor­mous 240,000sqm.
Phase Ⅰ of the site’s con­struc­tion has just been com­plet­ed and fea­tures a 26,000sqm gum­my pro­duc­tion plant and its asso­ci­at­ed build­ing – designed to expe­dite devel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing of gum­my for­mu­la­tions for glob­al customers.

“In the Unit­ed States and Europe in par­tic­u­lar, there is a sig­nif­i­cant growth poten­tial in gum­my for­mu­la­tions – as they are seen as a more con­sumer friend­ly dosage form. For many of the brand­ed firms look­ing to enter this mar­ket ear­ly with cus­tomized for­mu­la­tions, we offer clear advan­tages. We can expe­dite devel­op­ment and even offer taste test­ing options dur­ing for­mu­la­tion. Alter­na­tive­ly, we also offer ready-to-go for­mu­la­tions for com­pa­nies that are look­ing to enter the mar­ket quick­ly – because we have one of the largest ranges of exist­ing gum­my for­mu­la­tions of any glob­al busi­ness. But as con­sumers become more dis­cern­ing, we antic­i­pate brand­ed com­pa­nies will increas­ing­ly need spe­cial­ist gum­my devel­op­ment part­ners and capabilities.”
Rui Yang, CSO of Sirio Pharma

The gum­my pro­duc­tion plant fea­tures inte­grat­ed R&D and will increase pro­duc­tion capac­i­ty to 2.4 bil­lion gum­mies per year. Sirio also expand­ed its abil­i­ty to make inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts such as liq­uid filled, cen­tre-filled, swirled and mul­ti-coloured gum­mies. In addi­tion, Sirio has hun­dreds of stan­dard gum­my for­mu­la­tion options suit­able for mar­ket launch in the US and EU, and veg­e­tar­i­an options includ­ing car­rageen and pectin, as well as sug­ar free and low-sug­ar options.