Orbalife International Limited
We are leading dairy collaborators from New Zealand, developing balanced nutritional solutions from the highest quality goat and cow’s milk. Combining advanced science with the nature of New Zealand, we deliver premium, value added milk solutions across the complete circle of lifestages. A trusted partner, Orbalife operates a transparent value chain, dedicated to delivering milk nutrition safely and sustainably from grass-to-glass.
Our Services
We encourage longstanding partnerships, dedicated to secure food safety, nutrition and sustainable business performance. Our services include:
- Product design
- Milk powder formulation blending
- Packing in cans, sachets and pouches
- Laboratory testing
- Import and export documentation
- Grass-to-glass traceability
Ethics
We are committed to producing the highest quality products on the market, adhering to local and international standards for business operations, production processes and milk products.
- RMP, HACCP, PRP, CNCA, CFDA
- RMP registered
- FSSC: ISO 22000-Q (in compliance with ISO 9001: 2008, ISO 14001)
- IANZ (Laboratory Certification)
- Chinese GMP
- Kosher
- Halal
- WQA (Woolworths Quality Assured)
- EU Registered
Fineboon, our Chinese partner and shareholder, supports a direct relationship with China. Working with Farmers Corner in Ashburton establishes Orbalife International as a core community institution for both locals and visitors. We partner with AsureQuality to ensure food safety and nutritional quality of our products. We are members of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.
Our People
Orbalife International is a team of experienced industry leaders, developing balanced lifestage nutritional solutions from the highest quality goat and bovine milk.
Leading nutritional products are developed through our performance partnerships, supported by an open collaborative operating model. Our trusted partner organisation brings together the very best in researchers, farmers, developers, nutritionists, suppliers and distributors to innovate in a new age of dairy nutrition.
Staff
With over 30 years of industry experience working globally with world leaders in dairy, Dr Werkman’s distinguished career in food science engineering is ideally suited in designing and commissioning Orbalife International’s advanced Innovac™ manufacturing facility. With qualifications in chemistry and microbiology including a medical degree, he brings considerable knowledge of protein separation and UF-micro filtration in the development of advanced human nutrition products.
With management and financial experience in both the agriculture and nutritional health foods sectors, Nick has a deep practical understanding of the financial requirements across both established and start-up operations. Nick uses his expertise to develop the foundation for the vision of Orbalife International. A certified Chartered Accountant with a Master in Investment Finance, Nick specialises in health and nutrition for Asian markets, using advisory skills in planning, strategy and finance.
Brad leads the team at Orbalife International across all departments to ensure systems run efficiently, maintaining our high standards of operation and delivering on targets for production. With extensive experience as a leader across the dairy industry, Brad uses his relationship management skills to develop and manage the team. Enforcing key quality systems and frequent audits, he ensures that our products are manufactured under the highest hygiene and safety standards.
Paul has over 10 years experience in the dairy industry, specialising in working with start-ups, establishing quality operating systems for new plants. At Orbalife International, Paul oversees all aspects of production quality and processes through our advanced Innovac™ manufacturing plant. Leading collaborations with the team, Paul has implements and manages all required quality standards including RMP, HACCP and PRPs.
Sarah uses her 10+ years in the New Zealand dairy industry as the benchmark for how she manages her supply chain relationships. She is an inherent problem solver with a key understanding of reporting and performance to inform sales and delivery. With a customer focussed outlook, she works closely with the sales and supply teams to achieve the desired outcome for both Orbalife International and our partners.
With a degree in microbiology, John ensures each product that leaves our plant is of the highest quality, safely sealed by our Innovac™ processing technology. Maintaining the high product standards of our goat and cow’s milk, he ensures Orbalife nutritional solutions travel safely and securely from grass-to-glass. He also acts as a point of contact for our Chinese partners, managing our relationships in Asia and translanting information.
Innovac™
Advanced Vacuum System
Advanced packing technology, ensuring pure nutritional qualities of milk are safely and hygienically sealed within.
Orbalife International and Innovac™
Orbalife International brings together science and nature through developing high-value nutritional products. Our new, state-of-the-art factory has been considerately designed around a continuous vacuum-based powder blending and packing system. Advanced technology seals in the best nutrients of goat and cow’s milk through hygenic and gentle processing system.
Our Partnerships
Leading nutritional products are developed through our performance partnerships, supported by an open collaborative operating model. Our trusted partner organisation brings together the very best in researchers, farmers, developers, nutritionists, suppliers and distributors to innovate in a new age of dairy nutrition.
The Innovac™ System
Optimises Flavour Profiles
Ultra-Hygenic
Adaptable and Versatile for Efficiency
Vacuum Seals Nutritional Qualities
Superior Blend Quality
Optimises Shelf Life
What is Innovac™?
We use only the best in goat and cow’s milk, sourced from audited farming properties. Our Innovac™ process ensures that the pure nutritional benefits of our products are safely and hygienically sealed within. Using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, we ensure the ultimate efficiency in processing through advanced vacuum packing and blending technology.
Premium Benefits
Advanced vacuum technology enables superior blending methods compared to traditional mechanical stirrers. Limited product intervention minimises the risk of damage to powdered ingredients, without compromising on a high-quality blend.
The Innovac™ processing plant is expertly designed to have minimal invasive impact on material through low oxygen blending. This optimises product freshness, retaining natural qualities and high nutrients levels.
For ultimate flexibility, the Innovac™ system is able to adapt to cost-effective short runs, eliminating costs and quality losses associated with maintaining higher stock levels in our partners supply chain.
Innovac™ uses advanced Bosch and Indosa systems to gently and efficiently pack product with the utmost awareness for hygiene. The systems has capabilities to pack sachets, pouches and cans.
The Innovac™ plant virtually eliminates the chance for mechanical and airborne contamination during processing. Our partner organisation can entrust in us their reputation though our safe and secure system.
Our services for partners and clients includes internationally approved traceability with full supply chain verification, allowing consumers to digitally verify product authenticity and origins.
Orbalife
Balanced Lifestage Nutrition
Complete lifestage nutrition for the ultimate balance in wellbeing.
Complete Lifestage Nutrition
Care for our health development spans far beyond the infant years, with each stage of our lives requiring specialised nutrients to achieve a balanced wellbeing. Orbalife specialises in developing generation-led products. By partnering with researchers, farmers and nutritionists, we deliver complete lifestage nutrition, specific to each stage.
We use only the best in goat and cow’s milk, sourced from audited farming properties. Our Innovac™ process ensures that the pure nutritional benefits of our products are safely and hygienically sealed within.
Infant
0–3 Years
Youth
4–14 Years
Adult
15–50 Years
Senior
50+ Years
Features
From the earliest human memory, milk has been central to strengthening our whole health. With more known properties than ever before, milk plays a vital role in solving many nutritional challenges people face across lifestages and lifestyles. Orbalife has developed leading goat and cow’s milk products to cater to these.
The advanced, busy world we live in brings with it the challenge of maintaining our health and wellbeing. People now have a heightened awareness of knowledge, with an increasing demand for nutritional supplements to aid in a balanced lifestyle. Orbalife’s value added formulas are scientifically designed to enrich wellbeing with the gift of nature's nutrients.
Soft and gentle, goat (caprine) milk caters to the dietary needs of those with lactose sensitivities, without compromising on nutritional value. A high value product that closely emulates human milk, Orbalife sources only the best in caprine milk from accredited New Zealand farmers.
Continual learning through science is at the core of how we develop products specific to each lifestage. Our partner organisation brings together the very best in researchers, developers, nutritionists, suppliers and distributors to collaborate on new age dairy nutrition.
Clean and safe environments, nutrient-rich forage and a caring approach to animal welfare ensures the ultimate purity in product from grass-to-glass. Working together with our farmers and suppliers, we manage optimal environments to produce first quality milk.
Orbalife recognises that in today's world, traceability and assurance of authenticity is important to our customers. This is why our formulas come with an internationally approved traceability system, allowing tracking of the products origin and history through a mobile phone application.
Our Location
Situated in the heart of Ashburton, our new, state-of-the-art production facility is strategically positioned to collaborate with the future hub of goat farming in New Zealand. A new drying facility is currently being built next to the processing plant. The rapid development in this region will seamlessly allow us to process milk products from locals farmers, through to the end product. The on-site display centre caters to locals and visitors, sharing the Orbalife story using the best of New Zealand milk.
9 Ashford Avenue
Ashburton Business Estate, Newland
Ashburton 7772, New Zealand