Powder sachets for your brand: one serving to a sachet, ordered by weight

How many sachets is the 300 kg minimum?

That depends on your serving: the minimum is set in kilograms of powder, and the number of sachets follows from how much goes into each one.

The sum is 300 kg = 300,000 g ÷ your serving in grams = sachets, before filling losses. It is arithmetic, not a fill weight: some powder is lost in filling, so ask us for the count for your powder and serving.

Powders in jars or doy-packs, and sports nutrition, start from the same 300 kg. The minimum for every format, from blister runs to litres of syrup, is on minimum order quantity.

Do you need each serving closed on its own?

If you do, a sachet is the pack for your powder; if your users measure their own serving, a jar or a doy-pack is, and both start from the same 300 kg.

What the choice changes on your side:

• How servings are counted. Our jars and doy-packs are filled at 450, 900 or 1,800 g, which at a 30 g serving is 15, 30 or 60 servings to a pack. In sachets, each serving is a sachet, so your 300 kg becomes a number of sachets set by your serving.
• What you approve. The artwork is laid out for the sachet itself, to your market's label rules, and you approve it before anything is printed.

Who designs and prints the sachet?

We do, unless you bring artwork of your own. We lay out and print the sachet to the label rules of your market, which your importer confirms, and the carton too if your sachets are sold in one. Artwork you already have can be used instead. Only the artwork version you have approved is printed.

Name the country of sale in your enquiry, before the artwork is laid out:

• The label languages our sources name for 15 countries are on Arabic and French on supplement packaging.
• Markets where dates must be printed on the pack rather than stuck on, as under the food rules the US Department of Agriculture reports for Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are covered on shelf life and storage.

Sachets with a placeholder brand, beside the other packs we fill, are shown on examples.

Can I use a ready-made powder, or must the formula be my own?

Both routes are open; which ready-made formulas fit a sachet is confirmed in our reply. More than 500 ready-made formulas are in production across our formats, and they are not listed by name on this site. Name the category, the serving and the country of sale; for a ready-made formula that fits, you then receive a sample of the existing product.

For a formula of your own, a sample is developed to your brief first. The serving is settled with the sample, and with it the number of sachets your 300 kg will fill. How each kind of order runs is set out on white label supplements and private label supplements.

Two checks some buyers of powders ask for:

• Halal. Certification is arranged for the specific product rather than for the plant as a whole; see halal supplements.
• Banned substances. Tests can be run by an accredited third-party laboratory on request, with the report in your brand's name.

Sachet, blister or tube: which pack fits my product?

The form of the dose decides: a powder goes into a sachet, a jar or a doy-pack; a tablet, capsule or softgel can be sealed in a blister; an effervescent tablet goes into a tube.

The blister is the pack this site is built around. If your product can be made as a tablet or capsule, a blister run with a carton printed for your brand starts from 2,000 cartons (at least 4,000 blisters), on a ready-made formula or your own, with production in 6 to 10 weeks. Each carton holds 1 to 4 blisters, and the lidding foil is printed for your brand as well. Tooling is in place for set tablet and capsule sizes, listed on blister packing; another size, or a blister of your own design, has a minimum of its own, on minimum order quantity.

Whether a powder formula can be made as a tablet or capsule depends on the formula and on the size of the serving, so ask with your enquiry.

What should an importer in Africa or the Gulf check before ordering sachets?

Four things: the label rules of the country, the documents the registration file needs, the shelf life left on arrival, and what the regulator asks about stability in the pack you will sell.

• Label rules. We lay out and print the sachet to the label rules your importer confirms. Settle them before you approve the artwork, since new text after approval means new artwork.
• Documents. A Certificate of Analysis and the specification come with every batch, and copies of the plant's certificates with their numbers are sent on request. Where the country of sale asks for documents to be legalised, legalisation is arranged as well. The plant's GMP is GMP for food supplements, not pharmaceutical GMP; where a file asks for pharmaceutical GMP, your importer confirms with the authority what it will accept. More on export documents.
• Shelf life on arrival. The standard shelf life is 24 months, stated in the product documents, and dispatch, transit and customs each use part of it. Some importing countries apply minimum remaining shelf life rules to food; check with your importer whether such a rule applies to supplements. Plan back from lead times and shelf life and storage.
• Climate and the pack. Africa and the Gulf are not one climatic zone. WHO's list of stability conditions, written for medicines and a reference rather than law for supplements, gives Nigeria and Ghana 30 °C/75% RH, which corresponds to zone IVb, and Saudi Arabia and the UAE 30 °C/65% RH, which corresponds to zone IVa; other countries are on climatic zones by country. Ghana's FDA, in its 2013 guideline for supplements, asks for the stability study to be run in the container closure system in which the product will be marketed in Ghana; if your powder moves from a jar to sachets, ask your importer whether the study must be repeated in the new pack.

This page gives no shelf life for hot, humid conditions. If your market asks for stability data, name the product, the market and the regulator in your enquiry, together with what your importer has asked for.

The manufacturing group behind HYPERPHARM already supplies many clients in Africa. Registration in the country of sale is filed by the brand owner or the importer, not by us; our part is the documents the file draws on. Market by market: Africa and Middle East.

What your product decides

Your serving, your formula and your market settle part of the order before any preference does. Each line shows what it costs in run size, time or risk.

Questions buyers ask about powder sachets

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Minimum order quantity · Lead times · Blister packing · Effervescent tablets · Liquid supplements · Examples · Shelf life and storage · Climatic zones by country · Export documents · Arabic and French on supplement packaging · Halal supplements · Quality and batch documents · White label supplements · Private label supplements