R&D
BGG Announces New Investment at Astaxanthin Plant
BGG is expanding and enhancing its astaxanthin manufacturing facilities in China to boost production efficiency, quality, innovation and sustainability. The 100 percent glass-tube photobioreactor microalgae platform in Yunnan Province, the largest of its kind in the world, according to the company, will now incorporate the entire value chain. As a result, farming, extraction, drying, packaging ...
Excipient Evolution
The active ingredients may be the star of the show, but excipients are the workhorses behind the scenes. One would not technically think of excipients when teasing out the concept of a new or improved dietary supplement formula—but they are a critical component. They have not been static, either. Excipients have evolved to adapt to ...
Layn Natural Ingredients to Designate $148 Million to Drive Innovation, Expand Infrastructure and Ensure Secure Supply Chain
Layn Natural Ingredients (Newport Beach, CA) is securing a targeted $148 million USD from stock to be invested in infrastructure expansion and innovation to solidify its global leadership position and further its innovation, R&D and globally secure supply chain. Layn’s next generation manufacturing facility is expected to be completed in three years, with designed capacity ...
SIRIO Pharma Opens New Supersized Plant for Gummy Production in China
Sirio Pharma Co. Ltd. (SIRIO, China), the global nutraceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has announced the opening of a gummy production plant at its new development and manufacturing facility in Ma’anshan (more than 186 miles west of Shanghai, China). This announcement comes 11 years after SIRIO opened its first gummy facility, also in ...
Neptune Seeks to Develop Medical and Wellness Cannabinoid-based Products
Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. (Laval, QC, Canada) has announced an exclusive research agreement with the purpose of developing new medical and wellness targeted cannabinoid-based products, such as cannabidiol (CBD), combined with krill oil whose combination use would be exclusive to Neptune. The new products will be aimed at the growing number of federal jurisdictions ...
PLT Health Solutions Appoints VP of Medical & Scientific Affairs
PLT Health Solutions, Inc. (Morristown, NJ) has announced the appointment of Barbara A. Davis, PhD, RD to the position of vice president, medical & scientific affairs. Davis brings more than 15 years of progressive consumer products company experience as a senior scientist, principal scientist and R&D director at global food and nutrition companies, experience at ...
Sabinsa/Sami Labs Expands Biotech Foothold with Seventh Facility
New Jersey-based Sabinsa’s sister company and ingredient manufacturing arm Sami Labs Ltd., the Bangalore-based Indian multinational health science company, has acquired KCP Biotech. This acquisition will help Sami Labs gain another foothold in the growing biotech market and will aim to strengthen its product portfolio for world markets, an the new facility, spread across five ...
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