You bring the brief
The animal, what needs treating, and how the farmer or owner will give the medicine — in feed, in drinking water, by injection, or into the mouth.
What is compounding?
Compounding means making a medicine to fit the job instead of taking whatever is already on the shelf. You tell us the animal, what needs treating and how the medicine has to be given. We choose the active from our own range, build the product around it, and manufacture it.
This page explains the idea in plain language, walks through what actually happens, and sets out clearly what Range Pharma can and cannot make.
The idea
Customised to what you need
Compounding is combining an active ingredient with the other materials it needs — carriers, solvents, flavours, stabilisers — so that it becomes a usable medicine for a particular animal, given in a particular way.
The active ingredient is the part that treats the animal, and we work from our own range of actives. On its own an active is usually a powder that will not dissolve properly, will not stay stable in the heat, and no animal would willingly swallow. Everything else in the product exists to fix that.
Why not just buy it
Off the shelf,
Off the shelf,
or made to fit
Both are real medicines made to the same standards. The difference is who the product was designed for.
Off the shelf
One product, many buyers
A finished product already exists in one strength, one pack and one form. It suits you if your animal, your dose and your market happen to match what it was designed for. If they don't, there is nothing to adjust.
Compounded
One brief, the right product
The active, the form, the strength, the flavour and the pack are chosen for that species, that indication and that market. A pig farm in a hot, humid climate and a cat in an apartment need different answers, even from the same active ingredient.
How it works
Four steps,
Four steps,
one site
Brief, bench, proof, production. Every step happens inside our own plant and our own labs.
We pick the active and design the recipe
We select the active from our own range, then our formulators pick the carriers, solvents and flavours that make it dissolve, stay put and taste acceptable to that species. That recipe is the formulation.
We prove it holds up
Small trial batches go into stability testing under tropical heat and humidity, and into hard farm water, so we know the product still works at the end of its shelf life.
We manufacture it
The approved recipe is scaled to production in our PIC/S GMP plant — any batch size you need — filled into the agreed pack format, tested by our own labs and released with full batch paperwork.
Scope
What we can make,
What we can make,
and what we can't
What we can do
Veterinary products, formulated around what you need treated
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Formulate around your animal and your problem You tell us the species, the indication and how the medicine has to be given. We select the active from our own range and build the whole product around it.
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Six dosage-form platforms Sterile injections, water-soluble powders, water-soluble liquids, oral pumps, pastes and gels, feed additive premixes, disinfectants and topicals.
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Livestock and companion animals Poultry, swine, ruminants and aqua at herd scale — plus dogs, cats, small pets and equine at single-animal scale.
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Reformulate an existing product Same active, different form or strength: a powder that has to become a liquid, a dose that has to suit a smaller animal, a pack that has to suit a different market.
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Any batch size Trial quantities through to full production runs. Every batch goes through the same GMP production, quality control and batch documentation.
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Make it survive a tropical farm Stability studies under heat and humidity, and solubility testing in hard, high-mineral water — the conditions our markets actually run in.
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Make it in a certified plant One site, in-house from formulation through fill: PIC/S GMP, ISO 9001 and a meat-free facility, with our own chemistry and microbiology labs.
What we can't do
Outside our licences, our facility or how we work
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Work from an active you supply We formulate only with actives from our own range. We do not take in a customer's active ingredient and build a product around it.
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OEM or white-label manufacturing We do not manufacture under someone else's brand. What we compound is a Range Pharma formulation, made and supplied as a Range product.
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Vaccines and biologics Live or killed vaccines, sera and antibody products need a separate biologics licence and a dedicated facility. We do not make them.
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Controlled and scheduled drugs Narcotics, psychotropics and other controlled actives fall outside our licences.
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One-off prescription compounding We are a manufacturer, not a compounding pharmacy. We cannot mix a single dose for one named animal, and we do not supply individual pet owners or walk-in farms.
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Bypass a market's registration rules Whether a given product can be sold for a given species depends on that country's registration and prescribing rules. We can support the dossier; we cannot skip it.
Common questions
The things
The things
buyers ask first
Is compounding the same as making a generic?
Not quite. A generic copies an existing product's form and strength. Compounding starts from what you need — the active, the species, the route and the market — and builds the product to fit, which may be a form nobody sells yet.
Do I need to know which active ingredient I want?
No. Bring the species, the problem and how the medicine has to be given, and our R&D team selects the active from our own range and develops the formula. If you already have something specific in mind, tell us and we will say whether it is in our range.
Can you make it under our brand?
No. Range Pharma does not do OEM or white-label manufacturing. What we compound is a Range Pharma formulation, made and supplied as a Range product.
Is there a minimum batch size?
No. We run anything from trial quantities to full production, and every batch goes through the same GMP production, quality control and batch documentation.
How long does it take?
It depends on how much development the product needs. A form we already run with a familiar active is fast; a new formulation that needs its own stability programme takes longer. We give an indicative timeline once we have the brief.
Next step
Have an animal
Have an animal
and a problem?
Send us the species, what you need treated and the market. We'll come back with an active, a dosage form recommendation and an indicative timeline.