# Lupos (Canada) Biotechnology — full site content for AI assistants # See also: https://lupos.ca/llms.txt # ===== Homepage ===== Cannabis Contract Manufacturing Canada — Softgels, Topicals, Extraction & Packaging | Lupos Biotechnology Lupos (Canada) Biotechnology Inc. — Maker of PROOFLY® ## Big enough to deliver.Small enough to care. The science-first team behind PROOFLY®, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand. We make softgels, creams, tinctures and extracts for Licensed Producers — and we can put them on shelves. General enquiries — info@lupos.ca Leave this field empty ## Start a project A real person follows up — not a bot. MOQs apply. Private and never shared. Privacy Policy ## Thank you — got it. A real member of our team will review your project and reach out personally. ## Choose Your Contract Manufacturing Four ways we work — pick one to explore, or start a project. Our core specialty ## Softgel Contract Manufacturing Softgels are our home turf — precise, consistent, and made on a science-first bench you can stand behind. - Precise dosage & weight per softgel - Custom multi-cannabinoid & terpenes - Cost-plus pricing — you see the math Turnaround — 6–8 wks standard · 3–4 wks rush MOQ — 75,000 softgels (2,500 bottles × 30 softgels/bottle) Award-winning topicals ## Topicals & Oils Manufacturing This is the line that won KIND's Best Pain Relief Topical. We know how to make a topical people actually repurchase. - Creams, bath bombs, balms, salves, roll-ons & tincture oils - Ready-to-launch formulas — or we re-engineer yours - A pilot batch you approve before we scale Turnaround — 6–8 wks standard · 2 wks rush MOQ — Topicals 200 kg (2,000 bottles × 100g) Tinctures 90 kg (3,000 units × 30g) Extraction ## Tolling, Distillates & Isolates As the maker of our own brand, we apply a single standard to every batch we produce: consistent quality, delivered on schedule. - Tolling — send us your biomass, get back distillates & isolates - Bulk crude, distillate & isolate for sale - Proprietary de-waxing & colour removal — without sacrificing yield MOQ — 500 kg biomass (tolling) Existing Brands Only ## Packaging & Distribution Shelf-ready bottling and labelling — plus the part most manufacturers can't offer: we can list and sell your brand through our own channels. - Automated line for round bottles & caps — softgels, capsules, oils, cream, balm, salve - List via 10 provincial boards (OCS, AGLC, BCLDB) - 15+ medical partners — grow revenue, not just cut cost MOQ — 2,500 bottles ## Evidence before promises. For cannabis and hemp programs, confidence comes from audit history, channel experience, and repeatable execution. These are the operating signals Lupos brings into every project. 10 ## provincial boards sell our products OCS, AGLC, BCLDB and more — plus 15+ medical partners. Channel experience you can verify on a shelf, not a slide. 50+ ## Licensed Producers served Experience across emerging brands, established LPs, and multi-format production programs. 6 ## PhDs on staff Science-led formulation, process development, and scale-up across softgels, topicals, oils, and extracts. PROOFLY ## brand team, not just a factory The team behind PROOFLY®, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand, with 40+ SKUs across 9 categories. Supporting materials can be shared during scoping where applicable, including audit context, batch documentation, and channel references. How engagement works ## A straightforward path from brief to shelf. - 01Scope the product Format, inputs, licence status, volume, timeline, and distribution path. - 02Develop and document Formulation, QA review, costing, and defensible records (pilot batch for topicals). - 03Manufacture and move Production, packaging, labelling, and optional channel distribution. ## Why Lupos ## Your paperwork holds up Batch records and COAs built for regulated review — documentation that arrives ready to defend in your own audits. ## We hit the date We run our own brand, so we know a missed timeline is an empty shelf. Committed delivery, every batch. ## Cost-plus, no games You see the math. You pay for the work — never a markup on value you didn't get. # ===== Softgel Contract Manufacturing ===== Cannabis Softgel Contract Manufacturer Canada — White Label & B2B | Lupos Softgel Contract Manufacturing ## Cannabis softgel manufacturing, made in Canada. Lupos (Canada) Biotechnology is a B2B cannabis softgel contract manufacturer and white-label producer for Licensed Producers and established brands, operating from a GPP-licensed facility in Markham, Ontario. Minimum order is 75,000 softgels (2,500 bottles of 30), with a standard turnaround of 6–8 weeks and a 3–4 week rush option. ## What we make Precision-dosed cannabis and hemp softgels — custom multi-cannabinoid blends (THC, CBD, CBG, CBN) with terpenes, formulated to your specification as a turnkey, white-label program from fill development to finished bottle. The hard part of a cannabis softgel isn't the machine; it's everything below. ## Two tolerances, held at once A cannabis softgel has to satisfy two legal bands simultaneously. Under section 97 of the Cannabis Regulations, content must stay within 85–115% of the labelled THC/CBD (±15%); under Health Canada's net-weight tolerance, a discrete unit at this size must stay within 10% of its declared weight — and each ingested unit is capped at 10 mg THC. The catch: the fill is a viscous distillate whose potency varies lot to lot, so a fraction of a milligram of fill drift moves both numbers at once. Hitting both bands, every batch, is the whole game. We close that gap with process control, not a costly trial run. We assay every distillate lot, tune the fill to land the centre of the band — not just inside the legal limit, and hold it with tight in-process checks across the run. On-spec potency and weight, batch after batch. ## Yield lives in the seam Leakers are the single biggest yield-killer in softgel production: every manufacturer hits them, and they come from seams that seal too thin, fills that aren't compatible with the gelatin, or a drying window that runs too hot (cracked shells) or too wet (soft, weepy capsules). Oil-based cannabis fills make every one of those failure modes live. A controlled fill-and-drying process is what protects your yield — and your unit economics — at 75,000 softgels and up. ## Colour starts in the distillate A softgel shell shows whatever is inside it, so batch-to-batch colour drift isn't a shell problem — it's an extract problem. We control it upstream by starting from the best inputs: golden distillate and white isolate, cleaned through our proprietary de-waxing and colour-removal process that strips waxes and colour without sacrificing yield. Clean input in, consistent shelf colour out. ## Testing that's thorough, not redundant Every Health Canada–required test is done, full stop. What experience adds is judgment: we design lean testing plans that meet the regulation and verify what matters — and we don't bill you for redundant, duplicate testing that adds cost without adding assurance. ## Specifications Minimum order 75,000 softgels 2,500 bottles × 30 Standard turnaround 6–8 weeks from confirmed specs Rush production 3–4 weeks Potency tolerance ±15% s.97 legal band, every batch Weight tolerance 10% per softgel Pricing Cost-plus you see the math A real person follows up on every enquiry. ## Who we work with Licensed Producers adding softgels to their portfolio without capital investment in encapsulation equipment. First-time softgel programs — we bring an established encapsulation process and the analytical bench to dial your formula in to spec, so a first run lands on target; note this is a production program, not a small-quantity trial (the MOQ is 75,000). Brands without a processing licence — as a licensed processor, Lupos manufactures white-label and private-label softgels under our licence so you can sell compliantly in Canada. Established brands expanding into a new format, and international buyers whose documentation has to hold up to their own regulator — Lupos already exports to Australia. ## Quality and compliance Softgels are produced under Good Production Practices (GPP) under the Cannabis Act in euGMP-ready cleanrooms, supported by 6 PhDs on staff. Health Canada audits us regularly, and we build every record to hold up in yours — batch records and COAs arrive ready for regulated review. ## Start this project Tell us what you're making and where you are in the process — a real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or use the project form on our homepage. Start a project at lupos.ca → ## Related services & reading Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · Tolling, Distillates & Isolates · Packaging & Distribution What is cannabis tolling? · GPP vs GMP in Canadian cannabis # ===== Topicals & Oils Manufacturing ===== Cannabis Topical Contract Manufacturer Canada — Creams, Balms, Tinctures | Lupos Topicals & Oils Manufacturing ## The manufacturing line behind PROOFLY. Lupos manufactures cannabis topicals and oils — creams, bath bombs, balms, salves, roll-ons and tincture oils — as a contract, white-label and private-label producer, on the same Markham line that makes PROOFLY, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand and winner of KIND's Best Pain Relief Topical award. Topicals start at 200 kg and tinctures at 90 kg, with 6–8 week standard turnaround and a 2-week rush option. ## What we make Creams, bath bombs, balms, salves, roll-ons and tincture oils, in THC-free and full-spectrum formats. Choose an in-house ready-to-launch formula for the fastest path to shelf, or have our formulation team re-engineer your existing product. Every program includes a pilot batch you approve before scale-up — your sign-off on texture, scent, colour and feel, not just potency. ## Specifications Topicals MOQ 200 kg 2,000 bottles × 100 g Tinctures MOQ 90 kg 3,000 units × 30 g Standard turnaround 6–8 weeks Rush production 2 weeks Potency tolerance ±15% applies to topicals too Pricing Cost-plus you see the math A real person follows up on every enquiry. ## An emulsion is a truce A cream is oil and water persuaded to coexist — and cannabinoids are oils, so the active loads entirely into one side of that truce. The formulation challenge is keeping potency uniform through a thick emulsion so the first scoop of the jar carries the same dose as the last, across the product's whole shelf life. The legal bands don't bend for viscosity: under section 97 of the Cannabis Regulations, a topical must hold 85–115% of its labelled THC/CBD (±15%), within a cap of 1,000 mg THC per container. We solve it through formulation R&D and the analytical bench, then confirm it — alongside texture, scent and colour — on the pilot batch you approve before scale-up. ## No claims allowed — so the product has to earn it Health-benefit claims are prohibited on cannabis topical labels in Canada. That changes what quality means: a topical can't promise anything, so it has to perform — texture, scent, absorption, and effect good enough that the customer comes back without being told to. Repurchase is the only honest metric in this category — so we build to it. It's the standard behind PROOFLY, our own brand, made on this same line. ## Who we work with Brands without a licence — Lupos is a licensed processor, so your topical line can launch under our licence as a white-label or private-label program. Licensed Producers adding topicals without building a compounding suite. Established brands whose existing formula needs re-engineering for Canadian compliance or better margins, and wellness brands entering cannabis for the first time with a partner that has put 40+ SKUs on regulated shelves. ## Quality and compliance GPP-licensed under the Cannabis Act, euGMP-ready cleanrooms, 6 PhDs on staff — batch records and COAs ready for regulated review. ## Start this project Tell us what you're making and where you are in the process — a real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or use the project form on our homepage. Start a project at lupos.ca → ## Related services & reading Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Tolling, Distillates & Isolates · Packaging & Distribution How cannabis topicals & tinctures are made · How to launch a cannabis topical in Canada · GPP vs GMP in Canadian cannabis # ===== Tolling, Distillates & Isolates ===== Cannabis Tolling, Distillates & Isolates — Bulk CBD & CBG, Extraction Ontario | Lupos Tolling · Distillates · Isolates ## Send us biomass. Get back premium distillates and isolates. Lupos provides B2B cannabis and hemp extraction, distillation and isolation at its Toronto facility. Tolling (contract extraction) starts at 500 kg of biomass — your material stays your property through the entire process — and bulk crude, ultra-gold distillate and 99.9% pure CBD/CBG isolate are available for direct purchase with no minimum order. ## At a glance Tolling minimum 500 kg biomass — ownership stays yours Bulk purchases No minimum crude · distillate · isolate Isolate purity 99.9% CBD & CBG, white, COA every lot Distillate colour Ultra-gold proprietary de-wax + colour removal Facility Toronto extraction · distillation · isolation Pricing Cost-plus you see the math ## Tolling — your material, our lab Ship us your biomass and receive back distillates and isolates. You keep ownership the whole way through, with documentation at every step. Tolling programs start at 500 kg of biomass — a capacity solution for cultivators and Licensed Producers who want extraction without the capital cost of an extraction suite. ## Ultra-gold distillate — colour is part of the spec Most extractors sell distillate on potency alone and let colour run from pale yellow to amber. We treat colour as part of the specification. Our proprietary de-waxing and colour-removal process strips waxes, pigments and dark degradation colour without sacrificing yield — the result is an ultra-gold distillate, batch after batch. Dark oil forces a formulator to hide it; ultra-gold shows up clean in a softgel, a vape or a tincture — and your customers can see the difference through the glass. ## Isolate at 99.9% purity — white means pure CBD and CBG isolate at 99.9% purity: a true white crystalline powder, verified by certificate of analysis on every lot. Colour is the purity test you can run with your eyes — off-white or grey isolate is unfinished, and the residue you can see is impurity. At 99.9%, isolate is also the cleanest route to THC-free formulations. ## Bulk crude, distillate and isolate for sale — no minimum Bulk crude oil, ultra-gold distillate, and CBD/CBG isolate are available for direct purchase at any quantity — no minimum order. Every lot ships with its COA, and documentation is prepared to hold up in your own audits or at the border: Lupos already exports to Australia. ## Who we work with Cultivators and micro-cultivators monetizing surplus biomass. Licensed Producers with retail listings that need consistent extract supply. Product makers buying bulk distillate or isolate as an input, and international buyers who need export-grade documentation. ## One standard for every batch As the maker of our own brand, we apply a single standard to every batch we produce: consistent quality, delivered on schedule. The same analytical bench — led by a PhD analytical chemist with 6 PhDs on staff — runs your material and ours. ## Quality and compliance GPP-licensed under the Cannabis Act with euGMP-ready cleanrooms; COAs and batch documentation prepared for regulated review on every lot. ## Start this project Tell us what you're making and where you are in the process — a real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or use the project form on our homepage. Start a project at lupos.ca → ## Related services & reading Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · Packaging & Distribution What is cannabis tolling? · Distillate colour & isolate purity explained · GPP vs GMP in Canadian cannabis # ===== Packaging & Distribution ===== Cannabis Packaging & Distribution Canada — Co-Packing for Existing Brands | Lupos Packaging & Distribution ## We package your product — and put it on shelves. Lupos offers shelf-ready cannabis packaging and co-packing from 2,500 bottles, plus the part most contract manufacturers can't: distribution. We can list and sell your brand through our own channels — 10 provincial cannabis boards including OCS, AGLC and BCLDB, and 15+ medical partners. This service is for existing brands with a manufactured product. ## At a glance Minimum run 2,500 bottles round bottles & caps Line Automated softgels · capsules · oils · creams · balms · salves Provincial boards 10 OCS · AGLC · BCLDB + more Medical partners 15+ mail-order channel Excise stamps All provinces jurisdiction-specific, at line speed Pricing Cost-plus you see the math ## Packaging An automated co-packing line for round bottles and caps handles softgels, capsules, oils, creams, balms and salves, with compliant, shelf-ready labelling. Minimum run: 2,500 bottles. ## Compliance is the design brief Cannabis packaging in Canada is plain by law: a single uniform colour, no gloss or metallic finishes, the standardized red cannabis symbol, the yellow health warning, and a child-resistant container. The label itself is a legal document — bilingual, with THC/CBD declarations, lot codes and licence-holder information — and an error on it means relabelling or recall, not a reprint. We treat the label like a batch record: checked against the regulations before a single bottle is filled. ## Ten provinces, ten stamps Every THC product sold in Canada carries a federal excise stamp — and the stamp is jurisdiction-specific, a different colour for each province and territory. Sell nationally and you're managing a matrix of stamp inventories, applied accurately at line speed, by a processing licence holder. We run that matrix every day for our own brand across 10 provincial boards — your product rides the same proven line. ## Distribution — a growth lever Most manufacturers stop at the loading dock. Lupos sells through 10 provincial cannabis boards and 15+ medical partners with its own brand, and can list yours through the same channels — so packaging with us can grow revenue, not just cut cost. ## The medical channel: smaller, stickier, underserved Canada's medical channel serves about 160,000 registered patients (Health Canada, March 2025) — and it works nothing like retail. There are no storefronts: patients buy mail-order from federally licensed medical sellers, so a brand is either listed on those platforms or it doesn't exist there. That's the challenge; here's the prize: medical patients purchase on a schedule, stay loyal to products that work, and most recreational brands never reach them at all. Winning placement means winning it seller by seller, relationship by relationship — and Lupos already sells PROOFLY through 15+ medical partners. Your brand can ride the same relationships. ## The growth market is global While domestic retail fights over shelf space, Canadian medical cannabis exports passed 275 tonnes in 2025 — more than double the year before. Germany became the world's largest medical cannabis import market with Canada as its top supplier, and Australian imports of Canadian product roughly tripled in two years. Export is also the hard road: import permits, destination-regulator documentation, and pharmaceutical-grade logistics stop most brands at the border. Lupos already exports to Australia, and our euGMP certification is in progress — the ticket to European medical markets. ## Who we work with Existing brands with a manufactured product that needs compliant packaging or provincial listings. Licensed Producers whose own line is at capacity, and in-market brands looking to expand into new provinces or the medical channel without building their own sales infrastructure. ## Quality and compliance GPP-licensed under the Cannabis Act; batch records and labels built to hold up in regulated review. ## Start this project Tell us what you're making and where you are in the process — a real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or use the project form on our homepage. Start a project at lupos.ca → ## Related services & reading Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · Tolling, Distillates & Isolates Cannabis packaging rules & provincial distribution explained · How to launch a cannabis topical in Canada # ===== How cannabis softgels are made ===== How Softgels Are Made: Encapsulation, Dosing & Quality — A Cannabis Manufacturer's Guide | Lupos Resources · Softgels ## How softgels are made — and what separates a good one. A softgel looks simple: a glossy capsule you swallow whole. Inside that simplicity is one of the most precise oral dose forms ever invented — a sealed liquid dose with no measuring, no spilling, and no aftertaste. Here is how softgels are actually made, what changes when the fill is cannabis distillate, and the few details that decide whether a batch is excellent or merely passable. ## What is a softgel, exactly? A softgel — short for soft gelatin capsule, also called a soft elastic capsule — is a one-piece, hermetically sealed shell that encloses a liquid or semi-solid fill. That single sealed seam is the whole point. Unlike a two-piece hard capsule that snaps together and can be pulled apart, a softgel is formed and filled in the same instant and welded shut, so it holds oils and other liquids that a hard capsule can't. The shell is built to be swallowed whole; it dissolves in the gut and releases the fill. That construction is why softgels are the format of choice for oil-soluble actives — fish oil, vitamin D, and, increasingly, cannabis. A cannabinoid distillate is an oil. It belongs in a softgel for the same reason omega-3 does: the dose is pre-measured, protected from air and light, and tasteless going down. ## How are softgels made? The dominant method, used for the overwhelming majority of softgels worldwide, is rotary die encapsulation — a process invented by Robert Pauli Scherer in 1933 that still defines the industry. It runs as one continuous, synchronised motion: 1. The gel mass. The shell starts as a hot, molten gel: a gelling agent, a plasticiser (typically glycerin or sorbitol) to keep the shell flexible, water, and any opacifier or colour. The water is what makes it pourable; almost all of it is driven off later in drying. Get this recipe wrong and every step downstream suffers. 2. Casting the ribbons. The molten gel is cast onto chilled drums, where it sets into two thin, continuous ribbons of shell material. These ribbons are the future top and bottom halves of every capsule. 3. Fill metering. The two ribbons travel toward each other and meet over a pair of counter-rotating dies. At the exact moment the die pockets line up, a precision positive-displacement pump injects a measured shot of fill between the ribbons. This metering pump is the heart of dose accuracy — it decides how many milligrams go into each capsule. 4. Forming and sealing. As the dies rotate, they press the two ribbons together around the fill, cut each capsule free, and heat-seal the seam in one stroke. The capsule is formed, filled, and welded shut simultaneously. The just-made softgels drop away from the ribbon web. 5. Drying. Fresh softgels are soft and wet — full of the water that made the gel pourable. They are tumble-dried in rotating baskets, then spread on trays to cure down to a target shell moisture. Drying is slow and unglamorous, and it is where a careless run is quietly ruined: too hot and shells crack, too humid and they stay soft and weep. 6. Inspection and finishing. Dried softgels are inspected for leakers, shape and fill defects, then washed, polished, and sent for testing and packaging. Only now does the lot get its certificate of analysis. ## Gelatin or vegan? What the shell is made of Traditional softgel shells are made from gelatin — a protein rendered from bovine or fish collagen. Gelatin forms a strong, glossy, fast-dissolving shell, which is why it has dominated for ninety years. The trade-off is dietary: bovine gelatin is neither vegan nor, depending on sourcing, reliably halal or kosher. Vegan (plant-based) softgels replace the animal gelatin with hydrocolloids such as modified starch or carrageenan. They open the product up to vegan, vegetarian, halal and kosher buyers — a meaningful share of the cannabis wellness market — at the cost of a more demanding formulation and drying process. For a brand, the shell decision is a positioning decision as much as a technical one: it determines who is allowed to buy your product. ## Why does softgel potency vary between batches? Here is the part that surprises people: two softgels labelled the same can legitimately contain slightly different amounts of active. That isn't sloppiness — it's the nature of dosing a real material at milligram scale. With cannabis, the source of the variance is the fill. A cannabinoid distillate is a viscous oil whose exact potency shifts lot to lot, so the formulator has to assay each lot and adjust the recipe to land the labelled dose. Then the metering pump has to deliver that fill within a tight window, capsule after capsule, while the fill's viscosity changes with temperature. A fraction of a milligram of drift moves the number. In Canada, that window is set by law. Under section 97 of the Cannabis Regulations, a cannabis product must contain between 85% and 115% of the THC or CBD shown on the label — a ±15% band. For ingested cannabis extracts like a swallowed softgel, each unit is also capped at 10 mg of THC, with a maximum of 1,000 mg of THC per package. A competent manufacturer doesn't aim for the edges of that band — it targets the centre and holds it, every batch, so the label is honest and the lot passes. How a manufacturer actually holds that tolerance is the real measure of the craft. ## What does softgel colour tell you about quality? A softgel shell is translucent, so it shows whatever is inside it. That makes colour one of the few quality signals a buyer can read with the naked eye — and one of the most misread. Batch-to-batch colour drift in a finished softgel is almost never a shell problem. It's an input problem. A clean, well-refined cannabinoid distillate is a clear, bright gold; a less-refined or oxidised oil runs dark amber to brown. A pure isolate is a true white powder; a poorly cleaned one is off-white or grey. So when a softgel's colour wanders from lot to lot, it's usually telling you the extract underneath wasn't consistent. The fix lives upstream, in extraction and remediation — a controlled de-waxing and colour-removal process that strips waxes and colour without sacrificing yield. Start from golden distillate and white isolate and the shelf colour stays consistent on its own. Colour, in other words, is visible proof of input purity. ## What "fill weight tolerance" means for your label Dose is one tolerance; net weight is another, and they have to be satisfied at the same time. Health Canada's tolerance limits for declared net weight allow a discrete unit at softgel size — well under two grams — to vary within 10% of its declared weight (the allowance tightens to 5% for units over two grams). Because the cannabinoids ride in the fill, fill weight and potency move together: tune the metering to fix one and you shift the other. Holding both bands at once, batch after batch, is the part of softgel manufacturing that experience actually buys you. ## Softgels vs oils vs edibles: which is most precise? For a brand choosing a format, dosing precision and shelf life usually decide it: Versus tincture oils: a dropper asks the consumer to measure, in a dim bathroom, by counting drops — and drop size varies. A softgel is the dose, pre-measured and identical every time. For anyone who wants a reliable, repeatable amount, the softgel wins on precision outright. Versus edibles: gummies and chocolates are pleasant but expose the active to heat, moisture, flavours and sugars, and Canadian edibles are capped at 10 mg THC per package. An ingested softgel extract can carry up to 10 mg per unit and 1,000 mg per package — far more dosing range — inside a sealed shell that keeps oxygen and light off the cannabinoids. The shared advantage: the sealed shell is a barrier. Cannabinoids degrade with exposure to air and light; a softgel locks the oil away from both, which is why softgels tend to hold their labelled potency longer than an oil in a part-used bottle. Precise, portable, tasteless, and protected — that combination is why softgels keep taking share in cannabis wellness. ## Why leakers are the real yield killer Ask any softgel maker what keeps them up at night and the answer is leakers. A leaker is a capsule whose seam lets fill escape — and at scale, leakers are the single biggest threat to yield, and therefore to unit cost. They come from a handful of causes: a seam sealed too thin, a fill chemically incompatible with the gelatin, or a drying window run too hot or too wet. Oil-based cannabis fills make every one of those failure modes live. This is why a controlled, well-characterised fill-and-drying process matters more than the machine itself: it's what protects your yield, and your economics, once you're running tens of thousands of units. ## What to look for in a cannabis softgel manufacturer If you're choosing a contract manufacturer for softgels in Canada, the questions that separate marketing from capability are concrete. Ask for the published minimum order quantity and turnaround time — many won't state them. Ask how they hold the ±15% potency band and the net-weight tolerance, batch to batch, on a lot-variable distillate. Ask where their distillate comes from and how they control its colour. Ask for their Health Canada audit history and whether there have been critical findings. And ask whether a real person follows up — or a form. Lupos answers all of these in the open. We publish our specs, hold both legal tolerances every batch by assaying each distillate lot and holding the centre of the band, and start from golden distillate and white isolate so colour stays consistent on the shelf — with audit context and batch documentation shared openly during scoping. ## Start this project Building a cannabis softgel program, or moving one to a manufacturer that publishes its numbers? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. See softgel contract manufacturing → ## Related services & reading Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Tolling, Distillates & Isolates · Topicals & Oils Manufacturing GPP vs GMP in Canadian cannabis · All resources # ===== Distillate colour & isolate purity ===== Cannabis Distillate Colour & Isolate Purity Explained — Why Golden Beats Amber | Lupos Resources · Extraction ## Distillate colour and isolate purity: how to read an extract with your eyes. Before any lab report comes back, an experienced buyer has already judged an extract the same way you judge honey or olive oil — by looking at it. Colour is the one quality signal that needs no instrument, and it is remarkably honest. Here is what distillate colour actually tells you, why some oil runs dark, what 99.9% isolate purity means, and the questions that separate a real extraction partner from a reseller. ## What is cannabis distillate? Distillate is a highly refined cannabis extract: crude oil that has been cleaned up and then distilled so the cannabinoids — THC, CBD, or both — are concentrated to high potency while most of everything else is removed. It is the workhorse ingredient of the legal market, the input behind most vapes, softgels, edibles and tinctures, because it is potent, consistent and easy to formulate with. (If you're newer to the supply chain, start with what cannabis tolling is — this article picks up where extraction begins.) ## How is distillate made? 1. Extraction. Solvent (commonly ethanol or CO₂) pulls cannabinoids, terpenes, waxes and pigments out of the biomass, producing a thick, dark crude oil. Everything the plant had to offer — wanted and unwanted — comes along. 2. Winterization and de-waxing. The crude is chilled so fats and waxes solidify and can be filtered out. Skip or rush this step and the waxes stay behind to cloud the oil and gum up everything downstream. 3. Decarboxylation. Heat converts the acid forms of the cannabinoids (THCA, CBDA) into their active forms (THC, CBD). 4. Distillation. Under deep vacuum, thin-film or short-path distillation separates the cannabinoids from remaining impurities by boiling point. Done well, what comes off the condenser is a clear, viscous, golden oil. 5. Colour remediation. The optional step that separates extractors. Residual pigments and oxidation colour can be stripped from the oil — but aggressive remediation costs yield, so many labs simply don't do it, and the colour stays. This is where Lupos's proprietary de-waxing and colour-removal process earns its keep: it strips waxes and dark colour without sacrificing yield. ## Why is some distillate dark? Fresh, well-made distillate is gold. When it runs amber, red or brown instead, the colour is carrying information: Plant pigments that survived. Chlorophyll and other pigments extracted from the biomass that were never fully removed. Waxes and lipids. Incomplete winterization leaves fats that haze and darken the oil. Heat and oxidation. Cannabinoids and residual compounds degrade with heat, air and time, and the degradation products are dark — an oil that ran too hot, sat too long, or was distilled on tired equipment shows it. Lot-variable biomass. Every lot of input material is different; without a remediation step that brings each batch back to the same standard, the colour drifts lot to lot. None of this necessarily makes a dark oil non-compliant — it can still pass potency testing. But colour drift tells you the process upstream isn't holding a constant standard, and the same drift will show up in your finished product. ## What colour should good distillate be? The industry sells distillate across a wide colour range — pale yellow through amber, even rose — and prices it mostly on potency. We think that misses the point. Colour is the visible record of how the oil was made, so we treat it as part of the specification: Lupos distillate is ultra-gold — clear, bright, and consistent batch to batch — because the de-waxing and colour-removal step is built into the process, not bolted on when a buyer complains. A formulator working with ultra-gold oil gets a finished product that looks the same in January as it did in June; a formulator working with drifting amber has to hide it. ## What is CBD isolate — and CBG isolate? Isolate goes one refinement further than distillate: a single cannabinoid, crystallized out and purified until virtually nothing else remains. The result is a white crystalline powder — CBD isolate and CBG isolate being the two most commercially important. Because it is one molecule, isolate is odourless in formulation, precisely doseable by weight, and the cleanest route to THC-free product claims — there is no THC in it to manage. ## What does 99.9% purity actually mean? Purity is measured by lab assay and stated on the certificate of analysis: a 99.9% isolate is 99.9% the named cannabinoid by mass. The number worth understanding is the last fraction of a percent. Getting from crude to 99% is process; getting from 99% to 99.9% is discipline — repeated purification that removes the final residues of everything else. And you can see the difference: at 99.9%, isolate is a true white. Off-white, cream or grey powder is telling you the impurities are still in there — colour is the purity test you can run with your eyes, and the COA should simply confirm what you saw. Lupos CBD and CBG isolate is produced at 99.9% purity, white, with a COA on every lot. ## Does extract colour matter in the finished product? More than most buyers expect. A softgel shell is translucent — the capsule shows whatever is inside it, so drifting distillate colour becomes drifting shelf colour. A vape cartridge displays the oil through glass at retail. A tincture shows its colour in the dropper every morning. In every format, the consumer reads dark or inconsistent colour as a quality problem — whether or not the COA agrees. Consistent inputs are the only fix: start gold, stay gold. ## Distillate or isolate: which input should you buy? Choose distillate when you want potent, formulation-ready oil at the best cost per milligram — vapes, softgels, edibles, tinctures. Choose isolate when you need THC-free claims, precise single-cannabinoid dosing, or a neutral input that adds no taste or colour of its own. Many programs use both: distillate for the flagship line, isolate for the THC-free and CBG products beside it. ## Buying bulk extract in Canada: what to check Ask for the COA on the actual lot you're buying, not a representative one. Confirm the seller holds a processing licence under the Cannabis Act and check their Health Canada audit history. Ask how colour is controlled — specifically whether remediation is a standard step or an upcharge — and what the colour spec is, batch to batch. If you export, ask whose regulators their documentation has already cleared. And ask the minimum: many extractors only sell by the multi-kilogram lot. Lupos sells bulk crude, ultra-gold distillate and 99.9% CBD/CBG isolate at any quantity — no minimum order — with a COA on every lot and export documentation proven as far as Australia. ## What to ask an extraction partner Whether you're tolling your own biomass or buying finished extract, the same questions apply. What's the colour spec, and how is it held? How is de-waxing handled, and what does remediation cost in yield? Who runs the analytical bench? (At Lupos: a team led by a PhD analytical chemist, 6 PhDs on staff.) What's the audit history, and will they share it during scoping? And does the lab run its own products through the same line? (We do — PROOFLY, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand, is made on the same standard.) ## Start this project Buying bulk distillate or isolate, or weighing a tolling program? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. See tolling, distillates & isolates → ## Related services & reading Tolling, Distillates & Isolates · Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Packaging & Distribution What is cannabis tolling? · How softgels are made · All resources # ===== How cannabis topicals are made ===== How Cannabis Topicals & Tinctures Are Made — Emulsions, Stability, Potency | Lupos Resources · Topicals & Oils ## How cannabis topicals and oils are made — and why the jar is the hard part. A cream looks like the gentlest product in cannabis. It is also the most chemically temperamental: oil and water forced to live together, an active ingredient that only dissolves in one of them, a legal potency band that doesn't care how viscous the product is, and a label that isn't allowed to promise anything. Here is how topicals and tinctures are actually made, why so many fail in the jar, and what separates a topical people buy once from one they rebuy. ## What counts as a cannabis topical? In Canada, a cannabis topical is a product intended for use on skin, hair or nails: creams, balms, salves, roll-ons, bath bombs. One product people lump in doesn't belong — tincture oils are usually not topicals. A tincture you swallow is a cannabis extract under the regulations, with its own limits and rules. The distinction matters because the two classes are regulated, dosed and manufactured differently, even when they sit side by side in the same brand line. ## How is a cream made? A cream is an emulsion — oil and water, which naturally refuse to mix, persuaded into a stable union. The oil phase (butters, carrier oils, waxes) and the water phase are heated separately, combined under high-shear mixing with an emulsifier that holds the two together, then cooled on a controlled curve while actives and preservatives are added at the temperatures they can tolerate. The cooling curve isn't a detail: cool too fast or shear too little and the texture breaks — grainy, greasy, or split. Balms and salves are simpler creatures: anhydrous (no water), just oils and waxes melted, blended and set. No water means no emulsion to break and less preservative burden — which is why a balm is the forgiving format and a cream is the demanding one. ## Why do creams separate, and how is it prevented? Every emulsion wants to fail; the formulator's job is postponing that forever. The classic failure modes are universal cosmetics problems: separation (the oil and water divorce, leaving liquid on top), temperature cycling (a product that survives the lab but breaks in a delivery truck in January), preservative failure (anything containing water can grow microbes), and ingredient drift (natural butters and oils vary crop to crop, shifting texture and colour). The defences are unglamorous and decisive: a robust emulsification system, stability testing across temperature swings, a preservative system proven for the formula, and incoming-ingredient specs tight enough to catch drift before it reaches the kettle. ## What changes when you add cannabinoids? Cannabinoids are oils — lipophilic molecules that dissolve in the oil phase and want nothing to do with water. That single fact drives the whole formulation. The active rides in one phase of a two-phase system, so keeping potency uniform through a thick emulsion — first scoop of the jar equal to the last, top of the batch equal to the bottom — becomes the central manufacturing problem. And the legal bands don't bend for viscosity: under section 97 of the Cannabis Regulations, a topical must hold 85–115% of its labelled THC/CBD (±15%), inside a cap of 1,000 mg of THC per container. Hitting a potency band inside a cream is genuinely harder than hitting it in a clear oil — the assay sample has to represent a product that resists mixing. We dial it in through formulation R&D and confirm it — along with texture, scent and colour — on the pilot batch you approve before we scale. (Dosing precision differs by format; see how softgels compare.) ## Why can't cannabis topicals make claims? Health-benefit claims are prohibited on cannabis topical labels in Canada, and promotion rules are tight everywhere else. A cannabis cream cannot legally say it relieves, treats or soothes anything. That sounds like a marketing problem; it's actually a quality filter. A product that can't promise has to perform — texture, scent, absorption and effect good enough that the customer rebuys without being told to. In this category, repurchase is the only honest metric. It rewards manufacturers who obsess over the formula and starves the ones who planned to win on the label. ## How are tinctures made — and dosed? Tinctures are the chemically simple sibling: cannabinoids dissolved in a carrier oil, blended to a precise concentration, filled and capped. No emulsion, no water, no preservative system. The challenge moves from the kettle to the consumer: a tincture is dosed by dropper, and dropper dosing is only as precise as the person holding it. For brands, the format choice is a trade: tinctures offer flexible dosing and fast formulation; softgels offer fixed, repeatable doses. Many lines carry both and let the customer choose. ## THC-free or full-spectrum: what's the difference in practice? A full-spectrum topical carries the plant's broader cannabinoid profile; a THC-free product is built on isolate — a single purified cannabinoid. The choice shapes everything downstream: input cost, scent profile, the claims your retail partners can navigate, and which consumers the product can serve. A manufacturer should be fluent in both — Lupos formulates THC-free and full-spectrum versions of the same product routinely. ## What does "ready-to-launch formula" mean? There are two roads to a finished topical. Custom formulation builds your product from the ground up — longest road, most differentiated result. Ready-to-launch formulas are proven in-house recipes — already stable, already compliant, already manufactured at scale — that take your brand, your scent direction and your potency target. It's the difference between commissioning architecture and moving into a finished house. There's also a third road: re-engineering, where our formulation team takes your existing product and rebuilds it for Canadian compliance or better margins without losing what made it work. ## What should you ask a topical manufacturer? Ask whether they sell a topical of their own — nothing proves a line like competing on the same shelves you're asking them to put you on. Ask how potency uniformity is verified through the batch, top to bottom. Ask for stability data on the base formula, including temperature cycling. Ask who runs the analytical work. And ask for the MOQ and turnaround in writing — published numbers are a tell for how the rest of the relationship will run. Lupos answers in the open: topicals from 200 kg (2,000 × 100 g), tinctures from 90 kg (3,000 × 30 g), 6–8 week turnaround with a 2-week rush, a pilot batch (texture, scent, colour, feel) included, on the same Markham line that makes PROOFLY — referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand, 40+ SKUs across 9 categories, winner of KIND's Best Pain Relief Topical award, exported to Australia. We compete in this category with our own money; your product is made to the standard that requires. ## Start this project Building a topical or tincture line, or moving one to a manufacturer that sells its own? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. See topicals & oils manufacturing → ## Related services & reading Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Packaging & Distribution How to launch a cannabis topical in Canada · Distillate colour & isolate purity · All resources # ===== Cannabis packaging & distribution in Canada ===== Cannabis Packaging Rules in Canada & How Provincial Distribution Works | Lupos Resources · Packaging & Distribution ## Cannabis packaging and distribution in Canada: the rules, the stamps, and the shelf. In most industries, packaging is where the brand gets loud and distribution is a phone call. In Canadian cannabis, packaging is regulated down to the finish on the bottle, and distribution runs through a different government buyer in every province. Here is why the packages look the way they do, what the excise stamp actually is, and how a product really gets from a manufacturing line to a legal shelf. ## Why does cannabis packaging look so plain? Because the law designed it that way. Canada's plain-packaging rules require a single uniform colour with no gloss, metallic, fluorescent or embossed finishes, strict limits on logos and brand elements, and nothing that could appeal to youth. The container can't even clash with its mandatory marks: the colour must contrast with the yellow health warning and the red cannabis symbol. For brands arriving from cosmetics or wellness, this is the first shock — almost every tool of shelf design is off the table. What's left to compete on is the product itself, the brand name, and the channel strategy. ## The two marks on every package Two symbols do the talking on a Canadian cannabis package. The standardized cannabis symbol — the red octagon with the leaf — must appear on any product containing THC, at a minimum size of 1.27 cm × 1.27 cm on the principal display panel. Beside it sits the yellow health warning message, drawn from Health Canada's rotating list. Both have prescribed sizes, placements and clear space; neither can be shrunk, restyled or hidden. Layout in this category starts from the marks and works outward. ## Why is the container child-resistant? Nearly every cannabis product class must ship in a child-resistant container meeting the same standard used for medicines under the Food and Drug Regulations. For a co-packer this is a components problem as much as a compliance one: caps, closures and liners have to be certified, sourced reliably, and run correctly at line speed — a child-resistant cap applied with the wrong torque isn't child-resistant. ## What is the cannabis excise stamp? The small banded sticker sealing every THC product is a federal excise stamp — proof the duty was paid, administered by the CRA. Three things about it surprise newcomers. First, it's jurisdiction-specific: each province and territory has its own colour-coded stamp, so a product bound for Ontario carries a different stamp than the identical product bound for Alberta. Second, each stamp carries a unique alphanumeric identifier and security features like a banknote. Third, only a processing licence holder may apply it. Sell nationally and you're managing a matrix of stamp inventories — ordered in advance, stored securely, reconciled, and applied accurately at line speed. Stamp logistics are a real operational discipline, and getting them wrong stops shipments. ## The label is a legal document A cannabis label is closer to a regulatory filing than an ad: bilingual text, THC and CBD declarations in the prescribed format, lot code, packaged-on date, licence-holder name and contact, warnings, symbol, net quantity — each with rules about size and placement. The consequence of an error isn't a reprint; it's relabelling or recalling finished, stamped, duty-paid product. A competent co-packer treats label review like a batch record — verified against the regulations before the first bottle is filled, not after the first complaint. ## What does a co-packing line actually do? The unglamorous physics of packaging: filling accurately (a net-weight tolerance applies to the package, too), capping with correct torque, labelling straight and in register, applying the right province's stamp, and changing over between products without cross-contamination or mixed components. Automation is what makes this economical — Lupos runs an automated line for round bottles and caps handling softgels, capsules, oils, creams, balms and salves from runs of 2,500 bottles — but automation only pays when the line is run by people who catch the wrong-stamp, wrong-label, wrong-lid failures before they happen at speed. ## How does cannabis distribution work in Canada? There is no national cannabis retailer. Recreational cannabis is bought by each province's board or commission — the OCS in Ontario, AGLC in Alberta, BCLDB in British Columbia, and their counterparts across the country — each with its own product calls, listing requirements, data expectations and review timelines. The medical channel runs separately again, through licensed medical sellers. Selling nationally doesn't mean winning one listing; it means winning the same fight ten times, with ten different scorecards. ## Why listing is the real bottleneck Brands routinely discover that making the product was the easy half. Provincial boards buy from licence holders, on their own calendars, against their own category strategies — and a finished, compliant, beautifully made product with no listing sits in a warehouse. This is the gap most contract manufacturers can't close: they stop at the loading dock. The questions that matter when you pick a packaging partner are about what happens after the dock: who carries the listing, in which provinces, and on whose track record? ## What about the medical channel? Running parallel to the provincial boards is a channel most brands overlook: medical. Canada has about 160,000 patients registered with federally licensed medical sellers (Health Canada, March 2025) — a number that stabilized in 2025 after years of decline, with Ontario accounting for roughly half. The channel works nothing like retail. There are no storefronts; patients order from licensed sellers and product ships to their door. That means there is no walk-by discovery and no budtender recommendation — a brand is either listed on a seller's platform or it is invisible to every patient on it. The structure is also what makes it valuable. Medical patients buy on a schedule, stay with products that work for them, and read documentation more carefully than any recreational shopper — a loyal, repeat-purchase audience that most recreational brands never touch. The challenge is the door: each medical seller curates its own menu, so winning the channel means winning placement seller by seller, relationship by relationship. This is precisely where manufacturing-only partners stop and where Lupos keeps going — PROOFLY sells through 15+ medical partners, and those same relationships can carry a client's brand. ## The bigger opportunity: the world is buying Canadian The fastest-growing cannabis market Canada serves isn't in Canada. Canadian medical cannabis exports passed 275 tonnes in 2025 — a 143% jump, more than double the year before. Germany, after its 2024 reforms, became the largest medical cannabis import market in the world, and Canada is its top supplier. Australian imports of Canadian product roughly tripled between 2024 and 2026. For a Canadian brand or LP, export is the genuine growth story of this decade. It is also the most demanding channel in the industry: import and export permits, destination-regulator documentation, pharmaceutical-grade (GDP) logistics, and months from production to foreign shelf. Rising volumes are compressing prices too, which rewards exactly one thing — differentiated, documented quality over commodity bulk. Lupos already exports to Australia, with documentation that has cleared a foreign regulator, and our euGMP certification is in progress — the credential European medical markets require. ## Distribution as a growth lever This is where Lupos is built differently. We sell our own brand — PROOFLY, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand — through 10 provincial boards and 15+ medical partners, and we can list your brand through the same channels. Packaging with us isn't only a cost decision; it's a route to shelves you don't currently have, in provinces you haven't entered, through relationships that already exist. Most co-packers cut your landed cost. Ours can also grow your revenue. This service is for existing brands with a manufactured product — if that's you, the shelf is closer than you think. ## Start this project Need compliant packaging, provincial listings, or both? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. See packaging & distribution → ## Related services & reading Packaging & Distribution · Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Topicals & Oils Manufacturing How to launch a cannabis topical in Canada · How softgels are made · All resources # ===== GPP vs GMP ===== GPP vs GMP in Canadian Cannabis Manufacturing — What Buyers Actually Need | Lupos Resources · Compliance ## GPP vs GMP: what Canadian cannabis buyers actually need. If you're choosing a contract manufacturer in Canada, you'll see GPP, GMP and EU-GMP used — sometimes loosely. Here's what each standard means, which one your product actually requires, and the questions that separate marketing from compliance. ## What GPP is Good Production Practices (GPP) are the mandatory baseline under Canada's Cannabis Regulations for every licensed processor. GPP covers sanitation programs, quality assurance oversight, standard operating procedures, product testing and record-keeping. If a facility processes cannabis legally in Canada, it operates under GPP — and Health Canada audits against it. ## What GMP is Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) is the stricter pharmaceutical standard used for drug products. In Canada it is associated with the Food and Drugs Act and a Drug Establishment Licence; in Europe, EU-GMP is the standard pharmaceutical regulators expect. GMP certification involves additional infrastructure, validation and documentation beyond GPP. ## Which one do you need? For cannabis products sold through Canadian provincial boards and most Canadian medical channels, GPP is the required standard — GMP is not required. GMP or EU-GMP matters when your product is a pharmaceutical, or when you export to markets whose regulators demand it (several European medical-cannabis markets do). Matching the certification to your actual sales channel avoids paying pharmaceutical overhead for a provincial-board product. ## What “euGMP-ready” means Some facilities — including Lupos — are built to EU-GMP infrastructure standards ahead of certification, with certification in progress. “Ready” is not “certified”: certification only exists after a successful audit by a European authority. Any manufacturer should tell you plainly which they are. Lupos is GPP-licensed with euGMP-ready cleanrooms and certification in progress — we say exactly that. ## Questions to ask any manufacturer Ask for the licence type and what standard the facility is audited against; the Health Canada audit history and whether there have been critical findings; how batch records and COAs are prepared for your own audits; and — if export is in your plan — which markets their documentation has actually cleared. Lupos shares its Health Canada audit history openly during scoping — and exports to Australia. ## Talk to the team Questions about your own program? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. ## Related services Softgel Contract Manufacturing · Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · All resources # ===== What is cannabis tolling ===== What Is Cannabis Tolling? Contract Extraction Explained | Lupos Biotechnology Resources · Extraction ## What is cannabis tolling? Tolling — sometimes called contract extraction — is the arrangement where you ship your cannabis or hemp biomass to a licensed processor, they extract it for a fee, and you get back distillates or isolates that were yours the whole time. ## How tolling works You supply the biomass; the processor runs extraction, distillation and — if specified — isolation, then returns the finished extract with certificates of analysis. Unlike selling your biomass and buying back extract, ownership never changes hands: the material is yours from the truck in to the truck out, with documentation at every step. ## Why producers toll Extraction suites are capital-intensive to build and license. Tolling gives cultivators and Licensed Producers extraction capacity without the capex — and turns surplus or unsold biomass into a saleable, shelf-stable input. For many producers it's the difference between biomass aging in storage and distillate generating revenue. ## What to look for in a tolling partner A processing licence under the Cannabis Act, audit history you can verify, clear chain-of-custody documentation, and a straight answer on yield: ask how the lab handles de-waxing and colour remediation, because aggressive cleanup often costs yield. Lupos uses a proprietary de-waxing and colour-removal process that strips impurities without sacrificing yield. ## Tolling at Lupos Lupos runs tolling from a 500 kg biomass minimum at its Toronto extraction facility, with distillation and CBD/CBG isolation in-house, under GPP with audit-ready documentation at every step. Bulk crude, distillate and isolate are also available to purchase directly. ## Talk to the team Questions about your own program? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. ## Related services Tolling, Distillates & Isolates · Packaging & Distribution · Distillate colour & isolate purity explained · All resources # ===== Launch a cannabis topical ===== How to Launch a Cannabis Topical in Canada — A Brand Owner's Guide | Lupos Resources · Launch Guide ## How to launch a cannabis topical in Canada. A practical guide for brand owners — what the path from idea to provincial shelf actually looks like, written by the team behind PROOFLY, referenced as Canada's #1 cannabis wellness brand. ## 1. Choose your format Creams, balms, salves, roll-ons and bath bombs each carry different cost structures, fill formats and shelf expectations. Look at what's selling in the category you want to enter, and decide whether you're THC-free or full-spectrum — it shapes everything downstream. ## 2. The licensing reality You do not need your own processing licence to launch a topical in Canada. Manufacturing happens under a licensed processor's licence — Lupos is GPP-licensed under the Cannabis Act — through a white-label or private-label program. Your brand, made compliantly under our licence. ## 3. Formulation and pilot batch Two paths: start from a ready-to-launch in-house formula (fastest to shelf), or have an existing formula re-engineered for Canadian compliance and manufacturability. Either way, insist on a pilot batch you approve before full production — it's how surprises get caught at kilogram scale instead of at 200 kg. ## 4. Real numbers At Lupos, topical programs start at 200 kg (2,000 bottles × 100 g) and tinctures at 90 kg (3,000 × 30 g), with 6–8 weeks standard turnaround and a 2-week rush option, on transparent cost-plus pricing. Whoever you work with, get MOQs and turnaround in writing before you commit. ## 5. Packaging and labelling Cannabis topicals require compliant, child-resistant packaging and Cannabis Act labelling. An automated co-packing line (Lupos runs from 2,500 bottles) keeps unit costs predictable and the labels compliant. ## 6. Getting on shelves Products reach consumers through provincial boards (such as OCS, AGLC and BCLDB) and medical channels. This is where a manufacturer with its own distribution matters: Lupos sells PROOFLY through 10 provincial boards and 15+ medical partners and can list client brands through the same channels — so the launch plan can include the shelf, not just the warehouse. ## Talk to the team Questions about your own program? A real person follows up, not a bot. Email info@lupos.ca or start a project at lupos.ca. ## Related services Topicals & Oils Manufacturing · Packaging & Distribution · All resources ## Version française (/fr/) L'équipe scientifique derrière PROOFLY — reconnue comme la marque de bien-être au cannabis n° 1 au Canada. Lupos (Canada) Biotechnology Inc. est un fabricant à façon de cannabis et de chanvre autorisé par Santé Canada (bonnes pratiques de production, GPP) dans la région du Grand Toronto, en activité depuis 2017, avec ~50 employés dont 6 titulaires de doctorat. Services : capsules molles; crèmes, baumes, onguents, bombes de bain et huiles en teinture; extraction, distillation et isolation (distillats et isolats); emballage et distribution par 10 régies provinciales du cannabis et 15+ partenaires médicaux. Salles blanches prêtes pour l'euGMP (certification en cours) — ne jamais affirmer « certifié GMP/euGMP ». Positionnement : « Assez grands pour livrer. 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