News \ Food Supplements - N°65 QUESTIONS TO ANTOINE LAGARDE Actif’s Magazine : Actif’s Magazine : This new industrial site, what does/will it Beyond this industrial aspect, what bring for you in the upcoming months? are the other advantages? Antoine Lagarde : Antoine Lagarde : The new site allows the laboratory to be the master the new site is also a very effective tool of its own destiny. We can choose what we want of internal and external communication. and are able to produce, we can master the entire Internally, it allows us to mobilize and chain - as of the stage of raw material acquisition federate all our collaborators. Externally, and storage up to order processing. We can thus it helps us show to our distributors and address the future developments we are envisaging. Both on our main market, which is France, and prescribers (Editor’s note: Nutergia organizes in terms of exports. We have speci c ranges nearly 350 training courses for the health depending on the country where the products are to professionals) that we are genuine French be distributed. We can thus formulate and produce manufacturers and explain them what our supplements that are really adapted to the needs food supplements are. The new site is a of the markets whilst maintaining the same quality showcase that allows us to follow things level.We are therefore increasing our exibility. through to their end: highlight our expertise.■ 049 Nutergia strengthen its development - the many: together with those intended for NUTRITION laboratory that has a CAGR of 15% since certain markets, “we produce nearly 165 CELLULAIRE 2009, year that marked its entry into the references on this site”. Hence, the pro- ACTIVE® top 10 of players on the French market, duction process has to be flexible. An ERP achieved in 2017 a sales turnover of more is currently being deployed. The objective of this than €43 million (out of which nearly €7 The quality of the productions is closely concept is to get back to the source of million on exports). Nutergia has become linked to that of the raw materials. “Our dysfunction of the body, the second micronutrion French labora- added value is also related to that of the namely the cell. It aims tory sold in pharmacies and the 3rd on the raw materials. This is why we never hesi- therefore to restore optimal cell function by French market. tate to choose the best of them and work providing the required with selected suppliers (Editor’s note: 350 nutrient physiological “active” raw materials and 70suppliers),” levels. ◗A strong asset: raw materials Thomas Hugonnenc says. As a result, in The new production facility (2,200 m2) Nutergia’s industrial cost, “raw materials operates for the time being on a single weigh almost the double as compared to work shift. The production itself (solid and that of our competitors”. liquid forms) takes place in white rooms The attention paid to raw materials, which starting with the weighing process (under are as natural as possible, reflects Nuter- laminar flow) and up to the primary pac- gia’s willingness to develop the local supply kaging (bottles, capsules, bags, etc.). chains (borage, and soon to be primrose), “Our production expertise relates to the to reference organic-certified plants or fact thatwe don’t use any excipients or non-threatened wild plant species. While additives,” Industrial Manager Thomas always keeping in mind the preservation Hugonnenc says. Nearly 95% of formulas of the environment as a corner stone, and are complexes and the references are sustainable “growth” as a driver.■ News on Functional & Health Ingredients \ N°65 \ October - November - December 2018 \ ■