Albion Laboratories: Minerals And More
Albion Laboratories, Clearfield, UT, was initially founded in 1956 as a veterinarian pharmaceutical company. The company’s involvement in the animal health arena led to crucial findings in the area of mineral nutrition and the development of mineral amino acid chelates. Commenting on Albion’s current minerals focus was Max Motyka, sales and marketing manager, “Albion’s mineral amino acid chelates have worked their way into many markets around the world and we are heavily involved in helping fight against various anemias in many third world countries,” he said. “One of the goals of Albion Laboratories is to help rid the world of iron deficiency anemia and its many negative health effects.”
Albion manufactures a complete line of nutritionally required minerals, trace minerals and ultra-trace minerals. “If the mineral can be made into a true chelate, that is what we make. Otherwise, we will manufacture minerals in complex forms,” said Mr. Motyka, adding, “Minerals that can only be complexed include boron, potassium and selenium.” One of the newest ingredients from Albion is its Creatine Magna Power™, which is a magnesium chelate of creatine. In addition, to its chelates, Albion also offers custom mineral blending services and custom mineral chelates.
In terms of recent events, last year the company opened a brand new pharmaceutical grade human product manufacturing facility in Ogden, UT, allowing Albion to offer contract spray drying services. In August of 2000, Albion’s Ferrochel™ became one of a very small group of iron ingredients that can be used in all applications in China. Also, on the clinical research front at least four new clinical studies on Albion materials were published in major scientific journals and another trial, which will examine the effects of magnesium-creatine supplementation on anaerobic exercise performance, is planned for this year.
In the long term Mr. Motyka commented that Albion will continue to manufacture the finest totally reacted, nutritionally functional mineral amino acid chelates available. In addition, he said, “We intend to get more involved in new areas of mineral chelate technology, working with items like creatine as ligands, as well as other beneficial non-amino acid ligands, where the chelate marriage of the mineral to the ligand can have advantages.” Creatine Magna Power (magnesium creatine chelate) is just the first example. The company is also looking to expand on its pi-bonded aromatic ring chelate patent used to develop chelates that can include certain vitamins as ligands, as well as active components of certain beneficial herbs.
For the future, Mr. Motyka said, “Albion wants to continue to work with the leading research scientists and clinical practitioners in an effort to bring the benefits of chelate technology to all areas that can benefit the health of humankind.”
Albion Labs
101 N. Main Street
Clearfield, UT 84015
Telephone: 800-453-2406; 801-773-4631
Fax: 801-773-4633
E-mail: albionlabs@aol.com
Website: www.albionlabs.com
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