Where others would see citrus peel or seaweed, we see the opportunity for innovation, ingredients and solutions. By leveraging nature’s amazing functionality, our range of hydrocolloids come with a wide variety of capabilities, including rheology modification, thickening, suspension, stabilisation and gelation.
With an extensive and growing portfolio of hydrocolloids, we can improve your product’s performance in food, beverage, personal care, household care and even industrial applications.
Solution spotlight: Making the difference
Solution spotlight
With expert support and an extensive ingredient portfolio spanning fibres, sweeteners, starches, hydrocolloids and more, we can find the right solution for any goal.
Derived from citrus peels, a by-product of the juice industry, GENU® Pectin is an excellent gelling agent that thickens, brings viscosity and stabilizes a variety of food and beverage products. Easily recognisable and consumer-friendly, it is a vegan alternative to gelatin. Applications include jams, jellies, marmalades, gummies, yoghurts, fruit-flavoured drinks, smoothies and skincare products.
Extracted from red seaweed, carrageenan has been used in food and beverage applications for centuries. Sustainably sourced, GENU® Carrageenan is valued for its thickening, gelling, and stabilizing properties, as well as its clarity. It is widely used in foods, beverages, personal care and pharmaceuticals. It serves as a nature-based alternative to synthetic texturizers in personal and household care products.
Derived from carob tree seeds, our locust bean gum portfolio includes both crude and refined grades. Nature-based and calorie-free, it is an ideal thickener for food applications. It provides stabilizing, thickening, and gelling properties that enhance texture in products such as ice cream, cream cheese, and water dessert gels, as well as in personal care items like hydrogel masks.
KELCOGEL® Gellan Gum is a multifunctional suspension and stabilisation agent made by bio-fermentation using a bacteria naturally occurring on lily ponds plants. It’s best known for its ability to form a unique fluid gel that is highly efficient at suspending insolubles while enabling a smooth pour. It can also produce a wide variety of textures, and is used across many applications, from dairy alternative drinks and gummies to personal and oral care products.
KELTROL® Xanthan Gum is the go-to solution across multiple categories for its exceptional thickening and stabilizing properties while maintaining smooth flow. It’s made by bio-fermentation using a bacteria naturally occurring on plants from the cabbage family. It enables gluten-free applications in baked goods and delivers unique texture in salad dressings and more. It is also suitable for personal care, household care and industrial uses.
Diutan is a unique ingredient that thickens, suspends and stabilises across a wide pH range at low use levels. Made by bio-fermentation, it’s used in many personal and home care formulations. It can also be used in agriculture, construction and industrial applications.
Our FDC retains its functionality over a wide pH and temperature range. Compatible with salt and enzymes, its low use level makes it an optimized solution for long-term suspension and uniform distribution. It’s ideal for use in fabric care, home care and personal care applications.
From classic dairy-based products to dairy alternative innovations, short shelf life to ambient stable products, we have many years of expertise in the dairy industry. Innovation is needed more than ever in this category, as consumers are looking for healthier and more convenient products. This brings formulation challenges such as sedimentation, protein aggregation and creaming.
Our technical expertise and portfolio of nature-based ingredients are here to solve these challenges and create the perfect mouthfeel consumers love.
The beverage category is quickly evolving, with consumers looking for less sugar and more ingredients that enhance their wellbeing. They want beverages with benefits, which can create new challenges, risking an impact on flavour and texture.
We offer a wide range of nature-based ingredients that help enhance body and Mouthfeel in sugar-reduced beverages, optimize formulation cost by reducing pulp, and can suspend wellness ingredients or particles for a visual appeal.
Within the confectionery industry we see a growing focus on innovative textures and wellness; for example fortified gummies have exploded in popularity.
From gummy candies to fruit chews and aerated confectioneries, our nature-based ingredient solutions help reduce sugar and maintain a pleasing texture. Our pectin, carrageenan and gellan gum are vegan ingredient alternatives to complement your formulations and manufacturing processes.
Our hydrocolloids enable the innovation needed to develop soups, sauces and dressings products that meet needs such as improved Mouthfeel, shelf stability or specific label claims.
Our ingredient solutions coupled with years of manufacturing process and application expertise make us the preferred development partner for condiments – from spoonable and pourable, to dry mix. We offer specifically developed products that support clean label claims for full fat, low-fat, full sugar and low-sugar formulations.
From silky serums and luxurious body lotions to hair care, sun care and oral care, consumers are looking for products that feel extraordinary, and that they can trust. Clean labels, nature-based ingredients and formulations that are good for them, and good for the planet, are driving innovation.
Our hydrocolloids solutions help you meet these expectations through in both personal and household care applications. They deliver the texture, suspension and stability your formulations need. With readily biodegradable solutions meeting COSMOS®, NATRUE® and ECOCERT® standards, we help you create products that perform, from the first touch to the last drop.
Extreme pH, high temperatures and heavy salt loads demand ingredients that maintain performance reliably. From agrochemicals and firefighting foams to paints, coatings and industrial cleaners, there’s no room for compromise.
Our hydrocolloids solutions deliver the long-term suspension, thickening and emulsion stability you need, across a wide range of conditions. Readily biodegradable and meeting rigorous industry standards, they give you the confidence to deliver high-level functionality through nature-based ingredients.
We’re committed to protecting the natural world. From citrus groves to coastal seaweed farms, we care about how our hydrocolloids are made and the communities that make them. This needs supply to be dependable; long-term ingredient availability, traceability and clarity around origin are the foundations of every initiative we build, and every ingredient we produce.
Our pectin is derived from citrus peels, a by-product of the juice industry. We designed every part of our pectin process to focus on circularity. We utilize renewable energy sources like biogas, biomass and hydroelectric power in our operations; water from processing is recycled as fertigation for local agricultural farms. Finally, the leftover citrus peel is turned into animal feed or renewable biogas. We give back to nature what it has given to us.
We’ve been committed to sustainable seaweed sourcing for carrageenan for decades. In Zanzibar in the 1990s, we built supply chain transparency programs, supported sustainable aquaculture practices and invested in local infrastructure. Since then, around 25,000 people have joined our seaweed farming supply chain, 85% of them women. Our Zanzibar partner, ZANEA Seaweed Company, now holds B Corp Certification.
Because the ingredients for a better world start with how we choose to source them.
Combining performance with sustainability, find out more about how our innovative hydrocolloids and market-leading expertise can help overcome your challenges today.