Tags: Sustainability/Natural Cosmetics
An interview with Dr. Àngel Martínez, Chief Market Officer of Industrial Química Lasem (IQL)
With the aim of high quality, flexibility, and proximity as key guidelines, Industrial Química Lasem (IQL) innovative solutions are helping people by contributing to reduce environmental impact and global energy consumption.
IQL believes in Clean beauty concept and sustainability. It works to bring a change in skin care, makeup, and hair care routine with natural derived high quality and high performance ingredients.
Dr. Àngel Martínez joined IQL in 2009 having a flourishing business development in the field of fats, oils, and specialty chemicals.
Let us hear directly from him giving his wide perspective on global markets and businesses.
#1. What is IQL positioning in the world of Cosmetics?
Founded in 1947
in Barcelona (Spain), IQL manufactures in Europe esters and specialties under Japanese standards.
IQL is part of
The
Nisshin OilliO Group headquartered in Japan.
Our operating systems are quality-driven and aimed at
achieving efficiency and fulfilling the highest expectations.
"High quality, flexibility, and proximity are our key guidelines"
IQL provides a wide range of multifunctional emollients, thickeners, and emulsifiers
based on high grade raw materials optimized for cosmetic applications.
We strive in improving day by day with our customers developing products and
cooperating in projects for satisfying the new market trends.
#2. How is IQL unique and why is this relevant?
The “The Natural Power of Plants”, The Nisshin OlliO Group slogan clearly focus IQL approach to innovation.
IQL is within Fine Chemicals Division of The Nisshin OilliO Group This Division is a strategical for the group whose
innovative character is part of its reason for being.
As differentiated value, IQL R&D teams cooperate hand in hand with customers to add value to their formulations and provide them with the opportunity to grow obtaining their niche and strategical prospects. For reaching the innovation targets IQL dedicates more than 10% of its personnel to R&D activities held in the Company own well-equipped laboratories, moreover, takes advantage also of the cooperation and synergies with The Nisshin OilliO Group research center in Japan, universities, and specialized technological centers.
#3. What are the most critical challenges customers are facing nowadays and how your innovative solutions are helping them?
IQL bases its innovative activity on its values and structural policies, which are to deliver technological solutions to improve people’s life and contribute to reduce environmental impact and global energy consumption.
Its added value products are contributing to improve environmental aspects by means of alternative products to those non-renewable ones in cosmetics applications.
"We are Responsible Chemistry"
It embraces from our partner suppliers, through our activities and developments, our respect to the environment, and ending with the final impact on the application of our products.
IQL products are intended to balance performance with sustainability. In terms of raw materials origin, the Company is aiming to create high performance and added value products for each application with the highest possible renewable content. IQL is certified with the ISO 14001, RSPO, and implementing the ISO 14064, endorsing its character of involvement and concern for the environment.
#4. What are the current and future market trends/shifts and how IQL is leading them?
IQL wants to transform the skin care, makeup, and hair care routine with natural derived high quality and high performance ingredients. Our mission is to change the way people think and help people from across all ages, races, and ethnicities to get to
the root of what it really means what we call “Clean Beauty.”
"Good for me, good for the other, good for the planet are the basics of our philosophy"
#5. Can you further detail your contribution to the cosmetic industry?
We all want to go natural however there are some significant challenges for formulating natural. Marketers want consumers to believe that natural products are safer. They also want people to believe that natural products work better. Unfortunately, this is not always the reality.
Natural derived esters, or derived from petrochemicals, are less likely to have contaminants than natural ingredients, such as oils. The shelf life of natural ingredients can also be an issue; furthermore, a natural non-synthetic formulation does not always contain the best functional ingredients. Also keep in mind that the consistency and composition of a natural ingredient can fluctuate from crop to crop, so a product that worked one way one year may not work the same way the next.
You can say that this is what naturalness implies and you are right, but consumers want products that work. They may say they want natural and environmentally friendly products, but they also want products that are effective and easy to use.
Making high performance natural derived esters can help to overcome these challenges improving the performance of natural based formulations. Getting the balance of natural and natural derived products it’s the key to keep or increase the quality and performance of the final products.
"
Naturality and performance by means of responsible chemistry is where we focus..."
Explore Industrial Quimica Lasem S.A.U. Range of Products In Our Database
About Àngel Martínez
Dr. Àngel Martínez joined Industrial Química Lasem in 2009, a company fully invested by The Nisshin OilliO Group, a leading food company in Japan with particularly excellent business development in the field of fats, oils, and specialty chemicals.
Dr. Àngel Martínez previously held various responsibility positions in different companies and sectors, this gives him a wide perspective on global markets and businesses.