Capabilities

Core Competencies

Vitamin/Mineral Premixes
Wet/Dry Blending
Micro-Encapsulation
Trituration
Spray Drying
High Shear Granulation
Hot Melt Granulation
Agglomeration
Drum-to-Hopper Blends
Grinding & Micronizing
Instantizing
Cast Film Technology
Toll Manufacturing

Premixes

Watson provides ingredients and custom blends to many industries, including dietary foods and supplements, infant formula, sports nutrition, meal replacement, beverages, bakery and pharmaceutical. Since no one formula can meet all of our customers’ requirements, each blend is custom formulated, taking into consideration its intended use, sensory evaluation, stability, and cost. Each active ingredient is tested in every blend before release.

Specialty Ingredients:

Our expertise in Fluid Bed Technology has allowed us to become a leader in supplying microencapsulated ingredients around the world. We can coat materials to mask flavor, enhance stability, or provide moisture barrier protection. We have a long list of microencapsulated nutritional products, or can custom microencapsulate your product.

Also, our eight production fluidized beds run around the clock to provide instantized and agglomerated products. Instantizing can make powders more dispersible. Agglomerated products can improve compressibility, content uniformity, and reduce friability, as well as improve disintegration and dissolution.

Our specialty ingredients also include vitamin oil blends and spray dried products. Our expertise in the processing of Beta Carotene is unsurpassed.

Cast Film Technology:

Watson's film lines are supported by two solution rooms, which are isolated to prevent cross contamination. Each is equipped with an independent environmental control system. In our solution rooms, Watson's selection of reactors allows for flexibility in solution batch sizes, ranging in volume from lab bench up to 3,000 gallons
Watson produces films on two stainless steel drying lines equipped with 316 grade stainless steel belts. Each drying line is approximately 100 feet in length.