We invite you to drop by and tour our manufacturing facility. Hillestad
Pharmaceuticals® is located on highway 51 (1/2 mile north of hwy 47 & 51
intersection) in Woodruff.
See vitamins, minerals, protein tablets, herbs , skin cremes and
lotions manufactured using natural source nutrients. Open Monday through Friday.
Tours are available between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. Walk ins are welcome. Don't
miss it.
In our warehouse we have over five thousand different raw materials in
inventory. These raw materials are from the highest quality natural sources. We
are large enough to meet any of your need yet small enough to produce unique specialized products. |
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develop private label formula as well as a variety of our own products. We have the
capacity to manufacture from 100,000 to over 50 million tablets and to
manufacture protein powders, cremes, lotions and liquids.
The first
step in our manufacturing process is the weighing of the different nutrients.
After each raw material is weighed and double checked, it is ready for the
granulation department. |
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In the mixing department the raw materials are
mixed and blended. The blending of our materials is like preparing a cake from
scratch, by mixing and blending our own ingredients we are certain of
the freshness and quality that goes into each product.
In the tableting department the powder is pressed
into tablets. The presses create ten thousand pounds of pressure per square inch
to create a tablet. Some of our presses can produce over a million tablets a
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After the tablets are pressed they are coated to
seal the tablet. This locks in the potency and eliminates any odor or aftertaste
when taking the product. This coating also makes the tablet easier to swallow
than an uncoated one.
The coating process is done in two different ways. One method is a high speed
coating machine. This machine will coat a quarter of a million tablets or more
in one hour. |
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The other coating method we use to coat tablets is by using the stainless
steel coating pans. As the pans turn the special coating material is carefully
added. As the tablets tumble they coat on each other. Each pan can hold up to
sixty thousand tablets.
We have a complete packaging department with many
types of packaging and filling equipment to meet the needs of our customers. |
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Our plant has specialized powder filling equipment
to fill powder in cans.
The packaging department has different tablet counting, bottle filling and labeling machines to assure your getting the right amount of tablets in a securely sealed properly labeled bottle. |
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We can even fill our liquid or creme product in
our liquid filling department.
In our quality control lab, all the products must
pass strict quality control tests before being released.
All tablets are tested
for disintegration time. If the tablets don't pass this test they are rejected.
We also use independent testing labs assuring you of the finest quality and safe
family products. |
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Many of the Hillestad® unique and specialized tablets are layered, separating
the vitamins from the minerals. This is a unique process Hillestad® offers.
A glimpse of some of our tablets shows you the
appearance and quality that we pride ourselves in. |
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