A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS THRIVING SUPPLEMENT COMPANY, SYNERGY, PROVES THAT MOAB IS HOSPITABLE TO LIGHT INDUSTRY — AND THAT PROFITS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY CAN GO HAND IN HAND
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Written by Rachel Fixsen
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Photos by Murice D. Miller
nside a beige warehouse building on the outskirts of Moab, workers in scrubs, bouffant caps, and with disposable covers on their shoes are measuring, mixing, and bottling powders and capsules made from organic ingredients from around the globe. They’re making Pure Synergy, a signature supplement of The Synergy Company, a manufacturer of health and wellness supplements for direct sale to customers in dozens of countries. Pure Synergy contains more than 60 ingredients, including spirulina, ginger, goji berries, and mushrooms, chosen to sustain energy and focus and support immune response, according to the company. “The green is from the grasses—barley grasses, wheat grasses” says Ann Walters-Cool, director of manufacturing for The Synergy Company, looking through a viewing window into a room tinted pale green by a thin film of powder on every surface. Workers in the room are weighing the springgreen powder on a digital scale before dumping
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it into a large, metal, funnel-shaped container in the center of the room, called a Vitri-Siv—“basically a big sifter,” Walters-Cool says. The Vitri-Siv removes any clumps in the material and empties through a hatch in the floor to a huge blender located in the room below. “It’s a 40 cubic-square-foot blender,” says Walters-Cool, leading the way down a metal
staircase, past shelves stocked with production supplies, to see the huge blender and tour the rest of the factory. Walters-Cool oversees production, warehouse maintenance, and facilities at the company’s five buildings. “I have a really excellent management crew,” she says in explaining how she manages it all. “They’re fantastic.”
