Waitaki Biosciences

Biologically derived ingredients for nutritional supplement and food manufacturers

Waitaki Biosciences manufacture speciality nutritional ingredients from natural, New Zealand, biological sources. Nutritional ingredients provide support for the body's natural mechanism of healing and repair. Supporting these natural mechanisms leads to enhanced general health and improved quality of life.

Focus

Waitaki's key nutritional ingredients targets joint and bone health. The benefits of these ingredients are backed by sound, independently published, research. Predominately these ingredients are used by Waitaki's clients in the USA, Asia and Europe in formulations for both human and animal nutritional supplements.

The Waitaki Heritage

Waitaki takes its name from the Waitaki River; it was in this region that Waitaki's first factory was built. In 1882 the New Zealand Refrigeration Company, later to merge with Waitaki Industries to form Waitaki International Limited, shipped New Zealand's first ever frozen consignment of lamb to the United Kingdom. From those pioneering days over 100 years ago, Waitaki grew to become the world's largest sheep processor, with turnover in excess of 1,000 million dollars and employing over 20,000 staff.

In the 1970's Waitaki International established a new business division to add value to animal co-products. Offering pure, high efficacy ingredients and targeting the nutritional and pharmaceutical sectors, the venture was later to become known as Waitaki Biosciences International Ltd.

Although Waitaki International's assets were sold in the mid 1980's as part of a major rationalisation of New Zealand's meat processing industry, Waitaki Biosciences maintained its identity and continued to prosper, exporting pharmaceutical, diagnostic and nutritional supplements into the United States, Europe and Asia.

Waitaki is now a division of Pharmazen Ltd., an innovative manufacturer of natural animal supplements.

The Waitaki River has been harnessed over the last 75 years for its energy. It has become one of the most valuable sources of environmentally friendly and clean hydroelectric power in New Zealand. The river and the use it has been put to, epitomises Waitaki's philosophy of sourcing raw materials locally from New Zealand's clean environment, gentle and environmentally clean production processes delivering high quality natural ingredients for an expanding nutritional marketplace.

Waitaki's Commitment

Waitaki is committed to innovation, technical support, quality and our customers. With worldwide markets, Waitaki prides itself on being able to tailor solutions to meet market and individual customer requirements. Waitaki is dedicated to developing specialised nutritional supplements ingredients from locally sourced raw materials, which are amongst the world's cleanest. Building long term relationships and assisting clients to develop competitive advantage in their chosen market is an important part of Waitaki's culture.

Quality - Products, Processing and Service

Waitaki takes great care in ensuring only the highest quality materials and environmentally friendly manufacturing processes are utilised. This philosophy of delivering quality ingredients with maximum nutritional value and bio-efficacy is an integral part of our company ethos.

Our quality control systems underpin product safety. Fully trained staff are committed to achieving the highest levels of hygiene and product integrity. The proprietary manufacturing processes that convert these source materials into ingredients occurs at Waitaki's own manufacturing facility that is purpose built meeting FDA, USDA and EU requirements and operates using internally and externally audited quality systems.

Research and Development

Waitaki's unique set of competencies combines science and processing expertise, enabling us to offer un-paralleled service and creative product solutions. Waitaki's in-house technical resources, together with access to universities and research organisations, enable the company to provide total solutions to client requirements, from collaborative new product development to providing technical support and detailed product information to client's R&D and marketing departments.