Happy Monday morning!<\/p>\n
There are a couple of company announcements that I\u2019ve heard on the bio-surfactants market but we\u2019ll focus on this recent announcement from BASF who is very familiar with this market given its broad range of oleochemical-based surfactant products as well as its sugar surfactant, alkypolyglucosides (APG\u00ae).<\/p>\n
BASF recently signed two partnership agreements to expand its global leading position in the bio-based surfactants and actives market.\u00a0 BASF established a strategic alliance including an equity stake with Allied Carbon Solutions Co. (ACS) Ltd., a commercial provider of surfactants from biomass based in Japan, making BASF the single-largest shareholder. It further entails an exclusive technology cooperation, commercial agreement and product development for sophorolipids, one class of glycolipids, to address the ever-increasing needs of consumers for sustainable, natural and bio-degradable ingredients and actives. The partners did not disclose any financial details of the investment.<\/p>\n
BASF has already developed a novel sophorolipid-based ingredient produced via fermentation technology in collaboration with ACS, which was launched it in the Asian market under the brand name BioToLife\u2122 in the second quarter of 2020. While the first product is already available, ACS and BASF will deepen the collaboration with the focus to develop a range of formulations based on sophorolipids with targeted performance.<\/p>\n
BASF also established a strategic technology cooperation with Holiferm Ltd. based in the UK to develop a state-of-the-art production process for bio-surfactant products. BASF establishes an exclusive cooperation to focus on developing different glycolipids outside of sophorolipids for Personal and Home Care as well as Industrial Formulators applications.<\/p>\n
I will write more market updates about glycolipids in Tecnon OrbiChem\u2019s Bio-Materials April issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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