TAGS: Natural/ Organic
Perfumes & Fragrances
Toine Janssen, CEO of Isobionics® has opened the Isobionics distillation plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, Netherlands. The Isobionics approach to produce natural fragrance and flavor ingredients is unique around the world.
Fermentation to Yield Natural Ingredients
The company´s proprietary technology is based on fermentation, a traditional technique well known from processes, such as brewing beer and baking bread. In this method, a substance is converted into a target product with the help of microorganisms, such as bacteria or fungi. This process is based on renewable raw materials. Distillation is the last production step, yielding natural ingredients.
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With our new distillation plant, we can expand our business even faster and serve the needs of our customers. We have many new ingredients in development, some of them will be already launched this year,” said Toine Janssen, CEO of Isobionics.
New Plant to Better Serve the Customers
Steffen Götz, head of BASF's Aroma Ingredients business, Jurgen Hoekstra, managing director
BASF Netherland, and Bert Kip, CEO of Brightlands Chemelot Campus, joined the event virtually.
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The new distillation plant is another example how we connect the innovation power and scale-up capabilities of Isobionics and BASF – for one purpose: to best serve the needs of our customers,” said Steffen Götz, head of BASF's Aroma Ingredients business.
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Thanks to the support from the Province of Limburg and the excellent facilities available at Brightlands Chemelot, we can now expand our distillation capacity. Isobionics' new fermentation-based products highlight the innovative strength of the ecosystem in the south of the Netherlands,” said Jurgen Hoekstra, managing director BASF Netherland.
Source: BASF