Tablets — OEM & Private Label — Sports & Fitness

Tablets remain the most cost-effective high-volume supplement format — the highest active loading per unit, the longest shelf life and the simplest logistics. Hubogen compresses and coats tablets in-house, from chewable and effervescent to film-coated and sustained-release. As a tablet manufacturer, Hubogen offers custom tablet OEM from chewable to film-coated and sustained-release.

Why brands choose tablets

• Lowest cost per dose — the most economical format for large-volume programmes.
• High active loading — pack a multi-ingredient formula into one unit.
• Long shelf life — low moisture and a compressed matrix give excellent stability.
• Coating options — film, sugar, enteric and sustained-release.
• Chewable and dispersible variants for those who dislike swallowing pills.

Format at a glance

• Weight — 250 mg to 1,500 mg typical.
• Shapes — round, oval, oblong and caplet.
• Coatings — uncoated, film, sugar, enteric or sustained-release.
• Variants — chewable, effervescent, dispersible.
• Packaging — bottles, blister packs or strip packs.

Specification range

Tablet weights typically range from 250 mg to 1,500 mg, in round, oval, oblong or caplet shapes. We offer uncoated, film-coated and sugar-coated finishes, plus chewable, effervescent, dispersible and sustained-release variants. Hardness, disintegration time and coating weight are tuned to your market.

Typical applications

Multivitamin and multimineral tablets, vitamin C and zinc, calcium and magnesium, iron and folic acid, glucosamine and chondroitin, herbal extracts such as ginseng and ginkgo, weight-management and sports-nutrition formulas, and buffered or effervescent vitamin C.

What decides whether a project runs smoothly

• Compression vs disintegration — pressing harder gives a robust tablet that dissolves slower; decide the priority early.
• Direct compression or granulation — granulation costs more but handles higher doses and poorer-flowing blends.
• Coating — for taste, odour, colour or release; a coated tablet is a different specification.
• Brittleness in transit — a tablet that survives the press can still chip in a bottle on a long route.
• Score lines — a scored tablet must split evenly, constraining shape and thickness.

Sourcing and specification notes

• Compression pressure and heat affect sensitive actives — probiotics lose potency under tableting conditions.
• Tablet size is a physical ceiling on dose and swallowability.
• Coating decisions are made at specification stage because they change the core formulation.
• Blend uniformity is the leading cause of assay variation, especially for low-dose actives.
• Multi-layer and bi-layer tablets are possible where two actives need to be separated.

Quality and shelf life

Tablets are released against hardness, disintegration and uniformity — checked on the finished unit, not just the bulk blend. Heat-sensitive actives are processed at a temperature set against the ingredient. Shelf life is stated on the spec sheet and confirmed against stability data; most failures are moisture or oxygen ingress through the pack, not the product.