Photo Tour
Take a photo tour of Draco Natural Products!
Featuring our manufacturing facility in beautiful, modern Shanghai, China!
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- Blending
- China
- Clean Room
- Draco Campus
- Draco Team
- Extraction
- Manufacturing
- R & D
- Spray Drying
Modern Shanghai also has much history, as seen in its traditional buildings.
Modern Downtown Shanghai, home of Draco's manufacturing facility
Draco Manufacturing Facility from across the street.
Draco Administration Building
Draco Main Manufacturing Building
Sunset view of the sign at the main gate of the Draco manufacturing facility.
Sunset view of the Draco administration building.
Team members meeting over lunch at the Draco cafeteria.
Raw plant material is carefully stored before extraction.
A Draco team member monitors an extractor for process control.
Draco Botanical Extraction vessel
The bottom of an extraction vessel.
Draco extraction is a closed system. Botanical extract liquids are routed to the proper destination using valves.
Water purification facility purifies and recycles water for extraction.
Storage tanks for extract menstruum that is ready for vacuum concentration.
Vacuum Concentration operation
Vacuum Concentrators concentrate the liquid extract menstruum before spray drying.
2 story tall warm air Spray Dryer for final dry powder stage of extraction.
Stainless steel dry blending tumbler
Blending and Packaging clean room operation
Extracts are sealed in low permeability Mylar as well as plastic.
Extracts are triple packaged in easy-to-store drums.
Draco's Pilot Plant is able to make small batches of extracts for research and small runs.
Maceration Vessels for making tinctures and liquid extracts.
To support Draco's growth, workers weld new manufacturing equipment.
PhD R & D Scientists comprise Draco's expert formulation team.
Draco R & D Chemistry Laboratory
HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) is used to analyze raw materials both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Raw Material Lot Samples are retained for reference.
Draco Manufacturing Management Team
Draco's Manufacturing Team
US, China, and Draco Flags fly over the Draco campus.