CONTRACT MANUFACTURING & PACKING
Four decades of unmatched quality and customer service With its 40th anniversary celebration in April, the opening of an additional warehouse in June, increased capacity and a future manufacturing plant, Hersol Manufacturing Laboratories continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. P C Review reveals the latest developments at this leading contract manufacturing company.
H
ersol Manufacturing Laboratories
sugar and film coating, effervescent,
(Hersol) occupies over
granules, veterinary medication, delayed/
12 000m² of production and
modified release tablets and speciality
warehousing space as
well as testing laboratories. The company employs well over 400 qualified people at various levels and is run by a competent management team, which oversees all aspects of production. The team’s mantra is ‘built-
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tablets, while its encapsulation offering spans gelatine, vegetarian and soft
Hersol, a registered gelatine capsules. manufacturer of Hersol’s packing pharmaceutical products and department consists complementary medicines, is celebrating its 40th of 13 lines employing anniversary in April. The over 100 people. This company was founded department is flexible in 1980 by Laurence Solomons and to customers’ needs and Sam Hertzekowitz.
in quality, customer service, delivery, and price’, for which it’s become renowned in the industry.
offers a variety of services,
including container, bottle, unit carton, shrink wrapping, blistering and combo packing.
The goal of production at Hersol is to ensure quality as well as to gain the
Five-year growth plan
ability to repeat the production of a new
Hersol’s management is in the process of
product in order to attain efficiency.
acquiring a new building in Jeppestown
Within its manufacturing plant, Hersol
which is located in close proximity to its
produces various products and dosage
existing facility. The new building will give
forms, including powders, granules,
the company room to expand its existing
solutions, suspensions, syrups, extracts,
operations while increasing its capabilities.
ointments, creams and cosmetics.
This forms part of Hersol’s five-year plan,
The company’s tabletting capabilities include coated and uncoated tablets,
which includes the acquisition of new machinery and will give the business additional scope for NPD. The company has always operated in a highly energy efficient manner and was among the first manufacturers in Johannesburg to operate on gas power supplied by Egoli Gas. More recently, Hersol has installed a new generator, bringing this total to three and allowing it to move completely off the grid. This eliminates any downtime associated with load shedding and provides Hersol with the electricity capacity as stipulated by HVAC requirements. With the increased power generation, Hersol now has more capacity for additional machinery and production.
Hersol’s new high speed, fully automated encapsulation machine
manufacturing capacity at Hersol but also increases its scope for new business.
Diversifying into CBD Over the past four decades, Hersol has become a speciality manufacturing company. In the early ’90s the directors and management team built up the company and it has grown exponentially since then. Hersol’s R&D department is an important contributor of new ideas and concepts that add value to its customers’ businesses. The R&D team assists customers to be innovative and helps improve their products in the market. The team’s latest area of focus is CBD oil, for which Hersol has planned to acquire machinery to fill small bottles up to 50mℓ. Highly specialised machinery is required to fill CBD oil and Hersol is proud to let the industry know that it has included this development as part of its strategic planning. In order to meet market demands for the growing categories of health supplements, Hersol also plans to diversify into homeopathy. This is an exciting time for the future of the complementary medicines industry and Hersol is looking forward to many more years ahead. •
As a result, the company has installed a new high speed, fully automated The new generator installed at Hersol Manufacturing Laboratories
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encapsulation machine. This new machine not only increases the
Hersol Manufacturing Laboratories – www.hersol.co.za
