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title: "Rescuing a product that wouldn't encapsulate"
description: "The eye-health tablet shipped in June 2024. An established Sydney natural health company with a multi-product range and export customers."
url: https://takefridayoff.com/work/eye-health-tablet-format-rescue
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# Rescuing a product that wouldn't encapsulate

https://takefridayoff.com/work/eye-health-tablet-format-rescue · Established brand

At a glance: Tablet and capsules · TGA-listed medicines · A format rescue, then a range

**The brand.** An established Sydney natural health company with a multi-product range and export customers.

**The challenge.** An eye-health formula kept failing in encapsulation because the ingredient mix was too wet, and hand-filling would have added one to two more months.

**What we built.** We moved the formula to a direct-compression tablet, got samples approved, and designed the stability protocol needed to support a three-year expiry. Across the relationship we developed and quoted nine products for the brand, spanning eye health, omega-3s, probiotics, liver, immune, prostate and more, and took three into production.

**Manufacturing and delivery.** We managed every production run through to delivery, including the change of format mid-project.

**The result.**
- The eye-health tablet shipped in June 2024
- A fish oil and a krill oil capsule also in production, with the fish oil reordered

Every number and timeline is from Take Friday Off’s project records. Manufacturers are never named.