Four decades of unmatched quality and customer service

Hersol Manufacturing Laboratories (Hersol) occupies over 12 000m² of production and 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 in quality, customer service, delivery, and price’, for which it’s become renowned in the industry.

The goal of production at Hersol is to ensure quality as well as to gain the ability to repeat the production of a new product in order to attain efficiency. Within its manufacturing plant, Hersol produces various products and dosage forms, including powders, granules, solutions, suspensions, syrups, extracts, ointments, creams and cosmetics.

The company’s tabletting capabilities include coated and uncoated tablets, sugar and film coating, effervescent,granules, veterinary medication, delayed/modified release tablets and speciality tablets, while its encapsulationoffering spans gelatine, vegetarian and softgelatine capsules.

Hersol’s packing department consists of 13 lines employing over 100 people. This department is flexible to customers’ needs and offers a variety of services, including container, bottle, unit carton, shrink wrapping, blistering and combo packing.

Five-year growth plan

Hersol’s management is in the process of acquiring a new building in Jeppestown which is located in close proximity to its existing facility. The new building will give the company room to expand its existing operations while increasing its capabilities. This forms part of Hersol’s five-year plan, 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. As a result, the company has installed a new high speed, fully automated encapsulation machine. This new machine not only increases the 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.