In House Manufacturing

In the early days all manufacturing was out-sourced but David Haythornthwaite, the company founder, always had a long term plan to manufacture the products in-house.

I am amazed when I read about companies being advised to out-source their manufacturing requirements. We have done the opposite and I have no doubt it pays off.

Manufacturing our own products gives us many advantages but the key ones are flexibility and quality control:

Flexibility

In a rapidly growing business like VetPlus it is critical to be able to react to your customers' demands.

Many of our overseas customers are small businesses and cannot buy in huge quantities to start with, so they may require only a small quantity but labeled and packaged in their language of choice. We now ship to sixteen different countries and can turn round a language specific order in less than three weeks

Quality Control

Nutraceuticals is a particularly difficult market as many of the novel ingredients vary widely in quality. As with everything finding trustworthy and reliable suppliers is critical but also having the ability to test incoming raw materials and final product in-house ensures we are in complete control.

In 2008 we moved into a brand new, purpose built manufacturing plant which effectively has more than quadrupled our capacity.

Industry Leading Standards

We pride ourselves on having industry leading quality standards to ensure the highest quality of our products. These stringent standard operating procedures affect everything from raw material purchasing to finished product testing.