18-19 Nov, 2015 - Sao Paulo, BRAZIL
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Naturex, a global leader in specialty plant-based natural ingredients, has announced the launch of Sapnov™, a natural foaming agent – extracted from quillaia in Chile, adding to its existing list of naturally sourced ingredients.
This minimally processed surfactant meets the demand for both sulphate-free, mild surfactants and biodegradable ingredients in finished products.
With this new announcement, Naturex is further expanding its foothold in South America – especially in Chile. Last year, the company acquired Chile Botanics and its factory in Linares. This year the company has announced opening of a sales office in Santiago, Chile.
Naturex is keen to expand its presence in Latin America with Chile as its main market, given that the country has one of the highest GDPs per capita in Latin America and has the most free-trade agreements in the world. This coupled with Chile’s natural environment that opens up opportunities for a plant-based ingredients producer like Naturex. In fact Naturex is already sourcing Quillaja saponaria, a native tree rich in saponins from the Chilean forest.
It has collaborated with local authorities, to extract quillaia with different levels of purity in a sustainable way. After the Chile Botanics acquisition, Naturex has been trying to upgrade the quillaia extraction and purification facilities, which are based near quillaia harvesting areas in south Chile.
Sapnov™ is a non-ionic and water soluble surfactant. The ingredient is miscible with classical solvents, works in a wide range of pH and shows good stability even at high salt concentrations. It is 100% natural and the extract has other proven benefits that cannot be found in synthetic surfactants.
4th South America Surfactants HPC Markets on 18-19 November, 2015 in Sao Paulo will discuss natural surfactants plus more in greater detail.
Contact Ms. Grace Oh at grace@cmtsp.com.sg or call +65 6346 9147 for more information.
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