TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Cosmetics
Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. ("Ginkgo") has signed a multi-program collaboration with Givaudan. Ginkgo serves customers across industries seeking to develop new and better products. Givaudan will leverage Ginkgo's long-established expertise in enabling companies to develop bio-based products to produce a number of innovative and sustainable ingredients through fermentation.
Nature-inspired Ingredients
Givaudan has chosen to leverage Ginkgo's extensive platform to accelerate development and enhance Givaudan's portfolio of ingredients. Through this collaboration, Givaudan plans to sustainably deliver products, such as those that are only available in minute quantities in nature, using the natural world as inspiration for an expanded creative palette.
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We are excited to work with Givaudan to enhance their palette of ingredients used for their product development," said Jason Kelly, CEO at Ginkgo Bioworks. "
Through this close collaboration, we will be able to help Givaudan transform even the rarest and most complex nature-inspired ingredients into more sustainable products for consumers. We believe that biology has the power to enable better and more sustainable products across many industries, from flavors and fragrances, to pharmaceuticals, to farming."
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Givaudan has long prided itself on being a leader in innovation," said Allison Haitz, Biotechnology program director at Givaudan. "
This collaboration with Ginkgo Bioworks is the latest example of our commitment to offering the highest quality, natural products to our customers around the world. We are excited to use biology to unlock more wonders of nature in a sustainable way."
The collaboration between Ginkgo and Givaudan spans multiple programs, with the possibility of adding more in the future. Companies across numerous industries use Ginkgo's platform to find more effective, environmentally friendly ways to create products including food ingredients, flavors, cosmetics, medicines, and more. By enabling the design of organisms that can produce valuable biological products, Ginkgo helps accelerate the development of innovative, bio-based solutions to the world's most pressing environmental challenges.
Source: Ginkgo Bioworks