Flexicon Product Range
Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical Products
Bulk material handling engineered for potency, purity and compliance.
Pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production runs on precision. Every batch — from an active pharmaceutical ingredient to a finished multivitamin blend — has to move through your plant without picking up contamination, losing potency, or putting an operator at risk. Flexicon Africa designs and builds bulk material handling systems that keep pace with that standard: dust-tight conveying, validated cleanability, and gentle handling for materials that range from free-flowing excipients to fragile, moisture-sensitive actives.
Whether you’re blending nutraceutical powders, or filling finished-dose packaging lines, we engineer equipment around your material’s specific behaviour — not the other way around.
Materials & End Products We Handle
Flexicon Africa equipment moves the full range of bulk ingredients used across pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production, and the finished products they become.
| Bulk materials handled | End products manufactured |
| Activated carbon, fumed silica | Amino acids, multivitamins |
| Calcium carbonate, tricalcium phosphate | Probiotics, prebiotics |
| Microcrystalline cellulose, lactose | Glucosamine, joint care formulations |
| Corn starch, potato starch, moulding starch | Protein and pre-workout powders |
| Dextrose, sucrose, granular sugar | Fish oil and softgel-fill powders |
| Gelatine, methylcellulose | Herbal and botanical powders |
| Vitamin mix, whey protein, soy protein | Iron, magnesium, calcium supplements |
| Zinc oxide, polyethylene glycol | Weight management and energy products |
| Epsom salt, dicalcium phosphate | Film coatings and excipient blends |
Equipment Configured for Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical Applications
Sanitary Bulk Bag Filler with Metal Detection
A bulk bag filling system engineered with an integrated metal detector, catching tramp metal before it reaches the finished bag — critical for ingredient purity in regulated production.
Sanitary Mobile Flexible Screw Conveyor
Stainless-steel, fully enclosed conveying that moves between process areas on castors, built to 3-A dairy-accepted standards and designed for rapid disassembly and thorough cleandown between batches.
TIP-TITE® Drum Dump Feeder
A sealed drum-tipping and feeding system that empties drummed ingredients into downstream processing without exposing operators or product to open dust.
Engineered for Compliance, Built for Throughput
Proven in the Field
Bulk Handling Engineered to GMP Standards, Built Locally Since 1999
Pharmaceutical and nutraceutical powders leave no margin for error. Fine, hygroscopic, and contamination-sensitive, they turn a dusting incident or cross-contamination event into a failed batch, a regulatory finding, or a safety liability — not just a line stoppage. Flexicon designs conveying, bulk bag handling, and dust-containment systems built to move these materials cleanly, accurately, and in full compliance with GMP standards.
Flexicon Africa has engineered and manufactured its full equipment range from Gqeberha since 1999, giving South African pharmaceutical and nutraceutical producers local access to a company with more than 25,000 installations worldwide. That matters more than ever as the country’s sports nutrition and supplement sector expands rapidly — much of it regulated to the same standard as pharmaceutical products.
The case study below shows that engineering in action right here in South Africa: how Flexicon helped Globepak scale to 360+ products across seven automated lines while eliminating cross-contamination risk entirely.
Read Our Pharmaceutical & Nutraceutical Products Case Studies →