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NORDIC LIFE SYSTEMS A Problife company Contract development & manufacturing · EU

From raw material
to market‑ready.

European contract manufacturing for nutritional brands. Verified ingredient sourcing, certified production in Bulgaria and Germany, and more than 16 years of microbiome expertise behind every product.

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The same sites, the same quality system, the same team, whether the label is ours or yours.
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Who we are

The partner behind the product.

Nordic Life Systems is the contract development and manufacturing arm of the Problife group. We combine what most suppliers keep separate: professional raw-material sourcing and state-of-the-art production.

Your product is built on verified ingredients and manufactured to European standards, with one company accountable for both.

Headquarters
Tallinn, Estonia
Production
Bulgaria · Germany
Offices
Europe · GCC · China · Korea
Group
Problife

Through the Problife group we serve brand owners, distributors and solution providers worldwide.

Archival culture plate held to the light
OUR HERITAGE · STARTER CULTURES
16+
Years in biotics
2,000+
Strains accessible
3
Production countries · BG · CN · IT
4
Regions with offices
Our heritage

16 years of making microbes work.

Long before private-label supplements, we were supplying probiotic starter cultures to major partners in the dairy industry. That is the hardest school in the business: live cultures, industrial volumes, zero tolerance for failure. It taught us discipline that generic blenders never learn.

From that foundation the group moved into consumer supplements, then into functional foods that carry biotics into everyday life, and today into postbiotics.

  1. The foundation

    Starter cultures for dairy

    Live cultures at industrial scale for major dairy producers, delivered on specification.

  2. First consumer products

    Probiotic supplements

    The group's own probiotic products, made in Bulgaria and sold across Europe.

  3. Beyond the capsule

    Functional foods

    Snack bars, drinks and dairy applications that carry biotics into everyday life.

  4. Four regions

    Global offices

    Europe, the GCC, China and Korea: sourcing, partners and customers on the ground.

  5. Today

    Full-service CDMO and postbiotics

    Sourcing and manufacturing under one partner, and MaestroBiome 01, our postbiotic made in Italy.

Market momentum

You are entering a market that keeps growing.

Global probiotics & postbiotics market, USD billion

050100150 50 ~190 20202022202420262028E2030E
Source: industry estimates, 2025. E = projected.
~13%
Annual market growth

Biotics, sports nutrition and functional foods are among the fastest-growing categories in consumer health. The brands that win are the ones that reach the shelf fast, with quality that holds. That is exactly what a specialised partner is for.

How we work
01Source.
02Verify.
03Deliver.

Origin first.

We buy raw materials the way a trading house does: direct relationships with qualified European producers, competitive terms, and full visibility of origin for every lot.

Nothing enters unverified.

Every ingredient and every counterparty passes our gates for origin, specification, counterparty, lot documentation and delivery terms before anything enters production.

One owner, end to end.

Formulation, production, quality release and shipment run under one project owner. You receive a finished, documented, EU-compliant product instead of a chain of handoffs.

How we work

Source. Verify. Deliver.

Source

Direct relationships with qualified European producers, competitive terms, and full visibility of origin for every lot.

Verify

Every ingredient and counterparty passes our gates for origin, specification, counterparty, lot documentation and delivery terms.

Deliver

Formulation, production, quality release and shipment run under one project owner.

Every lot passes
five gates
1Origin
2Specification
3Counterparty
4Lot documentation
5Delivery
Bulk protein raw-material samples: whey isolate and milk protein concentrate, cow and goat
Sourcing

Ingredients you can put your name on.

Great products start before the factory. Our sourcing desk qualifies and buys dairy proteins, pro- and postbiotic cultures, vitamins and botanical actives directly from European producers, with the same discipline we apply when trading these materials in bulk.

Your formulation is costed on real market prices, documented to lot level, and never dependent on a single anonymous middleman.

  • Whey & dairy proteins
  • Probiotic cultures
  • Postbiotics
  • Vitamins & minerals
  • Prebiotic fibres
  • Botanical actives
Technician in a cleanroom production hall checking stainless-steel processing tanks
Manufacturing

Two certified sites. One standard.

Bulgaria

High-capacity production for capsules, tablets, powder blends and sachets. This is where the Problife group's own probiotic products are made: formulation, blending, encapsulation, packaging and release under one roof.

Germany

Precision manufacturing for demanding formats and premium private-label programs, with German documentation standards and direct access to the DACH market.

GMPHACCPSite-level certifications, available for your audit file.
FERMENTATION & PRODUCTION, EU
On the line

Precision you can watch.

Automated filling, controlled dosing and inline inspection. This is what your production run looks like.

Stick-pack line dosing powder into sachets
01

Stick pack lines

Multi-lane forming, dosing and sealing for single-serve sticks and sachets.

Capsule filling machine bowl
02

Capsule filling

High-speed encapsulation with weight control on every batch.

Capsules on the inspection conveyor
03

Inline inspection

Continuous visual and weight checks before anything reaches packaging.

Finished capsules held in gloved hands
04

Batch release

Every lot leaves with its Certificate of Analysis against the agreed specification.

Probiotics

Live cultures, built to specification.

Biotics are where we come from. Together with Problife we design probiotic solutions and realise them: strain selection, blend development, production and documentation, from a characterised collection of more than 2,000 strains.

  • Strain selection matched to your positioning
  • Ready-to-use premixes and custom blends
  • Tyndallised (heat-killed) specifications on request
  • Technical data sheet per strain
  • Genetically identified species
  • Bulk freeze-dried powder or finished formats
BG

Bulgaria

The group's own probiotic products: formulation, blending, encapsulation, packaging and release under one roof. GMP and HACCP certified site.

CN

China

Fermentation and freeze-dried bulk cultures from a characterised strain collection, supplied against a technical data sheet per strain.

IT

Italy

Postbiotics: MaestroBiome 01 is produced under European GMP by our manufacturing partner Science Power S.r.l. in a patented sequential fermentation cascade.

Strain index

Documented strains with declared potency, available as bulk freeze-dried powder. Further strains from the 2,000+ collection on request.
41STRAINS LISTED · CFU/G

Lactobacillus

L. acidophilusLA-G80200 bn
L. plantarumLp-G18500 bn
L. plantarumLp506patented300 bn
L. reuteriLR-G100200 bn
L. rhamnosusLr-G14500 bn
L. caseiLC-G11500 bn
L. caseiLC-G16patented300 bn
L. paracaseiLPc-G110400 bn
L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricusLB-G40100 bn
L. delbrueckii subsp. lactisLL-G41100 bn
L. salivariusLS-G60100 bn
L. helveticusLH-G51200 bn
L. fermentumLF-G89200 bn
L. gasseriLG-G12200 bn
L. johnsoniiLJ-G55100 bn
L. crispatusLC-G22100 bn
L. buchneriLB-G302200 bn
L. brevisBB-G17100 bn
L. sakeiLS-G23200 bn

Bifidobacterium

B. bifidumBB-G90200 bn
B. animalis subsp. lactisBL-G101500 bn
B. animalisBL-G75300 bn
B. longum subsp. longumBL-G301100 bn
B. longum subsp. infantisBI-G201100 bn
B. breveBB-G95300 bn
B. adolescentisBQ-G66100 bn

Bacillus

B. coagulansBC-G44100 bn
B. subtilisBS-GA28800 bn
B. licheniformisBL-GA26500 bn
B. megateriumBM-GA53100 bn

Cocci & other genera

Streptococcus thermophilusST-G30400 bn
Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactisLLL-G25200 bn
Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremorisLLC-G42200 bn
Enterococcus faecalisEP-GA65200 bn
Enterococcus faeciumSF-GA12200 bn
Pediococcus acidilacticiPA-G73200 bn
Pediococcus pentosaceusPP-G15200 bn
Leuconostoc mesenteroidesLM-G27200 bn
Propionibacterium freudenreichii subsp. shermaniiPF-G68100 bn

Yeast & butyrate producer

Saccharomyces boulardiiSD-G1920 bn
Clostridium butyricumCB-G575 bn
POTENCY = DECLARED CFU/G OF BULK POWDER · STRAIN CODES ARE OUR COLLECTION REFERENCES · PATENTED STRAINS: Lp506 (CN2018), LC-G16 (CN1566) · TECHNICAL DATA SHEETS, BLENDS AND TYNDALLISED SPECIFICATIONS ON REQUEST · FOR PROFESSIONAL USE, NOT CONSUMER INFORMATION
Postbiotic · our flagship
MaestroBiome 01PBMB01 · Made in Italy · European GMP

The postbiotic built in a cascade.

Most postbiotics are made one of two ways: a single strain is fermented and inactivated, or several finished powders are blended after the fact. In both cases the strains never meet. The result is additive.

MaestroBiome 01 is different by architecture. Two Lacticaseibacillus strains, L. paracasei NPB-01 and L. rhamnosus GG, are grown in a patented sequential fermentation cascade: the matrix transformed by the first strain becomes the substrate for the second. The metabolite profile that produces cannot be made by parallel fermentation and mixing. To our knowledge it is the only commercial postbiotic made this way.

The biomass is then inactivated and spray-dried into a water-dispersible powder that behaves like an ingredient: dosed in milligrams against a fixed specification, not in CFU against a decay curve.

SEQUENTIAL CASCADE · MAESTROBIOME 01 Food-grade substrate Stage 1 · L. paracasei NPB-01 Transformed matrix = new substrate Stage 2 · L. rhamnosus GG Inactivation · spray-drying · MaestroBiome 01 CONVENTIONAL POSTBIOTIC Strain A fermented Strain B fermented separately Inactivated, then blended Additive result NO METABOLIC INTERACTION BETWEEN STRAINS
100mg
Standard daily dose (50–150 mg). 10,000 doses per kilogram.
36mo
Shelf life. No cold chain, no overage, no coating, no end-of-life CFU testing.
≥100g/L
Water-dispersible. Survives pasteurisation and hot-fill; decomposition above 240 °C.
EUGMP
Made in Italy. Vegan, non-GMO, no Annex II allergens. Self-affirmed GRAS (US) up to 1,000 mg/day.

Preclinical data

Differentiated Caco-2 intestinal cells · Science Power 2026 · p < 0.0001
Untreated control
1.0×
Either single-strain postbiotic alone
lower
MaestroBiome 01 · HBD-2 induction
16.8×
MaestroBiome 01 · ZO-1 tight-junction protein
4.8×

What matters is the comparison design, not the number: the cascade outperformed both of its own single-strain postbiotics on HBD-2 induction. Oxidative stress under H2O2 challenge was almost fully normalised. A human study is under way; status on request.

Why formulators choose it

Behaves like an ingredient
  • No cold chain. Ships and stores at ambient; warehousing stops being a constraint.
  • No decay curve. Nothing alive to lose, so no over-dosing at the start to be legal at the end.
  • Process-tolerant. Baked, extruded, retorted, tabletted, gummy, RTD and hot-fill formats open up.
  • Cleaner declaration. A defined quantity of a defined material, not a viability claim to defend at end of shelf life.
  • Available as a bulk ingredient on standard trade terms, with TDS, batch CoA and formulation guidance.

No health claim is made on this page. Efficacy documentation and the scientific dossier are shared with qualified partners under confidentiality.

Request the technical pack → See our probiotic strains Capsules · gummies · sticks · beverages · bars · bakery
What we make

Every format your brand needs.

Capsules

Hard capsules, including delayed release

Sticks & sachets

Single-serve powders, precise dosing

Protein & powder blends

Whey, clear whey and specialty blends

Tablets & chewables

Compressed tablets, chewables and melts

Gummies

Pectin-based programs for vitamins and actives

Functional foods

Snack bars and drinks with active ingredients
Six finished formats: capsules, a stick pack, powder, tablets, gummies, and a bar with a drink
Divisions

One partner, every category.

If your consumer has a need, we have a formulation path for it.

Athlete drinking a protein shake in a gymSports Nutrition
Beauty and skin consumerBeauty
Preparing a balanced bowl at homeGut Health
Taking a capsule with a glass of waterImmunity
Eating a nut bar on a walkMetabolic Health
Two runners on a forest trailFunctional Foods
And moreWomen's health · Sleep & stress · Kids' lines
Our edge

Deep biotics competence.

Most contract manufacturers treat probiotics as just another powder. We come from the microbiome world, and that expertise is built into every formulation we run.

Strain selection that fits the claim

Documented strains matched to your positioning: digestion, immunity, women's health, metabolic.

Stability built in, not hoped for

Overages, moisture control and packaging chosen so the label claim survives shelf life.

Postbiotic know-how

Heat-treated biotics for products that need stability without a cold chain. We work in this category daily.

Quality & compliance

Documented, traceable, audit‑ready.

Batch Certificate of Analysis

Every production lot ships with a CoA against the agreed specification.

Full lot traceability

One documentation chain from raw-material supplier to finished carton.

EU labelling & regulatory support

Compliant label text, permitted forms and claims guidance for European markets.

Stability & shelf-life data

Programs designed so declared values hold to end of shelf life.

Allergen & changeover control

Controlled production planning and cleaning validation between runs.

Your audit file, prepared

Site certificates, specifications and batch records compiled for your customers and authorities.

From brief to shelf

A clear path, owned end to end.

One project owner on our side, from your first brief to repeat production. Typical timelines:

1–2WEEKS

Formulation

Brief, recipe development, costing and specification, agreed in writing before anything else moves.

3–4WEEKS

Pilot & samples

Pilot batch and samples for your approval: taste, appearance, fill and analytics.

8–10WEEKS

First production

First commercial run including packaging, QC release and documentation.

6–8WEEKS

Repeat cycles

Faster repeat production with materials planned ahead against your forecast.

From powder to capsule, sachet and carton
Track record

Built for brands that deliver.

Dairy industry partners

Years of supplying probiotic starter cultures to major dairy producers. Live cultures at industrial scale, delivered on specification.

European solutions provider

Ongoing turnkey supplement programs: formulation, production and documentation delivered as a single package to a demanding B2B partner.

Gulf distribution partner

Authorized supply and representation for the UAE market: dairy-based nutrition delivered with EU-level documentation for local registration.

“The same sites, the same quality system, the same team, whether the label is ours or yours.”
Client references available under NDA
Why Nordic Life Systems

In the best hands.

One partner, whole chain

Sourcing, formulation, manufacturing and delivery: one contract, one point of accountability.

16 years of proof

From starter cultures for the dairy industry to finished consumer products across four regions.

Certified European production

GMP and HACCP certified sites in Bulgaria and Germany. EU made, EU documented.

Biotics specialists

Genuine pro- and postbiotic expertise from the Problife group, not a generic blender.

Flexible MOQs

Program sizes that let you launch, test and scale without warehouse-filling commitments.

Transparent by default

Written specifications, agreed costings and visible timelines. No surprises at delivery.

Next steps

Starting is simple.

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Let's build your next product.

Three fields and a few sentences. You will hear back from a person, not a ticket queue, within two working days.

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