Comment · Wed, January 6, 2021 · ND Owner
New product: Sibelius Sage Powder, 2.5% Rosmarinic Acid
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Aldarund · 3 points
wow, 6 month is harsh. Why so long, isnt enteric coating mashines was on the way? And i remember there was something about new company that doing coating - whats up with it
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
The new company is doing normal coatings for us, but they won't do enteric coating. Enteric coating requires higher temperatures and pressures than standard veggie coating, and this company doesn't have the machines to do that yet. They are doing our normal veggie coated tablets, though. They also won't just coat something for us, like tablets we already had made. They want to take the raw powder, make them into tablets, then coat them. So we were kind of stuck with the epicatechin we already had made into tablets.
Our in-house coating machine is taking longer because of issues with venting. The air coming out of the machine is significantly hotter than we were told at first, and we are having to make modifications to our vent piping to accommodate it. Well the building that our production facility is in was just sold to new investors, and they are freaking out about modifications to the building that alter the structure, like putting new holes in the roof. So we are having to work around the existing vents, and tie into what is already there. However, we are making sure that the existing vents can handle the high temps from the exhaust air from the machine. It's a whole thing. I hope we can get it in and running quicker, but my team is telling me it will probably be 6 months before we have it up and running.
We are probably going to move our NMN other enteric coated tablets to enteric coated capsules for the time being, till we can get that system all set up. We have to do another run of NMN soon, and I don't want to go out of stock because of this coating issue, so I think moving to enteric coated capsules is a good short-term solution for it. That coating company in California going out of business really threw a wrench into things.